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McCain Campaign Attacks Obama For ... Taking His Shirt Off On A Beach
This, just blasted to reporters by the McCain campaign, has to be one of the oddest attacks ever:
You know you may just be a global celebrity when you get this headline in Reuters, "Obama Takes Shirt Off Again, Goes Body Surfing In Hawaii."
Hard to know what's more bizarre: The fact that this is indeed the Reuters headline, or the fact that the McCain campaign is flogging it.
Talk about a slow news day...
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McCain has a man crush on Obama. It's the only reasonable explanation.
August 15, 2008 10:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sure McCain heard this one at Sturgis: "Show us your tits, John!"
Maybe Obama should have taken a beach stroll ala Nixon at the Cotton Point Whitehouse -suit, tie and dress shoes in the surf. The way real Americans spend a day at the beach.
McCain 08 - He's not that senile; he's insane!
August 16, 2008 1:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does John McCain control anything in his campaign?
August 15, 2008 10:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
He can't even control his bowels.
John McCain: A leader with Depends on!
August 15, 2008 10:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Do Depends come in a swimming model like Pampers? If not, it may explain why we don't see more pictures of McCain in swimwear.
August 15, 2008 10:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Read the article!
August 15, 2008 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not sure why McCain would want to highlight something that only brings the contrast between the candidates in terms of health and vitality into sharp focus. Sure, it's superficial on the "attractiveness" level, but on a rather important "physical ability to serve as President" level, it's just bad for McCain.
August 15, 2008 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
People are hard-wired to look for certain physical traits in leaders. It's why the vast majority of politicians are over six feet tall and are relatively nice-looking people with straight teeth. A photo of McCain lounging pool-side in a tank-top would effectively end his campaign.
Genetics ... can't live with them, can't live without them.
August 15, 2008 11:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
{shiver}
August 15, 2008 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
It would end a lot of things.
August 15, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least Obama can remove his own shirt. McCain can't even change his own depends underwear.
August 15, 2008 10:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
SEX ON A BEACH!
I know all red blooded patriotic queer Americans will join with me in urging John McCain to keep his on
PLEASE GOD
August 15, 2008 10:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Greg,
I agree. Its a slow news cycle indeed.
On the other hand, at least Obama can remove his own shirt. McCain can't even change his own depends underwear.
August 15, 2008 10:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
I actually think that Obama looks better in 2008 than he did in 2006. It looks like he has been working out.
Obama looks great!!!
August 15, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
To be fair, Obama shirtless looked much better than it did last year.
I actually thought it served to underscore how healthy and in shape he was compared to McCain
August 15, 2008 10:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
I am watching to see if how ridiculous our media has become. No sensible journalist should report this except they are morons or political hack
August 15, 2008 10:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
To be fair, its not a new phenomonon. Similar reversions to "Tiger Beat" standards of reporting happened whenever JFK hit the beach.
August 15, 2008 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Where are these topless photos?
August 15, 2008 10:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Right here. I am having a hard time seeing how any of these photos look any different than any other set of family vacation pics.
August 15, 2008 11:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks! Nice to see Barack's campaign is finally taking my advice.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/we-need-a-sexy-president.php#comment-3017054
Can't say Barack's not using every weapon possible to reach the holdout Hillary supporters :)
August 15, 2008 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
DUDE-
WHERE CAN I FIND YOUR AVATAR ART?!?!?!?! I have been googling mercilessly. My wife and I want to make t-shirts on our t-shirt press!
August 15, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
And that one was at BaristaBarry, not mr. kilt wearing guy (no offense, kilt-wearer).
August 15, 2008 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't worry, I understood that you were talking to Ms Berry. Her pic would make a much better t-shirt than would mine.
August 15, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's actually already a t-shirt:
http://www.hotnessfactory.com/store/damnkids
August 15, 2008 12:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for sharing. I just LOVE your avatar. LOL every time.
August 15, 2008 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
What?!!! Obama took his shirt off at the beach?!
What the hell was he thinking?!!!! For god's sake, think about the children!!!
August 15, 2008 10:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, he needed some sun. His tanline stops at his neck!
August 15, 2008 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Reuters headline simply brings into focus one of McCains attack points. So yes, on a slow Friday they add a twig to their celebrity/out of touch bonfire.
And of course every time McCain gets "Obama" and "celebrity" into the same media story it's a McCain win. Even Today'sPravdaMemo helps McCain out on this one.
So let's see:
Crisis in Georgia and McCain talks like Commander in Chief while Hussein plays Putin's ButtBoy in the Hawaiian surf.
Oh yeah, brilliant strategary on Hussein's part!
August 15, 2008 10:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey JTHB, how'd the klan meeting go last night?
August 15, 2008 10:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
"And of course every time McCain gets "Obama" and "celebrity" into the same media story it's a McCain win."
