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McCain's Web Site: Golf Gear Forever!
John McCain is standing firm on his controversial platform -- of golf gear for all!
As you may have heard, the McCain camp was subjected to blogospheric ridicule last week over their Web site's tab layout, which for some strange reason included "Golf Gear" alongside headings like "Decision Center" and "Obama & Iraq."
The McCain camp has now revised their site. But did they get rid of the "Golf Gear"? Nope. In this case, it turned out "Obama & Iraq" was the dead wood:
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Seems like there could be some "who's the real elitist during a recession" hay to be made here...
June 10, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is there a more elitist hobby/sport?
June 10, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
polo, yatch, ...
June 10, 2008 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, Golf is right in league with those hobby/sports.
June 10, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fox hunting, corporate takeovers.
June 10, 2008 4:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dang it!
June 11, 2008 10:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
You have *got* to be kidding me....
June 10, 2008 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if McCain sells ballwashers similar to the ones he used on Bush all these years...
June 10, 2008 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bwahahahaha!
Good one.
June 10, 2008 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, man! That's funny!
June 10, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Elitist.
June 10, 2008 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
ah, the irony of a one line of 'elitist' while sporting a hand crafted cappichino on your avatar. If you don't get the irony, then you don't deserve not being labled an 'elitist' yourself!
June 10, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ummmm, looks like a macchiato to me, and a nice one at that - I used to drink them all the time when I worked as a bike messenger because they were the cheapest thing on the menu, along with Americanos, and you can drink em real fast. Try not to buy into the right wing line that good coffee/espresso is elitist, it does not make sense.
June 10, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
my avatar is meant to be snark, but I guess that's too much for some.
June 10, 2008 5:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, really, Morrigan, that's pretty dim.
June 11, 2008 2:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Elititleist
June 10, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I dunno, I think he made the right choice here. 60% of Americans think the Iraq War should never have been fought. On the other hand, everyone loves golf, right?
June 10, 2008 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Golf has got to be the world's most boring game, but, hey, it's OK with me if you like it.
Expand your horizons, try archery.
June 10, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obviously my snark was too subtle.
And, Archery??!! Another sport for the masses!
June 10, 2008 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
If it's good enough for Robin Hood....
June 10, 2008 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can buy some of this with the money I save from the gas tax holiday! Thank you, John McCain!
June 10, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Smurfette, you gets it right again. On the money.
June 11, 2008 1:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain golf gear now being marketed under his
brand name: A-Hole In One.
http://www.mrbagelproductions.com/images/ahole_red.gif
June 10, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sure it stayed on his site because McAnus knows how he'll be spending most of his time after this November, and he's hoping for some free stuff in exchange for the promotion.
June 10, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's on his site and staying there because he has been broke since last Summer. The golf gear is probably one of his largest fund raisers.
Maybe that Senate seat in Arizona is just bad luck for Presidential aspirants.
June 10, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
FORE get about it! Mclame....imagine if this was your priority for supporting McShameless
June 10, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain = Judge Smails.
"Gambling is illegal at Bushwood sir, and I never slice."
June 10, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Loved your theme song for that one.
June 10, 2008 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's one of my classics, for sure.
Obama should use it on election night, right after the networks call for it him and he shouts, "Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid!" from the podium.
June 10, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Noonan! Noonan!"
June 10, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hated Caddyshack 2 (worst sequel ever?), esp. compared to the original, but the old guys asleep in the clubhouse that Chevy Chase kept messing with remind me of your median McCain supporter. This should appeal to that demographic.
June 10, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Worst sequal ever? What about Highlander 2? Or any of the new Star Wars prequals? Or Las Vegas Vacation?
;)
June 10, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
...or Rocky III?
June 10, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
or George W. Bush? :-O
June 10, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I imagine the commissions he gets from the sales are a key element of his fund raising strategy.
June 10, 2008 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's obviously selling golf gear to separate himself from Bush, who gave up golf to honor the noble sacrifice of the fallen US soldiers in Iraq.
McCain, in contrast, glorifies golf as a worthy pastime for US soldiers during the next 100 years of american occupation in Iraq.
June 10, 2008 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Relevant editorial cartoon: click the 3rd icon from the bottom left (i.e. "Casualties of War"):
http://www.startribune.com/galleries/18485284.html?location_refer=Bios
June 10, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Swing em home Johhny, swing em home...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukUbOCa8L4k
June 10, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Golf...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz
June 10, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR GOLFERS!!
June 10, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaketh, Plagiarist Reformulator Yoda.
