More Celebrity Endorsements

We've heard about Chuck Norris and Huckabee teaming up before, but did you hear about Jon Voight and, yes, Wilford Brimley?

Best Estranged Relative of Angelina Jolie?

The winner is Jon Voight, backing Rudy Giuliani.

"We need Rudy Giuliani," Voight can be heard cheering alongside Rudy on the trail.

Best Portly Retireee with a big mustache?

The winner is Wilfred Brimley, who is backing John McCain.

"Chuck Norris is a pal of mine. He's a good guy," Brimley recently told McCain supporters. "But he's not real smart!" Sen. John McCain jumped in.

Yes, that's right, the star of Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies and the star of commercials that come on during the Price is Right have finally thrown their support behind some presidential hopefuls!

Make sure you watch the video from ABC News while you're checking out that story.

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What reality show would Clinton rather be on?

According to this article from the Associated Press, Hillary Clinton said she would rather be on "Dancing with the Stars" than "American Idol" on the Tyra Banks show.

"In my dreams I would be on 'America's Next Top Model' but in reality I would have to choose my limited talents and of them dancing is better than singing," Clinton said Monday during a taping of "The Tyra Banks Show." "You do not want me to sing."

That was an apparent reference to her off-key rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," which has made the rounds on YouTube.
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She even suggested a nationwide contest, "like a reality show," for a title for her husband, former President Clinton, should she win the nomination and be elected the nation's first female president.

"Here are some of the things that have been suggested, like 'First Mate,'" Hillary Clinton said. "His Scottish friends say 'First Laddy,' but we need ideas. I'll just keep calling him Bill."

Asked whether she does any of a number of popular dances, including hip-hop, Clinton said she'd heard of them and that they were "variations of what I did like 30, 40 years ago."

I know that "America's Next Top Model" is Tyra's show, but why even bring it up as an option for her?

Romney hoping his name will get him a win

According to CBS News, Mitt Romney is hoping that his last name will get him a win in Michigan today.

"I don’t know how Democrats will vote in a Republican primary,” Romney said to reporters at the North American International Auto Show. “That's not something I’m terribly used to. I expect there will be some Democrats who say, ‘Gosh, that Romney fellah, isn't he related to George Romney, and didn't George Romney do a lot to try and help our state?' Maybe I can get some of those votes.”
Many voters in tomorrow’s primary will be too young to remember Romney’s father, who served as governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, but his name still resonates here.
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“I've had a foreign car or two in the mix over the years,” Romney added. “I must admit I prefer American-made cars for a lot of reasons.”

Of course you prefer American-made cars. You're at the North American International Auto Show! I'm sure Canada and Mexico aren't making an appearance.

Presidential hopeful's coffee preferences

It's been a little while, but here's a quick one about what kind of coffee they like:

DEMOCRATS:

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: Sometimes black, sometimes with cream

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards: Doesn't drink it

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama: Black, but rarely drinks it

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: Cream

REPUBLICANS:

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani: Splenda, Sweet'n Low or Equal, whichever is available

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: Splenda

Arizona Sen. John McCain: Cappuccino or coffee with cream and sugar

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney: Doesn't drink it, has been known to have hot chocolate

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson: Cream

The full article from the Associated Press. Yes. AP wrote this bullshit.

Also, I found out that over in Europe they care about bullshit issues on the American campaign trail, like Oprah endorsing Obama, or something Huckabee said 20 years ago.

YouTube Debates

The Republican YouTube debates just happened recently. Here are some highlights:





Here's all of them from YouTube.

Candidates eating habits on the road

The New York Times posted a fantastic bullshit 2-page article about what the candidates are eating on the campaign trail, and how that should matter to us. Here's some snippets:

The Democratic contenders include Gov. Bill Richardson, a veteran of the Atkins and liquid diets who wears a double chin despite daily workouts. Senator Barack Obama, who was chubby as a child, refers to himself as skinny in speeches and barely touches fatty foods — except at events like the Iowa State Fair, where he ate caramel corn, pork and a corn dog for the cameras. At one campaign event, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said she prayed to God to help her lose weight.

On the Republican side, there is Mike Huckabee, a self-described “recovering food addict” who lost 110 pounds a few years ago. Rudolph W. Giuliani and Fred D. Thompson are on diets imposed by their wives. Mitt Romney is so vigilant about nutrition that he eats the same thing every day: his wife’s granola for breakfast, a chicken or turkey sandwich for lunch, and pasta, fish or chicken for dinner.
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The candidates are “for all intents and purposes out of control of their diets,” said Walter Scheib, former White House chef to the Clintons and the Bushes. Many big events on the preprimary calendar — the Harkin Steak Fry in Iowa; the Clyburn Fish Fry in South Carolina; the Iowa State Fair, an everything-fry — seem as likely to produce heart attacks as votes.

Those wanting to be president must never, ever refuse or fumble the local specialties, lest they repeat the sins of John Kerry (dismissed as effete when he ordered a Philly cheese steak with Swiss in 2004) or Gerald R. Ford (on a 1976 swing through Texas, he bit into a tamale with the corn husk still on).
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Mr. Huckabee also eats lightly, sticking largely to salads, protein bars and steamed vegetables. But if a campaign trip he took this month is any guide, his mind tends to wander into more dangerous nutritional territory. At a metal factory in Cedar Falls, Iowa, he stared as a worker punched out a flat disc. “Put a little pepperoni and cheese on that, and you’re made,” he observed. One machine, he said, looked like a grill for rib-eye steaks.

Mr. Huckabee, once so overweight as governor of Arkansas that a chair collapsed under him at a meeting, said in an interview that obesity could put politicians at a disadvantage.

“If you’re really overweight, some people just look at you and immediately sort of write you off,” he said. “They just assume you’re undisciplined.”
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For a group whose problem can often be too much food, the candidates can also be a surprisingly hungry bunch. At breakfast meetings, luncheons and dinner banquets, they are often too busy speaking, shaking hands and signing autographs to eat.

“Very rarely do you get the occasion that you’re sitting down and eating a meal, and even if you are, you’re answering questions,” said Ryan Drajewicz, the assistant responsible for all moment-to-moment needs of Senator Christopher J. Dodd, another of the Democratic contenders.
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The candidates do most of their real eating behind the scenes, and aside from catered meals on private jets, it is a fairly grim culinary affair, an endless procession of grilled chicken on wilted iceberg lettuce and soggy French fries, gobbled between events and in moving vehicles, supplemented by emergency stashes of power bars. When the politicians do get to eat sit-down dinners privately, it is often at 9:30 or 10.

No wonder Mr. Giuliani has sometimes seemed ravenous on the trail. At a stop in Greenfield, Iowa, this summer, he asked photographers to put down their cameras so he could eat undisturbed. And on a springtime stop at a pizzeria in Des Moines, he traveled from table to table of voters, filching some of their food as he went.

The full article, plus a video, is from the New York Times.

Candidates show of their comedy skills in online videos

When it comes to presidents, I want one that's absolutely HILARIOUS! Well, that's what a few news articles are telling me. The first is about Mike Gravel, a Democratic candidate who's barely been seen. He starred in, what I can only assume to be, a knee-slappin' side-splittin' video. Just check out his acting skills! Fantastic!


Gravel isn't the only one having fun online! Bill Clinton is showing off his comedic acting skills for his wife's videos. Here's one:

Hehe. COCKusing! HAH! I have nothing witty to say here.

Also, caucusing sounds like more work than I'd go through.