Is it any suprise that CEO’s are 4 to 1 in favour of Rep. John McCain’s policies and are behind the Senator from Arizona’s bid for presidency? In a recent Chief Executive Magazine poll, a whopping 80% of CEO’s and C-Level executives prefer the politics of John McCain because they believe he is better at creating jobs than Barack Obama. Even more frightening is that 74% of these well-groomed, ivy-league educated execs say they fear that an Obama presidency would be disastrous for the country.

Did somebody forget to tell these C-Level executives to have a look at what their actions have done to the stock market and the average American’s retirement savings or are they carrying the Republican ticket because the majority of these fat cats are rich, old and white, just like John McCain ?

Since when did CEO’s care about anything other than snatching multi-million dollar salaries and floating their golden parachutes over the heads of investors? Are CEO’s and C-Level executives truly as “out of touch” with the American public as John McCain?

Here’s an interesting little tidbit straight from the horse’s mouth…

I guess it’s safe to assume that Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet wasn’t part of this poll? If he was, the Oracle of Omaha, the world’s richest man, was the one out of five who sided with Obama’s policies because Mr. Buffet has chosen to back Barack Obama, even going so far as to state “I will be very happy if he is elected president.”

Chief Executive Magazine? What will they think of next ?

Nobody likes writing asignments, not when there’s better things to do like text messaging your girlfriends, updating your MySpace profile or going to the mall to get your hair done. That didn’t stop Metro State College student Janna Barbara from weaseling her way out of a writing assignment by reporting her professor to university officials over claims of bias, harassment and bullying.

Andrew Hallam, an adjunct Metro State College Professor, asked his class to write an essay contradicting what he called the “fairy tale image of Palin” presented at the Republican National Convention. For most of us with a higher education, writing assignments are generally assigned regarding topics that may or may not be inline with our personal beliefs or thinking. After all, the whole idea behind college is to expand one’s social, economic, political and cultural belief structures and to develop an analytical method of thinking. Writing assignments that stink are nothing new. In my sophomore year, I was required to write a 5,000 word biography of former president Richard Nixon. Not exactly my idea of a fun time but it was completed as requested without incedent even though the topic did not appeal to me.

Things don’t seem to work that way for kids today. Janna Barbara, a student in professor Hallam’s class decided the assignment would hamper her busy MySpace and FaceBook schedule so she complained to a relative who works for Worldnet Daily who picked up the poor little girl’s story and it ended up on Fox News in between three other stories about how Gov Palin is being ridiculed.

Janna Barbara, who appears as though she spends more time grooming her hair than she does studying gave an account of professor Hallam’s intolerable assignment to Bill Hemmer’s bleach blonde, rough and tumble co-anchor Megan Kelly. Janna offered no real insights as to why the dubious assignment professor Hallam handed the class should have the professor under investigation but she sure found an innovative way to get out of a writing assignment. Perhaps real college is not Janna’s bag, however her Fox News appearance is certainly an innovative technique to accelerate her search for a rich boyfriend. Maybe she won’t have to spend so much time in those boring classes and on those tedious writing assignments.

A Metro State College spokesperson responded :

A former student of Hallam’s stated “I could understand how the professor’s style could be misunderstood. Hallam often picked a topic for students and asked them to write a specific viewpoint as an exercise in critical thinking.”

Evidently Metro State College is not a place where thinking or critique is part of the curriculum. What’s poor little Janna going to do when she has a math assignment she doesn’t like? Is she going to cry to university officials that it’s unfair she should have to learn the Pythagorean theorem because Pythagoras has been dead for over 2500 years ?

  Any photographer taking pictures of presidential candidate John McCain, especially for the cover of a magazine, would have to be experts at photoshop to touchup all the wrinkles, liver spots and general oldness that would be exposed by the lighting.

  Not so for photographer Jill Greenberg, who in her cover shoot for the Atlantic Monthly went the opposite direction and used lighting and positioning to create a truly evil looking portfolio of portraits of Senator John McCain, one of which appeared on Atlantic Monthly’s cover…

The problem wasn’t simply that Jill Greenberg delivered a saggy, wrinkly photo of McCain for the liberal rag’s cover, she has even bragged about it to PDNPulse, a professional photography journal :

Let’s face it, McCain isn’t exactly the most attractive candidate and considering the camera tricks Fox News and other conservative media outlets have been using to make Barack Obama look discolored and darker skinned than he actually is, it’s only fair game that the pale, wrinkly, saggy Senator from Arizona was given similar treatment.

American Digest, however, doesn’t see the camera tricks as very funny and even refers to them as political pornography, whatever the hell that is, because some of the images from the session leaked out and were modified by photoshoppers into a ghastly view of the geritol popping Senator :

At least the American Digest was kind enough to grab the afformentioned images from Greenberg’s site and put them up on their own article. Here’s just a few (if you want to see the rest you’ll have to visit political pornography) :

What do you think about these John McCain evil pictures by Jill Greenberg for Atlantic Monthly ?