They even called her “our commander in sheath”! Michelle Obama officially joined Vanity Fair’s International Best Dressed List, while Cindy McCain sat at home and wept into her Chico’s catalog. [NYDN/Vanity Fair]

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In this clip, cross-dressing Manhattan dandy Rudy Giuliani explains his love of “elephant ties,” and the importance of picking “elephant ties” with “trunks pointing up.” Enjoy!

Remember when John McCain re-relaunched his campaign back in April? We didn’t really either, but we wrote a post about it so it might have actually happened. That week-long re-re-relaunch tour didn’t have quite the intended effect, alas, and now John McCain’s paranoid rage is finally finding a deserving target. MORE »

Excerpts from the latest McCain blast email: MORE »

Local fashion blogger D.C. Pleats first caught Hillary wearing this particular jacket last Friday. We don’t know shit about clothes, as we don’t even wear pants most of the day, so we’ll let them take care of the criticism: MORE »

Mike Huckabee, ladies and gentlemen: MORE »

Barry Hussein Obama’s habit of dressing like a GQ spread has inspired not just Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — no, other douchebags across the country have decided that ditching ties and leaving shirts oh-so-playfully unbuttoned will make them look young and stylish instead of like aging loud Miller Lite-guzzling Biz-Cas rich assholes crowding shitty bars at Friday happy hours. MORE »

* Al Gore is planning a global warming concert/rally that will “dwarf Live Aid.” Hopefully, it won’t feature that dwarf from live aid, Bono. [FT]
* Next time Barry Hussein is dropping a deuce and thinking, “Gee, I wonder how I should run my Presidential campaign,” GQ will have him covered. [GQ]
* Donatella Versace thinks Hillary Clinton should wear more skirts and dresses. Donatella Versace also thinks a half ounce of yay is breakfast. [Suitably Flip]
* Wyoming plays the “I know you are, but what am I?” game with New Hampshire. [Election Central]
* John Edwards’ campaign bloggers were a hard target, new softer enemies include “subversive knitters.” [Michelle Malkin]
* Dennis Hastert ruined the free Air Force plane use for everybody. [Think Progress]
* Tonight’s book party for Terry McAuliffe is totally crashworthy, for the guest list and for the two-grand bottles of cognac. [Washington Whispers]

* Scooter Libby is just another persecuted Scientologist. [Outside the Beltway]
* John Edwards goes live tonight using same video chat software your favorite porn sites use. [John Edwards]
* This thing doesn’t look like that thing. [C&L]
* Bill Keller thinks your newspaper sucks. [Romenesko]
* Nancy Pelosi has spendy outfits. [MoJo]
* Hu Jintao is, apparently, the master of his domain. [Dean's World]
* Product placement in future SOTUs is a magic money teet. [Matthew Yglesias]
* Don Sherwood is the kind of guy that would choke a woman and not have the common courtesy to make his hush money payments. [The Politico]

* Rupert Murdoch shoots lightning bolts from his various “news” outlets at Hillary, mumbles something about her paying for “lack of vision.” [Radar]
* Hillary betrayed by a pant suit. Hotline on Call]
* Rush Limbaugh’s favorite place to eat in DC is same as Treasury Department employees’ favorite place to score coke. [Media Matters]
* Christopher Dodd sends any old bullshit to the FEC, they’re just an “accounting thing” anyway. [Political Insider]
* FBI says any old bullshit to the media, they’re just an accountability thing anyway. [TPM Muckraker]
* Department of Homeland Security remembers to give SOTU the same security rating as the Super Bowl. [Suitably Flip]
* Military’s new bunker-buster bomb has a pretty sweet porno name. [Military & Aerospace Electronics]
* TPM Muckraker Justin Rood bolting for ABC’s The Blotter & Brian Ross’ pretend phone. [TPM]