Today, for the first time ever, I heard an Obama ad on the radio. WTF? Illinois is solidly pro-Obama, right?

Obama buys a half hour of network primetime:

You know McCain will follow suit. The thing is, even reading the teleprompter, he's twitchy and creepy. I think it'll turn people off.

It's got to be hard to be old and pasty white and twitchy and be compared to Obama, who frankly has got it going on.

Chatty!co-worker, who is quite the clotheshorse (some might even say "dandy"), pointed out that McCain's suit for the town hall debate was really poorly fitted, which made him look dumpier and shorter. It wasn't until McCain and Obama shook hands that I realized that McCain isn't a whole lot shorter than Obama.

My point is that I don't care if she doesn't care.

Ah, gotcha. I just looked at the article and judging by the series of pictures in there, it's kind of like media revenge for keeping her so sequestered for so long.

Obama buys a half hour of network primetime:

Also impressive is how fast the comments achieve Godwin's law.

Today, for the first time ever, I heard an Obama ad on the radio. WTF? Illinois is solidly pro-Obama, right?

Indiana is a toss-up state. He's got a huge organization there.

It wasn't until McCain and Obama shook hands that I realized that McCain isn't a whole lot shorter than Obama.

Isn't he, though? I saw something saying he was the shortest major candidate since Dukakis.

Randomly, I just looked up my minion's birthday, and she was born in 1985. Christ -- no wonder she doesn't know anything!

Also impressive is how fast the comments achieve Godwin's law.

Yeah, because Hitler was always buying half-hours of primetime....

Today, for the first time ever, I heard an Obama ad on the radio. WTF? Illinois is solidly pro-Obama, right?

Me, too! I was equally surprised to hear it. The only thing I could figure is that the station I heard it on, WGN, is picked up across the Midwest, including in WI and IN, so they figured they'd get a three-fer with that particular station.

Today, for the first time ever, I heard an Obama ad on the radio. WTF? Illinois is solidly pro-Obama, right?

There have been television ads for him here in very blue Maryland (on Bravo mostly, I don't know if because that's where they are running mostly or because that's the station I watch most often).

It wasn't until McCain and Obama shook hands that I realized that McCain isn't a whole lot shorter than Obama.

I thought McCain was like 5'7" and Obama was 6'1"?

There was a guide to presidential candidate heights and weights going around this week but I can't remember from where.

A random question for y'all--now that I'm working at B&N part-time and have to ask people for their phone numbers at the register (to look up their membership cards), I've noticed that a lot of school-aged kids will give me the 1 before the area code and phone number. I've never heard that from any other demographic.

Is that typical elsewhere in the country?