John McCain Wears Nice Shoes
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... The flack department at HuffPo emails to tout Isabel Wilkinson ’s post, “A Week In John McCain’s Shoes — His $520 Ferragamo Loafers, That Is.” It documents, in extensive detail, McCain’s wearing of a pair of black calfskin Salvatore Ferragamo ‘Pregiato’ Moccasins, which retail at Nieman Marcus for $520. Apparently, this goes to show that McCain doesn’t buy his shoes at WalMart. And is a hypocrite? In response to Barack Obama’s foreign tour, McCain spent much of his energy last week emphasizing his focus on domestic issues. What better way to show his American pride than to ...

"Presumptuous"
TPMCafe — ... John McCain is traveling around in $520 loafers--silly me, I didn't know there were any such things--but he's not called "presumptuous" for it. He claims to have foreign policy experience because he was a prisoner of war, but he's not called "presumptuous" for that, either. ...

Obama's Elitism Problem
Matthew Yglesias — ... The big challenge facing Barack Obama is whether or not ordinary people can relate to him. After all, he's a big-time elitist. He thinks that it's better, all things considered, to speak two languages rather than one. Meanwhile, John McCain continues to flaunt his regular guy attributes, showing off his $520 Salvatore Ferragamo Pregiato Moccasins in a variety of settings in much the same spirit that the legendary straight talker once traveled, like a man of the people, in the First Class car on the Acela to Philadelphia. ...

A Case Study in the Difference Between Republican and Democratic Campaign Tactics
The Anonymous Liberal — This item at the Huffington Post notes that John McCain routinely wears a pair of $520 imported Ferragamo calfskin loafers to campaign events. ...

Prohibitive Prescriptions
The Republic of T. — ... And John McCain’s health plan would make surea good many of us get even less — something he probably knows right down to his $520 Ferragamo loafers, given that ...

Where's The Outrage, Hewitt?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — by Chris Bodenner McCain wears $520 black leather shoes.  By Ferragamo.  Imported from Italy.  In Europe. ...

A man of the people
The Reaction — ... At least McCain wasn't making such jokes in $500 shoes. Oh, wait. Well, at least the media is mocking him for his expensive taste in footwear. Oh, ...

$400 haircuts vs. $520 Italian leather loafers
Political Animal — ... So, what I saw this report in the Huffington Post about McCain’s Italian leather loafers, which cost $520 a pair, my first instinct was to pay it no mind. ...

Yawning at McCain's shoes
Ben Smith's Blog — ... his own inability to get excited about the report that John McCain's shoes cost $520, and imagines how excited conservatives would be if Obama were sporting an item of apparel that expensive. ...

McCain’s Britney Moment
Oliver Willis — ... and morphs into the Mean McCain his close associates and wives know, he has attacked Sen. Obama as a celebrity and used Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in his latest ad designed for the media to run over and over again for him. The problem here is it is John McCain who hobnobbed with Britney Spears and Co. at the MTV awards. It is his daughter who pals around with reality TV stars. And it he’s the one who does all this while walking around in $500+ dollar loafers. ...

$260
Hoffmania! — ... The cost of just one of McCain's loafers. The other one is also $260.

Remainders: No new taxes
Jonathan Martin's Blog — ... John McCain responds to conservative outcry by reaffirming his no-new-taxes pledge. The AP says the candidate’s fuzzy on details. And apparently he’s struggling to reach Jewish voters. Pawlenty makes his Sam’s Club pitch. Ruffini dials up the ditch-Stevens message, telling McCain to call for the Alaskan’s resignation. Is Barack Obama the new Richard Nixon? McCain wears expensive shoes. The campaign gets Ludacris. Josh Marshall ...

Full-time to part-time work hits record high
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... To be fair to John McCain, he's also cutting back. He found a bargain with his $520 Ferragamo "Pregiato Moccasins" and not the $2100 Ferragamo shoes. We all have to be cautious with spending these days, so glad to see him showing restraint as well. What a maverick. ...

Republicans In Disarray…Look Over There, It’s Karl Rove!
Firedoglake — ... , but that doesn't quite get the petulant feel of spoiled Johnny who wants his way while wearing $520 Ferragamos in the discount grocery store and thinking no one will note it. ...

$400 haircuts vs. $520 Italian leather loafers
Crooks and Liars — ... So, when I saw this report in the Huffington Post about McCain’s Italian leather loafers, which cost $520 a pair, my first instinct was to pay it no mind. ...

YANAEIYAAR*
Sadly, No! — ... Instead, elitism is apparently connected with party affiliation. A Republican who prances around in $520 Italian loafers, lives in 8 houses, claims the only way to travel around Arizona is ...

Not All Gay People Have Fabulous Taste... Take Lindsey For Example
DownWithTyranny! — ... , a place with bloody meat served to you on skewers. As for Italian restaurants... well Tutto Italia at Epcot in Disneyworld's the place in Orlando... not one of Orlando's 10 Garlic Gardens. I guess McCain was hoping people would forget about his private jet, 13 homes and $520 Ferragamo loafers and think of him as just regular folks; he ordered the ...

