McCain/Irony '08

I created a facebook group today. It's called McCain/Irony '08.

Here's a photo I made for it.



Here's the text from the group's description.

This group is dedicated to documenting the supreme love of irony John McCain has shown in his bid for the presidency.

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Some examples of John McCain's delicious sense of irony:

McCain is married to a corporate heiress and owns seven houses, yet he chides Obama for being an out-of-touch elitist. Obama, meanwhile, was raised by a single-mother (sometimes on food stamps) and wouldn't even qualify as rich today by McCain's own standard (over $5,000,000 a year).

-Well played, John.

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McCain uses the slogan "Country First." Yet in his pick for Vice President, he blatantly pandered to a specific demographic, showing more of an interest in electioneering than governing. Obama, however, picked someone who, while he didn't electrify pundits and commentators, is clearly qualified to be Vice President.

-Oh, that is wicked!

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McCain has accused of Obama running on celebrity, when McCain's own career has been built on the cornerstone of being a famous war hero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAi2cJZSLvo

-Oh, I see what you did there.

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McCain insists that Obama is all talk and no substance. Meanwhile, newspaper headlines are showing the concrete results of McCain's prefered financial policies and he insists that he'll reform the very system he helped implement.

-He's the master. You got me again, McCain!

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The Republican National Convention was a smorgasbord of irony, as McCain received exuberant cheers for supposedly fighting against the very people who were exuberantly cheering. His speech could be summarized thusly:

"I'm going to go change the way they do business in Washington, where I've done business for 26 years, and tell my colleagues, who I've consistently agreed and voted with, that I won't put up with our way of doing things anymore"

-Vonnegut Smonnegut! If he was any more ironic, we'd start to think he was serious!