June 10, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent way for McCain to lock in the all important Country Club Vote. (like there's a snowball's chance they'd vote for Obama -- they'd probably turn him down for membership)
June 10, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
"McCain came out this week with a list of 20 possible running mates. He would not reveal the names of all of them, but he said they all share certain traits, like knowing CPR. He said he wants someone who is ready take over on day two." --Bill Maher
June 10, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain laughs about lobbyists:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/
It's time to start scooping out the Republican blogs to see what they say.
June 10, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hawking shoddy merchandise on their website? What's next--selling pencils on street corners?
June 10, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
You owe me a new key board....
{still laughing}
June 11, 2008 1:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does Grampy McSame even play golf?
June 10, 2008 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
The way McCain walks, my guess is that if he does play, he's at least a 40 handicap.
June 10, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain still refers to going out for dinner as "catching the Early Pterosaur Special".
June 10, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
BWHAHAHA!
June 10, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
George Carlin, Take it Away
June 10, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fore a while I was concerned that the Democrats had missed the opportunity to club McCain on his gaffs earlier this year while their nomination race seemed stuck on the back nine. Of course in a stroke of insight I realized that no matter how you slice it, he is a bottomless hole in one gaff after another.
For instance take the puck greens of the backdrop on that rough speech last Tuesday. Maybe a little birdie told him it was a good choice, but that was enough to drive anyone insane. Then again if you believed his bag of lies, you deserved to be carted off to spend you time puttering around an asylum.
June 10, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
hmm . . . the chance to smack a golf ball with "McCain" written all over it . . .
might be priceless . . .
June 10, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, some cred here for ripping off obama again. Obama's 'urban' gear is selling like hot cakes and he's getting a lot of campaign cash that way. We'll McSame couldn't do exactly that (not a lot of hip people want McCain gear) so go to his strength, the country club set...
June 10, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
"McCain Golf" has strange rules - once you put the ball in the hole, you never take it out for 100 years. Also, if you don't like your first Golfing Partner, you can arbitrarily get rid of them, play the field for several holes, then get one that is 15 years younger by the 10th Hole.
June 10, 2008 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anybody who has ever played at a municipal course knows damn well that golf does not have to be elitist.
June 10, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny, I seem to remember our esteemed president giving up golf so he can be respectful to our troops and war dead. Guess McCain didn't get that e-mail.
June 10, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Liberal democrats golf too, some of us anyway. We just don't buy golf gear from our politicians.
June 10, 2008 5:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Even broke and non-elitist liberal democrats--weekday afternoon rates at the muni are great for us dirty hippies.
June 10, 2008 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's kind of funny - cause Bush quit Golf because of the War.
No little old war is gonna stop mcSame from golfing and selling golf stuff.
June 10, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good Point! I wonder why McCain hates the troops?
June 10, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
----and along with these choice items is a free tank of oxygen, two tubes of Poligrip,and a walking cane.
----is there any way this man isn't pathetic?
June 10, 2008 6:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe the know that McShame will be playing a lot of golf after the election.
June 10, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
no mulligans for McCain! http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/fact-check/
June 10, 2008 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm curious.. has anyone ordered one of these golf packs? I would love to know where they're made.
June 10, 2008 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
well played ghost boy.
I think some here may have thought it a typo.
June 10, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
some hilarious comments, everybody who's not a concern or apathy troll!
my take on the golf gear is that it's a business run by one of his lobbyist campaign honchos who's merely taking advantage of another McCain 'bidness' opportunity
can anybody find out which one?
June 10, 2008 8:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Quote from my 7-year-old son:
"John McCain Golf Gear? Now that's just stupid!"
June 10, 2008 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can't. Stop. Laughing.
A little Caddyshack is needed to counter McCain-
"Be the ball, Barack".
June 10, 2008 11:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Re Josh's 11:35pm post on the homepage:
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NOT JUST FOR GOLF June 10, 2008
Reviewer: Walter San Miguel from Miami Lakes, FL United States
This is just the thing for strolling around
the Baghdad Market with 100 soldiers; 2
Blackhawks; and 3 Apache gunships, and
then telling us that Baghdad is safe !!!!!!
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Iraq Forever!!! June 10, 2008
Reviewer: Mitt Romney from Boston, MA United States
I thought that I would give this McBush golf set to Dad for Father's Day as a way to commemorate his leaving Mom for the younger, blonder, much richer woman!!
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Quality! June 10, 2008
Reviewer: Jack Abramoff from Washington, DC United States
Yep, good 'ol Chinese Quality! Just like we used to make in 'Merica
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Some nice snark there. :-)
June 11, 2008 1:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
How is it that McCain can say that Obama doesn't relate to working class Americans?
I mean, just who is the elitist here?
June 11, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
My favorite thing about the "Father's Day McCain Golf Pack" is that it "Usually Ships in 2 to 3 Weeks".
So if you still haven't decided what to get Dad...
June 11, 2008 1:53 PM | Reply | Permalink