@smoohead: or maybe it's just an extremely toned size 8? stupid photoshop, making skin look like plastic. erg.

RZ: please let me make you a sandwich. grapefruit and coffee do not qualify as daily caloric intake. girl, i can see your rib cage!!

@paxetaurora: as an expat in norway, i can assure you - it's not just the swimmers ;)

@saralegal21: for real - Ian Thorpe was straight-up sex on legs. but... yeah, i feel like reparations have been made this time :)

@midwesternmom: HAHA. you are dead-on, my friend :)

i don't know anything about who he is (aside from various anecdotes), but damn if he isn't nice to look at.

@midwesternmom: is this what it's like for men normally with women in ads and the media?? because i want more olympic swimmers in my daily life, please.

@anastasia beaverhousen: kinda like Abercrombie. ew.

wait, though, is this ad campaign aimed at young women? are they looking to sell clothing to my peers? because, uh, i personally went through years of feeling like i look like a "farm animal" and even the most beautiful girls i know would never be influenced by this approach.

@Jemae:

@whats_in_a_name: i feel like that is generally the red party's reaction to their many (oh so many..) scandalous senators, et al. because you know they'll just bring the guy back into the fold as a lobbyist or something.

@whats_in_a_name: exactly. not that the Dems don't have plenty of similar ammunition to throw back, but i just don't think they'll resort to it.

@jezebel14: it's like with Spitzer, though - when you sell yourself to be this shining warrior standing up for the little guy, when that's the foundation of your reputation, doing shit like this makes you not just an asshole, but beyond hypocritical.

@anOCgirl: i totally agree with you, but i just don't think Joe Public will have the same kind of sympathy. i refer to the Republican bloc that is already pro-McCain: they'll brush it off.

@nycbaby: i know, i'm with you - this doesn't really impress the whole "good men *are* out there" mentality that i try to maintain.

@ronaldpagan: you know, it worries me, because a lot of people already know about McCain's first wife (awful, AWFUL story) and blow it off like "well, we don't know what was going on in their marriage, they were separated, blah"

@anOCgirl: i'm pretty sure they'll still use this against the Dems somehow. leave it to the evil genius, Rove: he'll figure out some dastardly way to exploit this.

@chelotoyou: i know - the two guys who seemed so so above it all. turns out they're no different from any bottom-feeding politician. ugh.

you know, this isn't great timing, either - you know the Democrats are going to try and quarantine Edwards from getting anywhere near the convention, let alone the election process in general. and in one way, that's too bad because he always brought the focus around to poverty.

i have a major girl crush on her. ever since her turn as Wednesday, i've been in love.