It's not intelligent political discourse, but when was the last time intelligent political discourse won an election in this country?

Also the site in question no longer exists and is now asking for donations. So it was ill conceived on multiple levels.

Nevertheless I must support the right of all adult individuals to use whatever legal means an their disposal to promote their own ideology. This this would include the use of sex or sexual images. After all it's personal freedom, and I can't decide if this is self-exploitation or the exploitation of people obsessed with breasts. If I thought showing my stuff would get people to vote for BO then I would show it, but I don't think anyone wants to see my business.

gross, but looks like the site's down anyway. hopefully it stays that way.

I love the implication that the only way women can influence the world is through the use of their breasts. It's also depressing to think that you can run for office and have (well-intentioned?) people do and say things in support of you that are really offensive. The week that Clinton and Obama came to campus here there was a kid in my Critical Thinking class who showed up wearing an Obama shirt that said "Bros over Hos." I think he wore it just to stir up controversy in class, as he sat in front and asked me what I thought about his shirt just as class began. I hesitated and then said "well, it makes me wonder if you're a member of the campus Republicans, or if this is really an indirect way of supporting Clinton by making Obama look bad." The discussion continued from there...

This is a personal pet peeve of mine, but I loathe the fetishization of breasts. For real.

But that aside, it's frustrating that this isn't supporting Obama's views. There's no connection to him or his party or his policies or anything. There's just boobs. I mean, if the people in the photos consented and all that, great. They can do this, but I really don't think it's going to stir up a whole lot of support for any candidate. It tells me nothing.

So, to sum it all up: Agh, I'm sick of boobs and they have no bearing on a candidate.

Logrus, thanks for giving a beautiful, succinct response. Now, the long version. I am going to take my occassional self-promotion allocation on Feministing here and mention my blog ( http://cnbcsucks.wordpress.com ) STRICTLY for illustration. I actually had a posting regarding Boobs for Barack, so here are my points that are relevant and on topic (JV, pls. note) for this thread:

(a) As a former Republican now converted Democrat, I am impressed by the pure idealism of my new compatriots as I participate in supporting the Obama campaign. It is truly marvelous how true to your ideals, sense of integrity, purity of progressiveness some of you really are. As for me, I am a new progressive, and I want to win. The other side, the regressives (the Republicans), will stop at nothing to win, and as Hillary Clinton said, they have won 7 of the last 10 Presidential elections. Well, if it requires me to build a blog that features some sexist content (BUT NO NAKED PHOTOS, mind you, unlike Boobs for Barack) and use search engine optimization techniques to draw an audience from the many men out there doing Web searches on "margaret brennan rack" and "trish regan boobs" (actual search terms from TODAY), then I will do so to counter the Republican lies, misinformation, and propaganda on CNBC. This election is THAT important, and I am an American man. For any American woman, this election should even be EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, with Roe v. Wade realistically in jeopardy under a McCain administration. We are fighting a real political revolution, almost a peaceful civil war, and yes sometimes the cost of winning an all-important war requires relaxing a few principles.

(b) @Rachel in NY: The "implication that the only way women can influence the world is through the use of their breasts" is something you draw entirely on your own. I am a boob man, yes, but never have I thought that way. Most of my friends haven't even been boob men. What difference do boobs make anyway? Looking back at the whole Jessica-Ann Althouse thing, what difference does Jessica having nice breasts make if she is competent and passionate about fighting for feminist causes? If I like big boobs, why can't I be a feminist?

(c) @wowcabbage: I hate to tell ya, but the fetishization of breasts isn't a guy thing only. When I had a huge inflow of traffic from Feministing recently, the most popular posts and pages were about breasts. Women love breasts, everybody is obsessed with the topic of breasts. It's all over Feministing, for Pete's sake.

Ahh, let me conclude my point here. Just forget the "Boobs" in the "Boobs for Barack". Think about how WE all need to defeat John McCain and get 60 Democrats in the Senate in November. Otherwise, we wind up with a bunch of Republican boobs in power.

CNBCSucks: (c) @wowcabbage: I hate to tell ya, but the fetishization of breasts isn't a guy thing only. When I had a huge inflow of traffic from Feministing recently, the most popular posts and pages were about breasts. Women love breasts, everybody is obsessed with the topic of breasts. It's all over Feministing, for Pete's sake.

I never said it was only a guy thing. I said I disliked the fetishization of breasts and I do, whether it's men or women.

Part of the reason women are interested in breasts is because they have them. There are health issues, beauty issues and parenthood issues that are connected to that part of the body.

Part of it is conditioning that breasts are really, really, sexy and that they help determine your worth as a person. After all, you can work, have children, and all with saggy boobs, but will you ever find a man? And if you don't find a man, how will you ever be happy and have children? Never mind how heterosexist, patently untrue, and obsessed with "perfection" that is.

I do think it's sortof shallow to be a "boob man", just as I think it's shallow to be an "eye man", "ass man", "leg man" or whathaveyou. Your partner is more than a collection of body parts, and I think it's disrespectful to announce that you have a preference for a certain body part (that will invariably age and change and not look the same at all). I think it's a reflection of the fetishization of breasts and the obsession with large, perky and/or other "perfect" traits, rather than respecting a person for who he/she is or what he/she does rather than what he/she looks like. It's not that you can't be a feminist, but rather that it's focusing on a sexualized body part that many women find personal and invading to be evaluated on.

Also, it's not really okay, in my opinion, to do things that are wrong to get the "right" result. The ends do not justify the means. If we want to promote equality and justice, then that's what we should be doing. I can promote a candidate I approve of without doing things that I find disrespectful of my fellow human beings. If I do that, not only am I a hypocrite, but how does that make me "above" what I'm preaching against?

wowcabbage: After all, you can work, have children, and all with saggy boobs, but will you ever find a man? And if you don't find a man, how will you ever be happy and have children?

Ignore the first "have children" part. After all, you can't have children out of wedlock, now can you? :D

Well, wowcabbabe, it's similarly shallow for a woman to want to date tall guys, right? (This is no problem for me because I am very tall, like 6'11" tall.) My point here is that the whole world is shallow. Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do?

Also, I have to dispute your reasoning on why women have a fetish with breasts. My page views on something called CNBC Bra Sizes went up with the inflow of traffic from Feministing, and the only relationship that page has with health is the health of my libido. So, I know some of you gals have more than a passing fascination with breasts. If any of you ladies want to send me intimate and detailed descriptions of your fascination...never mind.

Anyway, I don't think breasts have any relevance in feminism. Jessica has nice breasts and I think she is the leading feminist voice right now. I love big breasts, but I will fight for feminist causes with you guys every step of the way.