That’s Right Nate

Emily's shirt can't conceal her weight problem as she celebrates her birthday by devouring a chocolate cake.

This post is going out to Megan McCain or I guess maybe John McCain too.  Megan has been in the news lately because, to put it bluntly, she’s fat.  Recently, in a show of tough love Laura Ingram called her on it teasing “Ok, I was really hoping that I was going to get that role in the Real World, but then I realized that, well, they don’t like plus-sized models. They only like the women who look a certain way. And on this 50th anniversary of Barbie, I really have something to say.”

Megan immediately got defensive, ““It infuriates me,” she said. “I’m a political writer on a blog, and all of a sudden I’m too fat to write?”  She further went on to tell Laura Ingram, “Kiss my fat ass.”  Like Megan, I too am a political writer on a blog and like her father John I too have a fat daughter.  I know how defensive they can get when you suggest that they might want to order something a little less fattening at a restaurant.  Poor Laura Ingram seems to have been caught in the crossfire.  It is just a simple fact that fatties get defensive.

For John McCain it must be very tempting to love Megan like any other child in spite of her overwhelming girth.  The question though is at this time of her life is unconditional love really what Megan needs?   I tried that with my daughter Emily and what I got was a daughter weighing in at 125 pounds at the age of 12 and unlike Megan, Emily has no aspirations of a Hollywood career.  As Megan herself told The View, she has a younger sister.  Is she really setting a good example for her sister?

I especially feel sorry for John McCain who like me has always enjoyed a good fat joke or a political daughter joke.   Who can forget his zinger from the late 90s?  “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”  I hope that he’ll have some equally cutting material about the Obama daughters in the years to come.

The real tragedy here though is Megan McCain who by all accounts has a great personality and she does have a very pretty face if only she’d take off some pounds.  She could be that young Republican sex symbol for the 2o somethings the way that Sarah Palin is for the older generation.  Let’s hope she gets her act together.  As it is now who can take a woman seriously when she obviously needs to lose weight.  If she has any hopes of being the next Rush Limbaugh she’s going to have to look more like the women on Fox.   Why do they have credibility?  Because they’re hot.  Meow!

UPDATE – One tradition at the Peele house was always hiding Easter candy so that Emily wouldn’t eat it all.  I’ll have to be really careful if I win the See’s candy contest over at Soup is not Finger Food.

Barrack Obama is fond of saying that “elections have consequences.”  However, if he truly believes this, why does he continue to ignore the nearly half the nation that voted for John McCain.  During the election, McCain made ending earmarks a major point of his campaign.  So why exactly is Obama approving a huge earmark laden spending bill?

Faithful readers, I wish that it was only earmarks, but Obama has continually broken McCain’s campaign promises.  When it comes to income taxes, Obama has raised taxes on people earning over $250,000 despite McCain’s promise to keep the Bush tax cuts  in place.  He has also  removed the Bush barriers to stem cell research.  “It has really been a disappointment,” said Brian Burch, president of Fidelis and CatholicVote.org. “The people who argued during the campaign that Obama’s pro-life rhetoric represented a reason to be hopeful have been totally discounted. We are 60 days in, and he has taken advantage of every opportunity to shut the door on any consensus building on the issue.”  You can be sure if we knew that Obama would do this stuff we would have voted against him much harder.

I know this comes off as sour grapes now that John McCain has lost the election, but did John McCain’s promise of a balanced budget by the end of his first term in office need to be swept aside as well?  Had we known that Barrack Obama was not going to keep any of his promises, I believe we all would have worked harder for John McCain and that just isn’t right.

If you care about the future of this country and love America too much to have it turned over to Barack Obama than I urge you to join the John McCain phone bankhttp://JohnMcCain.com/phonebank.  I am planning to make 20 calls per night and reaching out to Americans in battleground states who need to hear the McCain message. I start with a simple script like the one below.  After that, I can continue on to remind them that Obama was a terrorist when he was a child or that John McCain will help continue the sensible policies of John McCain.

John McCain is in front of a lot of people on the campaign trail and having a fresh and vibrant look is as important to him as it is to Ryan Seacrest or Kellie Pickler.  That’s why John McCain has put American Idol and Dancing with the Stars Makeup Artist Tiffanie White on the Straight Talk Express as an adviser.

Tiffanie hasn’t said yet how she feels about the challenge of making up an elder statesman like John McCain who at 72 is older than the grandparents of most of the American Idol contestants she’s used to beautifying.

In his palette selection John McCain remains mavericky eschewing the cooler colors that an average man would seek out for winter coloring.  Instead, McCain seeks out colors as fresh as Arizona outdoors to bring out the color in his cheeks and his manly jawline.

