I’m sick of this McCain/Obama elitist/celebrity nonsense .  It needs to end.

They’re running in a giant popularity contest for God’s sake, it’s important to be famous.

Just ask Bob Barr .

Anyway, saw this on the Onion:

"I will veto every beer."  That’s going to hurt him in the Red States.

Now, to be fair to politicians (ha!), they’ve got to answer a lot of stupid questions along the campaign trail.  I remember when they asked 9/11 Rudy Giuliani about how much a gallon of milk was and he had no idea.  Trivial "gotcha" questions are annoying and don’t really deal with issues.

But this report from Politico is mindboggling.  Apparently, McCain doesn’t know how many houses he owns.  That’s a rough life.

So McCain doesn’t know that he owns 7 houses worth $13 million dollars .

Yawn.

Big deal.

Everyone knows that the media is blowing this way out of proportion.  John McCain has always claimed his expertise is on foreign policy.  This is so obviously a domestic matter.

Breaking news! John McCain (donate here) has picked Palin as his VP.

This is a brave choice.  He was never the most popular of the Pythons, and spent most of his time in the shadow of John Cleese and Eric Idle.  Though, to some extent, I always did prefer him over Idle.

Here are some of Palin’s greatest achievements:
Arguing government against a King:

Palin debating Biden:

Years of economic experience:

In any event, I’m looking forward to seeing his new BBC documentary, Around the US with an Old Fart, once this election is over.  Though I don’t think he’s actually allowed to run for VP, seeing as he wasn’t born in the US.  Gilliam would have been an acceptable choice.

Oh well, live and learn.