well yes, both candidate's wives need public image makeovers.

but no, i wouldn't have picked either of them as moving into the donna reed zone.

i think of cindy mccain as more of a "mrs thurston howell" of gilligans island. both in appearance and worldview. cindy is tragically out of touch with the way the world works, and the life of the average american. she'd be miserable to work for - like leona helmsley, or hillary for that matter ("you better carry that fucking bag if you don't want a one way ticket back to arkansas . .. ")

Michelle obama is a tougher match, but i'm going with star treks "spock" (or, in a modern update, vulcan/elf woman t'pol on the new "enterprise" series). there is that smirk, that barely concealed disdain for earth culture (i mean american culture), the almost controlled emotion, which you know is going to boil over in some unexpected way once in a while. she's always 2nd in command, maybe smarter than her captain, but has to watch what she says. ("captain . . . are you sure you want to use your phasers on the NAFTA treaty. the mexicans say they only want peace . .. ")

however, i do agree that barack himself could be in the zone of ricky ricardo on "i love lucy". can't you just imagine him screaming "michelle!!" ("LOOOSEY!!!!") after she gets caught spouting off on how awful america is to live in?

Personally, I think of Obama as Tuvok from "Voyager," and Michelle, maybe she is B'elana Torres.

McCain, I think of as Dr. Smith on "Lost in Space" and Cindy is Maureen Robinson who accidentally finds herself married to him instead of cutie pie Dr. John Robinson. (I am being very nice to Cindy McCain and not likening her to the Borg queen. That's because she is not running for office.)

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Actually, McCain more and more reminds me of the old man with the tiny steps on the Carol Burnett show.

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Such a sad loss to lose Harvey Corman. He and Tim Conway were brilliant together. If you need any proof of Conway's brilliance, here is a Carol Burnett skit in which he not only is breaking up the whole cast - he is doing it so effectively that Carol, Vikki and Dick Van Dyck can't even get off the stage because every time they start to control their own laughter enough Conway says another 5 words and wipes them out again. This goes on for almost 5 minutes until Vikki Lawrence gets it together and wipes out Conway, literally to the floor