In October Tiffanie was paid $8.672.55 by the McCain campaign bringing her two month take home to over $15,000.   That’s great money and an ideal career for any young girl who would like a future in politics without reading a lot of boring policy statements.

One of the top 3 heroes in American history never gets the attention he deserves because he never lived in America.  However, it was Christopher Columbus who discovered America in the first place despite everybody telling him that the world was flat.   There’s only one word for that type of behavior and that is Mavericky.  Columbus was one of the first great mavericks who followed his own sound judgement regardless of what others thought.  Even though America was 13 British colonies in Columbus’s lifetime it was those 13 colonies that have made us the greatest force for good the world has ever known.

When you look at the qualities that made Columbus a great man, you reallized just how much he has in common with John McCain:

1. The willingness to sail around the world when others told him to take the easy way out.
2. The diplomatic ability to meet savages from strange cultures
3. The ability to manage a crew with a calm hand on the tiller

Today was Christopher Columbus’s day.  Let’s hope that the first Tuesday in November is John McCain’s day.

Today on Face the Nation, Senator Lindsey Graham took on Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a veteran of the civil rights movement,  for playing the race card by comparing John McCain to George Wallace.  George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who only desired to exercise their constitutional rights,” Lewis said. “Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed one Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.”

I applaud Graham for taking on Lewis even though it will probably cost him dearly among the conservative South Carolina voters whose support Graham needs if he is to stay in Washington.  What Graham said succinctly was that Lewis was “playing the race card” by attempting to silence legitimate criticism of Obama such as the fact that he has a foreign sounding name and is best friends with a terrorist.

The McCain campaign has called on the Obama campaign to denounce Lewis and his divisive politics. After all you can’t judge a campaign by the one lone nut in the crowd who yells out “kill him” or the one who yells out “off with his head” or that other guy that yelled out “bomb him” or the calls of “treason” or “terrorist”.  Those are just isolated individuals.

A lot of liberals put John McCain down when he suspended his campaign on September 25th to rescue the economy.  However, none of them can say that McCain didn’t actually save the economy.  In fact, evidence is mounting that he has.

One of the main things that has caused the problems with the economy is the energy crisis.  If you look at it closely though you see that old Maverick McCain Magic, the price of gas has dropped an average of 23 cents per gallon across the nation.  That may not seem like a big deal, but remember that this is an average of 11.5 cents per week.  If this number is extrapolated for 6 months, our gas will be about $1 a gallon.  Imagine what a McCain Presidency could be like.

As McCain turns his attention to housing and Wall Street, I would personally like to thank John McCain for everything he has done to reduce the cost of oil.  If he can do all this in one day, imagine what he could do in 8 years.

Sarah Palin came under a lot of heat this weak after a reporter caught her telling a voter that she’d go into Pakistan if necessary to defeat al-qaeda.  As you may remember from the debate last Friday, Pakistan is one of the few countries that John McCain does not want to go to war with.  in recent weeks the country has been in the news for shooting at our troops and airplanes.

Speaking to Katie Couric, John McCain denounced gotcha journalism or the tactic where reporters wait for a candidate to say something questionable so that they can broadcast it on the news.  Calling the incident a “gotcha soundbite” McCain dismissed the statement.  Palin went on to make fun of the voter who asked her about Pakistan by doing a spot on impersonation.

I decry this horrible gotcha journalism which is completely different from the comments that Palin has taken out of context about Obama saying that people in Pennsylvania cling to their guns and their religion.  We cannot simply record the things that candidates say to voters and treat them as the candidate’s actual opinion or position.  Candidates must be allowed to lie to voters without fear of being recorded.  It is what our system of government is built on.

I just wanted to thank you Senator McCain for the great performance tonight.  I know it was on very late and I appreciate your sacrifice.  I know you have had trouble getting the rights to play rock songs at your campaign events, but I believe this Peter Gabriel song could be a great new theme for your campaign.  It was used in a movie called Say Anything which I think you might like.

In solidarity with John McCain, I am suspending this blog until the financial crisis afflicting our fundamentally strong economy.  I am not quite sure what this means yet.  McCain surrogates have been on television and his campaign offices are still open since McCain suspended his campaign, but I intend to suspend this blog in solidarity with John McCain until the financial crisis is over. Once McCain’s lobbyists are finished solving these problems and can return to running his campaign, I will be back posting.  I was going to keep posting, but when I saw Sarah Palin shying away from the press so that they would focus on the financial news, I knew I could do no less.