Here is a delightful photo of your next vice president dressed like an extra from Get Carter. Three and a half whore diamonds. [Mark Bisnow's newsletter via Politico]

Tyra Banks is a former model who now has her own talk show where she dresses up in fat suits and wears a variety of bad wigs. She recently “went undercover” in some actual nice clothes and wore a wig that did not look like it was ripped from the scalp of your friendly neighborhood transsexual who works at the MAC counter at Macy’s, and thus was magically transformed into Michelle Obama. The real Michelle Obama is still hotter, alas. (Photo via Harper’s Bazaar.) [Harper's Bazaar]

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]

New first lady Michelle Obama is a young, stylish, beautiful and successful corporate attorney from humble south-side-of-Chicago beginnings. In other words, she’s just like ancient yankee matron aristocrat Barbara Bush. MORE »

Wonkette bows its head in solemn remembrance of Yves Saint Laurent, the man who brought pantsuits to the masses. Without him, women might never have discovered the glories of pants, and Hillary Clinton would be moping across Puerto Rico in a loud sarong. [New York Times]

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Have you noticed that lady politicians tend to wear clothes sometimes? Have you noticed that sometimes those clothes look like couches or draperies or other home furnishings? Hillary Clinton has noticed it, too, and tells her tale of national fashion humiliation to the only magazine that cares. [Us Weekly] MORE »

Yesterday, we brought you the New York Times roundup of crappy campaign swag, an action which virtually guarantees that within a couple of weeks, college campuses will be rife with ironic hipsters strutting around with Huckabee messenger bags. Today’s shopping trip is to the wonderful, wonderful Blackwater store, a shop bursting with a fabulous array of fashions for him, her and baby, too! MORE »

The New York Times has a delightful round-up of all the godawful campaign merchandise offered by all the leading presidential candidates… and Ron Paul, too! Soon all the kids will be wearing McCain hoodies, Obama baby-doll tees and Giuliani baseball jerseys. Our favorites by far are the extensive wares offered by Mike Huckabee’s shop, a dizzying array of merchandise featuring superb graphics meant to appeal to his followers’ lack of grammar skills (”a.Huck.i.be”) and love of flop existential Hollywood comedies (”I [Heart] Huckabee”). MORE »

This was the gayest question of last night’s Democratic debate. Not in the question so much as the responses. We’re not going to signal anyone specific out for mockery but… hell, nevermind — was that really the only thing you could think of about Hillary that you hate, John “Mr. Blackwell” Edwards?

All the Insane Questions and The Succeeding Evasions [YouTube]

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 »