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08:24 September 1st, 2008

The Rocky Road to the presidency

Posted by: Robert Basler
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Blog Guy, I worry that the candidates don’t get enough to eat.

ice-cream-mccain-0829.jpg

Are  you kidding? They won’t starve. Each candidate eats an estimated six gallons of ice cream daily! They go through a dozen cones at a single stop, so all the photographers can get pictures.

I had absolutely no idea!

Sure. Why do you think a dentist travels on each campaign plane, to make sure tooth decay isn’t an issue despite all that sugar?

But what about that lady candidate, Sarah Palin? I don’t see any photos of her eating mounds of ice cream.

Look, she’s a former beauty queen, so she’s a little timid at first. Give her another week and she’ll have syrupy rivulets of butter pecan rolling down her sticky chin, just like the rest of them.

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ice-cream-combo-0829.jpgRepublican candidate John McCain in New Concord, Ohio August 29, 2008. REUTERS/John Gress

Democratic nominees Barack Obama and Joe Biden in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, August 29, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Young

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[...] Apparently, presidential candidates must eat ice cream. A lot. And not just on Labor Day. Uh, how do I sign up for [...]

- Posted by Pollyanna Labors Over the Weirdness of the Day « Pollyanna Rainbow Sunshine and the Needles of Doom

Oh, I suspect her daughter’s loading up on the pickles and ice cream as we speak.

- Posted by Charlene

Awwww. Isn’t that so PC…Joe is eating a vanilla AND chocolate ice cream. He just wants everyone to know that even both flavors of ice cream can represent change and togetherness.

puke!

- Posted by Dayshiftbob

Obama’s daughter told “Access Hollywood” that Obama doesn’t like ice cream, on the same program, even his daughter opined, “Everybody should like ice cream. Just goes to show how much of a flip flopper he really is.

- Posted by gettyleigh

You know ice cream has to be a PR nightmare. I mean, what if McCain genuinely likes vanilla? Who’s to deny a man his favorite flavour for PC-ness? Looks like everyone gets Nutty Almond all around. Surely there’s some racial group that would be offended by that flavour. . .

- Posted by Cherlindrea

Just seeing the both of them licking that cone makes we want to ban them and ice cream all together! YUCK!

- Posted by Pasqua

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