If you are a desperate McCain supporter, hopped up on a lethal combination of Oxycontin and Crystal Meth - Its a win. Otherwise, not so much.
"Oh yeah, brilliant strategary on Hussein's part!"
Hey fucknuts, how many percentage points has McCain's "celebrity" attack moved in his favor? That's what I thought, talk about "brilliant" strategies..
August 15, 2008 11:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Have you seen some of the guys at the beach with their tops off? Ewww. At least Obama looks good doing it, and that makes your garden-variety doughy Young Republican jealous as hell.
August 15, 2008 10:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
That last was just a rhetorical question. At this point, I think we all know why. It just never ceases to amaze me when it's this blatant.
August 15, 2008 10:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
It looks like an assistant to McCain.
August 15, 2008 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
"assist," rather
August 15, 2008 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Reply to this one is easy - McCain would get a headline also if he took off his shirt and body surfed. Of course, the headline might be slightly different...
August 15, 2008 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know, body surfing is such an elitist sport.
It's only practiced by... people with bodies.
August 15, 2008 11:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
he's gone all walt whitman on us. what a maverick!
August 15, 2008 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
it's clear obama doesn't have the manboobs to be president.
August 15, 2008 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
So millions of Americans must be celebraties.... or something.
August 15, 2008 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think that this shows bravery on Obama's part -- what with all of the skin-cancer causing UV rays that leak through the hole in the ozone layer.
Headline: Barack Obama Stands Up To Global Warming
http://thepajamapundit.com/
August 15, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
You do actually understand that the hole in the ozone layer has no connection to the global warming problem, right?
Those are 2 separate atmospheric pollution issues.
August 15, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
We all thought the "Paris-Britney" ad was odd too, and laughed at it. Well, it worked.
Obama's campaign needs to turn this around and say, "So now it's an offense to take off your shirt to swim? John McCain clearly has lost his bearings. Does he speak for his campaign on this line of attack?"
August 15, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it'll be pretty cool to have a buff young president who knows how to bodysurf.
August 15, 2008 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
So I take it there were no sharks?
August 15, 2008 11:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
They're waiting for later in the day 'til after the weekly news cycle ends.
August 15, 2008 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Man alive, I thought that the McCain campaign was scraping the bottom of the barrel with the Paris/Brittney bit, but they really look desperate now. They got nothing...
August 15, 2008 11:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
This might very well work.
August 15, 2008 11:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Gosh, I guess anything is possible, but I have a hard time believing that there is a substantial voting constituency out there that is opposed to men going shirtless at the beach.
August 15, 2008 11:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain offered up his wife in a nude "beauty pageant"...
McCain's campaign is so catty and petty. I don't know how Republicans can't be embarrassed by it's antics.
August 15, 2008 11:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
To quote Garrison Keilor; "Republicans made thier peace with hypocrisy long ago."
If there is one thing the R's have a patent on it is the ability to condemn others for things much less offensive than their own faults and foibles.
All this talk about Obama remiving his shirt at the beach, I wonder what Larry Craig removed in the Minneapolis airport bathroom. And what did Foley remove while in the company of some of those pages?
Hardly compares to a man with his family at the beach removing his shirt.
I agree with some of our other comentors, if Obama and McCain ever took their shirts off on the same stage, McCain's delusionary, manly, warmonger "strengths" would evaporate.
How about a beach volleyball match?
August 18, 2008 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would love to see McCain at the beach, in one of those old timey one piece body suits.
August 15, 2008 11:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
The imagine of that made me spit my coffee all over the screen! LOL!
August 15, 2008 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
:)
August 15, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's obviously got nipple envy. His have been pointing southward since the first Gulf War.
August 15, 2008 11:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
"You know you may just be a global celebrity when you get this headline in Reuters, "Obama Takes Shirt Off Again, Goes Body Surfing In Hawaii.""
Who is this level of fluff an indictment of?
Reuters for dishing substance free crap, or McCain for dwelling on it?
August 15, 2008 11:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
So where's a picture of the emaciated Barack this week? He is the skinniest nominee for his height in the modern era. All that arugula eating, you know.
August 15, 2008 11:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here you go.
August 15, 2008 11:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Holy sheets! He be havin three nipples! Yikes!
Oh, waits... He's from France. Dat be splainin evvything. Nemmermind.
August 15, 2008 11:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good to know the McCain campaign has hired Jeff Foxworthy as a writer.
August 15, 2008 11:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
A man swimming without a shirt on as an issue, we really are a nation of prudes.
August 15, 2008 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain. A president we can depends on. hehe - that's awesome.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to see Barbara Walters interview Cindy McCain and ask her opinion about Barak's topless at the beach pictures?
How would Cindy respond?
August 15, 2008 11:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
He's hot!!
August 15, 2008 11:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
mjeffn, she would also say, not need to wait for viagra to kick in.
August 15, 2008 11:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Jealous much?
August 15, 2008 11:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the funny response from Tommy Vietor: