Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax

Do the pundits really think that Obama has the bigger problem with attracting and maintaining the support of women? How about McCain’s suggestion that his wife participate in a topless beauty pageant in family-values South Dakota? What is he doing there anyways, veterans or no veterans?

Yesterday evening John McCain took part in the Sturgis Rally 2008 at Buffalo Chip in South Dakota, an annual tribute to veterans. The candidate was so enthused, he told attendees, that he encouraged his wife toparticipate in the festivities: “I told her with a little luck, she could be the only woman ever to serve as both the first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”

As the Huffington Post reported on Sunday, the Miss Buffalo Chip contest is more than a little risque — not to mention bedeviled by violence:

ESPN’s Jim Caple described the [event] as “essentially a topless beauty pageant. And occasionally bottomless, too.”

For those who don’t know, a buffalo chip is a dessicated lump of buffalo manure. Or to put it another, less appetizing yet direct way, whoever wins Miss Buffalo Chip is held to be a piece of shit. Not a nice thing to say about any human being, much less your own wife.

In other news, Obama strikes back at the nasty ads:

“When John McCain gets up there and says I’d rather win an election than win a war. When he says I didn’t visit the troops when I was overseas, even though every media outlet says that’s just not true… [It suggests] you are not trying to solve problems. All you are trying to do is divide people so you can win an election. That is nothing to be proud of. Let’s have a real honest debate about policies that are going to make a difference in people’s lives.”

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