John McCain Wearing Baby Calves
 Tuesday, August 5th, 2008  by Connie T.

Isabel Wilkinson of the Huffington Post is one smart writer, with quite the eye for details. Details like John McCain's $520 black leather Ferragamo shoes.

That's right - in an article in the Huff Po last week, Wilkinson pointed out that John McCain has been making every campaign stop recently wearing a pair of calfskin loafers with silver Gancini buckles from Italy. "What better way to show his American pride," Wilkinson wrote, "Than to tour the country in Italian leather?"

Crooks and Liars wisely compares this to John Edwards' $400 haircuts, and how that story was fodder for Republicans everywhere, printed multiple times in the Washington Post and joked about from FOX to CNN and beyond.

I was talking to a friend earlier who summarized the underlying theme of the Republican push against Barack Obama in four words: "He's not like you"...If so, I have a message for every American family who can't imagine spending $520 for a pair of loafers: John McCain isn't like you, either.

[And] put it this way - if Barack Obama paid $520 for a pair of Italian loafers, every voter in America would know about it. Every media outlet would report it and every Republican would talk about it.

Not only that, but PETA is putting the spotlight on Obama over a dog that isn't even had yet, while McCain is literally walking on baby cows.

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