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7/31/08

John McCain Tries Grocery Shopping

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In an "unscheduled" photo-op campaign moment last Wednesday, John McCain strode the aisles of a Pennsylvania food store - walking the walk of America's everyman. Or perhaps stumbling would be a better word.

In-between lamenting the $4 a gallon price of milk and making small talk with Republican party planted Renee Gould, a young mother who just wants to feed her family (that's actually legit), McCain read nervously from a notecard, a cameraman knocked over a lot of jars of applesauce, and the loudspeaker calling a store staff member blared through his time with reporters.

Doesn't this remind you of when, in 1992, George Bush senior went to a supermarket and "was amazed by the technology" - aka a scanner for products at checkout. The New York Times reported, "Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, assured reporters that he had seen the President in a grocery store. A year or so ago. In Kennebunkport.

Some grocery stores began using electornic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade."

And then in April 2007, when Giuliani was on the campaign trail in Alabama he told reporters, "A gallon of milk is probably about a $1.50, a loaf of bread about a $1.25, $1.30." Right. Good thing our policy makers are really clued in here.
Leah



7/29/08

Hmmm. John and Autry Must Have Been Working Lunch..

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7/24/08

Someone I Know Loves This Trashy Vampire Book

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This is how the book came about:
I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately. For what is essentially a transcript of my dream, please see Chapter 13 ("Confessions") of the book.

Who could it be?





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