This week's New Yorker (25 Feb,2008) describes John McCain's campaign bus as
"stocked with Dunkin’ Donuts and Coke, the staples of the McCain diet." (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/25/080225fa_fact_lizza)
The same issue states, Barack Obama, "took up running (three miles a day), stopped hanging out in bars, and started keeping a journal," in his sophomore year of college at Columbia. (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/02/25/ 080225taco_talk_hertzberg)
Interseting. I'm definitely from what is considered the liberal side of the spectrum. I would probably be a Social Democrat in Europe (I'm not a fan of government owning the means of production or I would probably actually be a Socialist). I also haven't had a donut or cola in years, except perhaps to cure a hangover. I do run five to fifteen miles several times a week. This fascinates me because I have no common experience with McCain. I'm simply lost to the kind of processed food, industrialized cookie-cuter product style of thinking. Listening to McCain is like watching Super Bowl commercials. I don't eat fast food, drink beer, drive a car or shop at Wal Mart so the ads, and the candidate, just go straight over my head. I'm not saying one lifestyle is better than another [who am I kidding, it's my blog and I am saying that] but there is a complete disconnect of cultures.
(I assume it is the same disconnect Roger Clemens has from vegans.)
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