$100 Million Man McCain: Rich Not Defined by Income
Crooks and Liars — ... Well-Heeled in $520 Shoes. If clothes make the man, then John McCain has it made. As Huffington Post noted in July, “He has worn a pair of $520 black leather Ferragamo shoes on every recent campaign stop - from a news conference with the Dalai Lama to a supermarket visit in Bethlehem, PA.” It is altogether fitting that McCain wore the golden loafers during a golf outing with ...

All The Comforts Of McCain’s Home(s)
Firedoglake — ... ? Prancing around in Ferragamo loafers at a discount shopper photo-op while you try to paint your political opponent as an "elitist," then ...

Matt Lewis: Re: Sexism Watch: The Shoes
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... Blog [image] | Your Blogs | Issues | Get Magazine [image] [image] Hugh Hewitt | Mike Gallagher | Michael Medved | Mary Katharine Ham | Kevin McCullough | Matt Lewis | Radio Blogger | Your Blogs Directory [image] Saturday, August 30, 2008 Re: Sexism Watch: The Shoes Posted by: Matt Lewis at 7:24 AM In fairness, there has been quite a bit written about Senator McCain's shoes . [image] Email It | Print It | Comments (0) | ...

Ka-POW, Again
Sadly, No! — ... Jonah the Whale and some of the other dim bulbs of the blogosphere, have dug up a quotation from an eight-year-old Boston Globe article and played the POW “Get Out of Stupid Free” Card: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Well, if true, this explains a few other things: The reason that McCain wears $520 Ferragamo loafers is because he can’t tie his shoes. The reason that his Senate ...

Late Late Nite FDL: Brother Can You Spare A Trillion Bucks For A Song?
Firedoglake — ... The New Mastersounds "Give Me A Minute Part 2" So we all just spent a trillion dollars bailing out a bunch of Ferragamo booted Friedman followers, and all I've got for you is a couple of YouTubes. I say we shake it off for just a little while by kicking off our Late Late Nite with some Rock and Roll. First, from Jacksonville, Florida, JJ Grey & Mofro performing their song, War, followed up with a little Funk, from Leeds, UK, The New Mastersounds performing, Give Me A Minute Part 2.  What's on your mind ...

Hillary speaks about Palin
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... . (And to be fair, we've harped on McCain's $520 Ferragamo 'Pregiato' Moccasins and how he looks like he's gotten awfully elderly recently). And another thing, Todd Palin didn't wear a $300,000 outfit to the convention. Cindy McCain did. ...

Late Late Nite FDL: Brother Can You Spare A Trillion Bucks For A Song?
The Hollywood Liberal — ... and all I’ve got for you is a couple of YouTubes. The New Mastersounds “Give Me A Minute Part 2″ So we all just spent a trillion dollars bailing out a bunch Ferragamo booted Friedman followers, and all I’ve got for you is a couple of YouTubes. I say we shake it off for just a little while by kicking off our Late Late Nite with some Rock and Roll. JJ Grey & Mofro “War” The New Mastersounds “Give Me A Minute Part 2″ So we all just spent a trillion dollars bailing out a bunch of Ferragamo booted ...

Idiot of the day
Nitpicker — ... next Congress: add a refundable tax credit for biography purchases.) Sarah Palin has her own and a union oilfield worker's paycheck. I thought the hockey jersey was fine, but it's hard to blame a campaign for wanting to keep up with the Obamas.Wow. Unfortunately for Steckler, it seems that Michelle Obama could have purchased around 1,000 dresses for what Palin's spent in two months and, considering Obama's well-worn and patched shoes (vice McCain's $500 Ferragamos) suggest Palin could have kept up with Obamas for much less.

COLUMN: Our Addiction to Fake Outrage
Open Left - Front Page — It's outrageous that President Obama gets driven around in a limo! It's outrageous that John McCain wore expensive shoes! It's outrageous that Michael Phelps smoked some weed! Welcome, as I say in my newest newspaper column, to a nation now addicted to fake outrage - a nation that feeds on made-up controversies about total non-issues. And if we don't break our dependency, we're really not going to solve the huge challenges we desperately need to solve. I tied the column to the Phelps story because it was such a great example of the Fake Outrage Machine that ...

McCain’s shockingly expensive loafers: $520; Michelle Obama’s sneakers: $540
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... the media scandal erupt over how such a supposedly “down to earth” woman could be so thoughtless as to flaunt her wealth in front of common hard-working people. Lest you doubt that this was indeed an issue for a 24-hour media cycle or two last year, click the image and scroll down. CNN — bouncing off a HuffPo post, natch — devoted three minutes of airtime to it, emphasizing the contrast between McCain and the heroically modest Democratic candidate who owns but four pairs of shoes. [image]

Let Them Eat Cake
Weekly Standard Blog — Marie Antoinette Obama, shod in Lanvin, dishes out food to D.C.’s homeless. Editor's note: Remember the outrage at the Huffington Post about McCain's loafers?