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WWW.samefacts.com - 8/8/2008
McCain's Ferragamos
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One of Isabel Wilkinson's commenters gets it right: Ferragamo loafers: $520 Dolce & Gabbana blazer: $1,700 Battistoni custom-made shirt: $700 Galliano trousers: $1800 Fooling American voters into believing your opponent is an elitist: PRICELESS To those of us who are not fashion hounds, the name "Ferragamo" recalls only one thing. It's striking how much McCain's attitude toward truth-telling ...

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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles:  McCain's Ferragamos

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McCain's Ferragamos
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — From Mark Kleiman: The Reality-Based Community: McCain's Ferragamos: One of Isabel Wilkinson's commenters gets it right: Ferragamo loafers: $520 Dolce & Gabbana blazer: $1,700 Battistoni custom-made shirt: $700 Galliano trousers: $1800 Fooling American voters into believing your opponent is an elitist: PRICELESS ...

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