August 28, 2008

McCain Pen for "Student's" Is True. Is That Stupid

File under: "I try to become more cynical every day, but lately it's hard to keep up."

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Students for McCain Pen

On one hand, there's a definite value in signaling that China will remain a valued trading partner in a McCain administration. On the other hand, at six bucks a pop there's a future ebay fortune to be made.

UPDATE: All things must pass. As of this morning, as noted in the comments, the image at the McCain site has been corrected.

Posted by Vanderleun at August 28, 2008 7:56 AM
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OK, so they don't know how to use an apostrophe. That's why it's for students...yeah, that's the ticket. It's a teaching tool.
(Only to be used to diagram sentences. Does it come in red? The ink, not the pen.)

Posted by: ed in texas at August 28, 2008 8:30 AM

At least McCain's got the students. O'bama has the morons, and the morons have him.

Posted by: askmom at August 28, 2008 10:15 AM

askmom: dont' you meen McCains' got the s'tudents? :-)

Posted by: Stephen B at August 28, 2008 10:54 AM

I think McCain is reaching for the Ebonics vote. Like, "I's goin' home." equals "I am going home."

"Student's for McCain" means "[This] Student is for McCain."

Posted by: BroKen at August 28, 2008 1:08 PM

Oh, to live in askmom's fantasy land...

Posted by: smith at August 29, 2008 1:28 AM

Like, student's don't no how to punktiate. OMG. LOL.

Who knew?

Posted by: jblog at August 29, 2008 5:59 AM

Missing apostrophe? Not at all! The problem is a missing word, but alas, there was no room in front of "student's" for the obviously forgotten "This."

Posted by: Liz at August 29, 2008 6:02 AM

As Liz said. This is a statement of personal affiliation, not the name of a group!

...right?

Posted by: DensityDuck at August 29, 2008 8:22 AM

Oh, PS: The product image on the McCain website has been corrected. You might want to make a note of that.

Posted by: DensityDuck at August 29, 2008 8:25 AM

I thought that it meant that the pen was for McCain. Student's (pen) for McCain.

Posted by: JaimeRoberto at August 29, 2008 8:31 AM

I see Dan Quayle has come out of hiding and joined the McCain campaign...

Posted by: Dr Placebo at August 29, 2008 5:04 PM