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Posted on Aug 25, 2008
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Madonna drama: Barack Obama clearly ranks higher than John McCain in Madonna’s book.

Madonna is no John McCain fan, and the feeling’s definitely mutual. The newly minted quinquagenarian icon is once again playing the provocateur on her latest tour, taking aim at McCain by making some undesirable comparisons between the GOP’s presumptive nominee and certain nefarious world leaders from past and present. There’s clearly only one way to settle this dispute: Gaultier cone bras at dawn.


Times Online:

The campaign of John McCain went head-to-head with Madonna today after the 50-year-old pop diva appeared to compare the Republican candidate to Hitler and Robert Mugabe.

Madonna, who kicked off her “Sticky and Sweet” world tour at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff yesterday, made the swipe during a performance of Get Stupid, when Mr McCain’s image was flashed up alongside images of the Führer and Zimbabwean dictator, as well as destruction and global warming.

In a none-too-subtle contrast, Barack Obama was bracketed in a subsequent sequence alongside Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon and Al Gore.

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By Morgan, August 31, 2008 at 3:25 pm Link to this comment
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I find it absolutely baffling that McCain has had only one brief meeting with Palin before choosing her as his running mate. This was clearly a last minute decision and a knee jerk reaction to the Obama attention from the night before. This is an irresponsible and reckless decision, he hardly even knows her. He’s selection shows me what type of president he will be, decisions will not be made with careful consideration and diplomacy but instead, quick gut reactions will lead the way. Listen, I’m not undermining Palin’s accomplishments, I congratulate her on her historic achievement. However McCain is simply using her as a chess pawn.

I also don’t agree with her policies and views:

1. She is pro-war.
2. She is opposed to reproductive rights for women.
3. She doesn’t believe in global warming.
4. She supports big oil and wherever they chose to drill.
5. She’s a lifetime member of the NRA.
6. She’s opposed a clean water initiative.
7. She sued the federal gov. for listing polar bears as an endangered species (why? cause you can’t drill for oil when animals are occupying the land) she’s against wildlife protection.

…It’s true they would’ve never selected her, if she were a man, it’s pretty insulting to think a position was given to you simply due to your gender…what a gimmick.

Obama/Biden 08

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By Purple Girl, August 30, 2008 at 5:09 pm Link to this comment

Obama has brought “Power to the People” into the 21st Century
We’re Still fighting John, but we are finally making gains!

Still can ‘Imagine’

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By Kurt, August 29, 2008 at 11:20 am Link to this comment
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Ok folks: Fosse, Fosse, Fosse

But, seriously folks Madonna might have had better PR adopting elements adopting elements from the first Star Wars movie Episode 3 “A New Hope.”  Obama is Luke, Joe Biden is Hans Solo, McCain represents the Emperor, and Cheney is Darth Vader. Ok, the analogy is nor perfect, but Obama does have to destroy the “evil empire” built by Cheney for McCain (who has sold himself out to the Dark Side ages ago).

It’s not a perfect analogy but is more interesting than being hit over the head with a blunt axe of WWII which we have been over and over and over.

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By KPinSEA, August 26, 2008 at 7:35 am Link to this comment

Much like McCain, Madonna was more interesting in 2000 and just seems tiresome and contrived in 2008.

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By Spartan, August 25, 2008 at 11:28 pm Link to this comment
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In this election dumb celebrity endoresements can hurt. And “Truth Dig” highlighting this performers ANTICS, because that is what they are, Antics,or a Streisand quote, albeit allright,  really doesn’t help the candidate.

Its more interesting to hear THE CANDIDATES and what Icons they like. Very Similar tastes, in that
Obama likes Sinatra and McCain likes Linda Ronstadt. They both like meaningful pop culture.
Its this stuff that matters, not what the celebrities think. Madonna is just preaching to the choir, that’s all.

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By CJ, August 25, 2008 at 9:14 pm Link to this comment

“Sticky and Sweet,” huh? Hmm…

I can’t agree that McCain is on a par with Bob Mugabe. I’m fairly sure that the Gautelier-cone-braed one doesn’t likely know one way or da other, most especially when the same claims that Obama is on a par with Gandhi, or that Al Gore is on a par with Gandhi, or that John Lennon was on a par with Gandhi. We don’t know about Obama, while Gore’s a nice fella and Lennon an actual cultural icon.

Speaking of getting stupid. Having by now become a quan…what is it? I have to look again for spelling…ah, sorry, quin…qua…genarian (I think I got it), that that fact in and of itself seems not to have aided and abetted the pointy-braed one with respect to knowledge of much more than pointy bras. McCain’s probably not quite on a par with die Fuhrer either. Albeit, America has been drifting right for some decades, not only thanks to cons and neo-cons.

I’m down with pointy-bra look, though: I have a terrific little magnetized postcard thing here depicting Betty Page in one the likes of which Madonna never even contemplated. Seriously, Betty’s dressed to kill in this photo. Plus Betty was a lot more pointy of mind back when she originated what Madonna has long been parroting.

Betty the original never got stupid, much less…well, you know…

Otherwise, Madonna appears here to be engaged in imitating Liza Minelli’s version of Sally Bowles in Bob Fosse’s film version of 1930’s-Berlin “Cabaret.”

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