Slog - Comments on For Those Who are Pretending... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending that it's 1960, and Obama, like Kennedy, is about to usher in a jump cut in history, let's check in to see what was on the cover of Time this very week in 1960. It was Pat Nixon, wife of VP and GOP Pesidential hopeful Richard Nixon. That is all.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:15:52 -0800 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:43:57 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Tom Verlaine So is Cindy McCain going to be on the cover of next week's Stranger?

]]> Tom Verlaine http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950169 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950169 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:24:09 -0800 Comment by Nat No, Joan Allen will.

]]> Nat http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950171 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950171 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:25:55 -0800 Comment by Jeff So where is her good Republican cloth coat?

]]> Jeff http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950172 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950172 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:26:01 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Jesus, did she steal that make-up off Shakira's face?

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950177 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950177 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:32:21 -0800 Comment by Richard Hell How about Vicki Iseman wearing a suit jacket made out of bacon and a pornographic tie, the better to repel The Terrorists?

Offer of humor only applicable to those who began reading the Stranger before 9/11. Void where irony is prohibited.

]]> Richard Hell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950178 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950178 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:32:50 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Pat Nixon was not an attractive woman, but that's a TERRIBLE picture of her.

Does this mean that Obama's going to get elected, but assassinated in 2011, and John McCain is going to be elected in 2016 and 2020, and be forced out of office in disgrace in 2022 (when he will be 86 years old)?

I love historical parallels, they're always so spot on.

Whatever happened to Karl Rove's idea that Bush is McKinley, which would perhaps mean that Obama is who? Teddy Roosevelt?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950179 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950179 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:33:07 -0800 Comment by Edith Prickley Ronald Wilson Reagan = Insane Anglo Warlord = 666. OMG we're all gonna die!!!

]]> Edith Prickley http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950183 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950183 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:40:55 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle TIME?

Does anyone read that anymore?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950194 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950194 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:51:36 -0800 Comment by Wolf That's not a PICTURE of Pat Nixon, it's a painting. Obviously heavily influenced by June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) minus the pearls.

And jesus, is that really McCain's wife? She's...mannequinish.

]]> Wolf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950195 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950195 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:54:59 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Um, paintings are pictures. And Pat's pearls are clipped to her earlobes. All Republican Wives are required by law to wear pearls.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950205 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950205 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:04:31 -0800 Comment by brappy Don't forget that Time in the 1960s, the end of the Henry Luce era, reflected not so much the state of the country, but the state of things that Luce cared about.

]]> brappy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950206 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950206 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:06:23 -0800 Comment by Tizzle That's McCain's wife? She's pretty.

]]> Tizzle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950207 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950207 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:06:39 -0800 Comment by elenchos I don't think you have to be all that starry-eyed to anticipate that when Bush leaves the White House and Obama enters, it will be a major turning point. If Obama is nothing more than a competent, unremarkable president, that in itself will a radical enough change to be a jump cut indeed.

But who am I to question the oracle that is Josh Feit's collection of old Time magazines.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950210 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950210 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:11:51 -0800 Comment by Cat in Chicago I thought this was a Mudede post at first.

]]> Cat in Chicago http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950212 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950212 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:14:40 -0800 Comment by unPC "Obama, like Kennedy, is about to usher in a jump cut in history,"

Nice to know the future now, before it happens.

And Obama is strengthened if we just say Obama is Obama instead of saying he's like JFK.

Why diminish him by tying him to a pill popping bumbling militarist like JFK, whose dady bought his way into office very narrowly, and whose administration saw the Berlin wall go up, the missile bases in Cuba go in, who let the CIA run wild with a coup against Diem and the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and whose whole campaign was based on fear mongering that Ike/Nixon had left us without ENOUGH nuclear missles?

]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950259 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950259 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:17:26 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Apparently, unPC, you missed the title of this post.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950275 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950275 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:47:24 -0800 Comment by snort Cindy McCain.

Hot, and owns a beer distributorship.

Sign me up.

]]> snort http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950278 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950278 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:51:31 -0800 Comment by V I think Obama wins.

A few days ago I decided to check out McCain's website, and the "About Cindy" page, which is mostly about the charities she started (and then stole drugs from) with daddy's money, has RECIPES as its main feature. For things like homemade guacamole, which is mostly just mashed avocadoes, and a whole-wheat pasta dish.

Ugh. I hope our next first lady is more representative of a modern woman. I want our daughters to see something in her worth aspiring to-- something besides wealth and recipes.

]]> V http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950287 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950287 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:01:42 -0800 Comment by catalina vel-duray I don't think this is anything like 1960: People are much fatter now, and the furniture is ugly.

]]> catalina vel-duray http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950293 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950293 History Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:17:38 -0800 Comment by Andrew Yeah I'm with Fnarf, John McCain won't be elected 8 years later, considering he's 10,000 years old.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950465 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950465 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:30:55 -0800 Comment by M'thew Pat Nixon stares wistfully out of the window. Mrs. McCain has a manic grin.

Times have changed...

]]> M'thew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950472 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950472 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:24:06 -0800 Comment by Medicine Man Thanks Feit. Its always handy to have yet another rebuttal to the emotional Obama supporter, who is clearly voting against Clinton out of messianic fervour. Yuk yuk yuk.

While it is worth serving up a reality salad to the more starry eyed of BHO's supporters, I would like to reiterate that the primaries haven't turned out the way they have purely due to wild Obamamaniacs. I'm sure the constant suggestions from the HRC camp that Barrack is not a candidate worth supporting on substantive grounds have not helped her candidacy. In fact, its all just a bit paternalistic and insulting.

]]> Medicine Man http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950479 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950479 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:29:31 -0800 Comment by alan Oh, GOD, those eyes...those cold, dead eyes. They say I'M COMING TO EAT YOUR BABIES.

]]> alan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950484 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950484 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:55:09 -0800 Comment by SDizzle OH EM GEE McCain's wife looks like a man.

]]> SDizzle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950506 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950506 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:39:32 -0800 Comment by raindrop I'd rather have Cindy as our next first lady than that bash-America-first Michelle.

]]> raindrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950515 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950515 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:17:25 -0800 Comment by infrequent @8. i don't read it, but only because i don't have time anymore.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950545 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950545 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:26:33 -0800 Comment by Tlazolteotl Cindy Lou McWho, stealing drugs to kill the pain of her lonliness.....

]]> Tlazolteotl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950553 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950553 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:31:00 -0800 Comment by max solomon raindrop you are so droll!

you do know she's an ADULTRESS & a PILL-POPPER, right?

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950570 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950570 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:40:45 -0800 Comment by IS Does McCain's wife host Gay Bingo?

]]> IS http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950686 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950686 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:53:10 -0800 Comment by Guy Debord Is that a secret Illuminati symbol on her lapel or what?

]]> Guy Debord http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950703 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c950703 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:03:58 -0800 Comment by Wolf @11: No, paintings are NOT pictures. Paintings are paintings, photographs are pictures. As someone who's worked in art, I can say there's a difference...a very clear one.

And I'm talking pearls around the neck, not pearls on the ears. Go back and re-watch "Leave It To Beaver." June looked JUST LIKE this, except she always had her pearl necklace (no snide comments) on.

]]> Wolf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c951329 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c951329 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:42:10 -0800 Comment by Wolf Oops, sorry, that should be @10, not @11.

]]> Wolf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c951331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/for_those_who_are_pretending#c951331 History Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:43:57 -0800