It seems that yesterday's Crocs gambit from John McCain was, as Marc Ambinder points out, literally a move straight out of the Bush playbook. Video illustration:
Meanwhile, it seems that Crocs' stock is tanking.
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The Party of Crocs
08 Jul 2008 12:29 pm
Comments (17)
You know they have high-heel crocs now? Is that fucked up or what?
More importantly, can this clear implication of McSame with ass-ugly, dignity-eradicating footwear finally lead to my family's disinvestment from this disastrous trend? In some ways, it isn't their fault - they live in Northampton (MA). But ultimately, we all are responsible for our actions, and wearing Crocs while above the age of seven is simply unacceptable aesthetically and now, unacceptable politically.
Meanwhile, it seems that Crocs' stock is tanking.
Aren't you a big-time journalist now? That should obviously be "Crocs' Stocks: On the Rocks" or something.
I think it would be appropriate for Crocs to become the official Republican footwear. Ugly, plastic, and their stock is tanking. Throw in the fact that just about anything a Republican says these days is "a croc" and you've got the perfect representation of the GOP!
As Bill Maher once said, plastic shoes should only be worn by preschoolers and mental patients.
The only people who would be caught wearing Crocs are probably Republicans anyway, so maybe it works for their target demographic...
Recreational footwear is perfectly acceptable to wear when you are recreating.
I used to wear sneakers all the time at one point in my life. But that was so that I wouldn't have to change shoes between lunchtime and recess.
And you, over there, in the velour tracksuit: dress like an adult! Give your children something to look forward to!
Ok, so why are Crocs evil, again? Is it because they cost $30 for a pair of foam plastic shoes? Or because buying the $5 knockoff at Walmart involve slumming at Walmart?
Hold on a second, people. I don't care if I look like a complete douchebag and a total jackass, and I lack any semblance of self-respect or dignity...those things are ridiculously comfortable. Without question, they’re the most comfortable footwear I’ve ever worn and I'm perfectly happy wearing them.
Crocs are a Quebec innovation -- the waterproof, smell-proof plastic was developed in the mid-nineties in Quebec, and the company that made Crocs was later bought out by the Americans.
A few years later, the original Quebec factory was shut dowen by the new American owners, throwing the folks in Canada out of work. Some pretty serious anger in Quebec about all that, all the way up to the government level. (google the NYT article by Ian Austen)
Weird that McCain is lauding Crocs -- after the largest footwear IPO in history, the stock has now tanked -- it was kind of a "shoe bubble". The American buyers took a foriegn invention, used a lot of legal muscle and patent lawsuits to try to drive competitors out of business, made a mint on the IPO, then watched the fad end, the stock plummet, and a bunch of workers lose their jobs.
An unsustainable bubble built on lawsuits that enriched a few and impoverished a lot more -- that is not a great story.
Obama's financial edge forced McCain to take the product placement revenue route.
Crocs = made in China.
My ten-year-old loves his -- and I love them for being reasonably cheap and easy to put on.
Crocs aren't Republican. The official Republican shoe is the same as the typical Republican person: The white loafer.
"An unsustainable bubble built on lawsuits that enriched a few and impoverished a lot more -- that is not a great story."
Sounds Republican to me.
Does the tone maverick has been taking both yesterday and in the green screen speech remind anyone else of the video professor?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tHNDzop1OEo&feature=related
I think of crocs as "those shoes people are always falling off of." Which is a pretty good trick for something that doesn't even have a stiletto heel.
Then I read the comments and learn that spike crocs have arrived.
Comments closed July 22, 2008.
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If the Obama campaign is so stupid that they do not hire you as the Campaign Manager for McCain Needling, I will not vote for Barack.
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