Notables: McCain & Obama

This article can be found in the Nation/World section of The Tampa Tribune, Monday, September 8, 2008.

I have re-read this article as I learn more about the candidates through youtube, newsweek and TV. I find them interesting and strangely helpful, enlightening the public about presidential candidate preferences. Perhaps see how much you have in common?

Titled "Here are 32 things you may not know about the presidential candidates."

3 things I have in common with presidential candidate John McCain:
1. He carries a lucky penny in his pocket. I wear a lucky ring on my finger.
2. He has a stuffed dancing hampster on display in his Senate office. I gave my neighbor a dancing hampster at his 60th birthday bash.
3. He is serious about the finer points of barbequing and he likes to deep fry turkeys in peanut oil. I love barbequing and deep fried turkeys in peanut oil.

4 things I do not have in common with presidential candidate John McCain:
1. He was addicted to the TV show "24." I was addicted to the Showtime series "The Tudors."
2. He played Scrooge in POW's staging of "A Christmas Carol" at the Hanoi Hilton.
3. He talks to fellow prisoners of war, those with whom he shared a cell in Vietnam, almost daily. I am not a prisoner of war and was not alive during the Vietnam War.
4. He has seven children.

3 things I have in common with presidential candidate Barack Obama:
1. He considers his worst habit checking his BlackBerry. I check my BlackBerry a lot.
2. He carries a good luck charm, a tiny Madonna and child. I carry a good luck card in my wallet.
3. He has promised his daughters, Malia and Sasha, a dog this fall. I have a golden retriever named Sasha.

4 things I do not have in common with presidential cadidate Barack Obama:
1. He has two Grammy awards for recording his best-selling books.
2. He is a good, but cautious poker player. I prefer blackjack.
3. On his first date with his wife, they had ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins in Chicago.
4. His mother's name was Stanley Ann Dunham--her father, Stanley, wanted a boy.

Yay for the presidential elections!

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http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/whos-ahead/key-states/map.html