http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071902668.html - Hillary Clinton's Tentative Dip Into New Neckline Territory

Unbelievable. Listen to this:

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She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. She was wearing a rose-colored blazer over a black top. The neckline sat low on her chest and had a subtle V-shape. The cleavage registered after only a quick glance. No scrunch-faced scrutiny was necessary. There wasn't an unseemly amount of cleavage showing, but there it was. Undeniable.
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Women are equal. Sure.

She does look pretty good though. I am thinking about getting some plastic surgery done too. *Everything* droops after 40. I am just not sure what to have done yet.

Seems no big deal, I think the outfit is pretty conservative overall.

Well, Obama's black, so he's obviously well-hung.

No, that is a lot of skin.

>Women are equal. Sure.

I suspect that a guy with a bit of ball visible might get as much attention.

right. cos balls are just like breasts.

in canada perhaps?

What is like breasts then? A politician with some pecs showing? That would get considerable coverage.

Indeed, when men pay any attention on their pruning and pluckage, they _DO_ get plenty of attention for it (expensive haircuts, Japananese PMs that look like Elvis, and so on). Boohooing that showing some cleavage gets attention is just asinine, because men have already been overwhelmingly limited to a standard penguin suit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockwell_Day

Hopeful to the throne of Canada. His chances were pretty much eviscerated when he arrived at a news conference in a wet suit on a jetski. Oh, equality indeed!

setting store about these things over content of what they actually say is utterly asinine, anyhow. it's just so utterly unimportant. which is no doubt why people focus on it ...

seven years back DF. "Day won the by-election on September 11, 2000, arriving at his first news conference on a Jet Ski wearing a wetsuit."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_(Senate_candidate)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ryan
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SevenOfNine

The republican't nominated a sex fiend to run, and when it came out just how bad of a sex fiend he was, Obama won.

The C2 site points out that Jack Ryan was derailed by /wanting/ Jeri to attend the sex clubs, not the deed itself.

Like I've said in the past, America would have been better to have been settled by some group other than the Puritans.

Because then we could elect people who want to go sex clubs?  oh, what a transformational change that would be.

>about these things over content of what they actually say is utterly asinine

There's a lot of reporting by a lot of reporters. They all cover different things, and consumers demand different things.

Free country, after all.

Yeah, I forgot about that. Borg sextress 7 of 9 being instrumental in the saga of how an Kenyan became president? Only in America! PS we rule.

A counterpoint to the OP would be this one:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/21/bush.colonoscopy/index.html

During the procedure Vice President Dick Cheney assumed presidential power. Bush reclaimed presidential power at 9:21 a.m. after about two hours.  During which time Cheney had ordered strikes on Iran and Syria and signed an executive order releasing Halliburton from federal taxes indefinitely .