There were two schools of folks that John McCain managed to score points with today. (He also scored points with me, I might add, for handling the situation with far more grace and humor than that vehemently anti-gay hypocrite from Alaska Sarah Palin would have).
Basically, Senator McCain became quite excited that he had stepped toward joining the modern world by sending a self-taken picture (with no mirror flash, I might add … he’s way ahead of where I was when I took my first iPic) via his Twitter account. I mean, that’s kind of cute, when you get right down to it. Unfortunately, his parents children never taught him about the consequences of sending pictures out into cyberspace.
From TMZ:
The “Maverick” was just tryin’ to show the world that he could take a pic of himself on his iPhone—when somebody ripped the image from his Twitter page and posted it on “Guys with iPhones”—a website featuring men clutching their phones … and often themselves.
The “Maverick” was just tryin’ to show the world that he could take a pic of himself on his iPhone—when somebody ripped the image from his Twitter page and posted it on “Guys with iPhones”—a website featuring men clutching their phones … and often themselves.
So … becoming technologically savvy? Check. Not freaking out about his image appearing on a “notorious gay porn website”? Check.
You lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates maverick, you!
.JPG)
Even though I think McCain is too soft to be a leader, I think his humility and his pragmatism is to be admired. And he's not a stuck-up prig. I like that about him. Plus, he's a war hero. You can't get better credentials than that. Unless you're a crypto-Marxist cipher with no experience doing anything at all. Apparently that's worth more, these days. ;-)
ReplyDeleteApparently, before the '08 election, John McCain had some unpublicised conversations with Queen Elizabeth II. I guess he came to her majesty with a business proposal, they also discussed McCain's secret presidential plan, some of his unusual spare time activity, and he introduced her majesty to his special friend, who he could easily have found during his spare time hive-raiding. For the record, McCain's succesful opponent also discussed his plan with the Queen. Joel Veitch of rathergood.com in London, managed to get the whole thing on tape (not for kids!).
ReplyDeletewww.rathergood.com/Table/queen