Politics: Suddenly Better Than Sex?

Sex. Just about everyone likes having it, and even if they prefer not to talk about it, chances are they still think about it. And so, as they say, sex sells. But move over, love-making, there's a new hot topic in town: the 2008 presidential election. Perhaps most telling of all is that People and US Weekly now cover the mundane doings of our foremost politicians ("Hillary Clinton: My Worst Outfits Ever!" and "Barack Obama: Is He Really Just Like Us?," for example) in the same lusty manner once devoted to movie stars:

"People are craving it," said Larry Hackett, People's managing editor. "They are really, really interested in what's going on, and so we're covering it more than ever."

Behold the symbiotic relationship that has developed between the campaigns and the entertainment press. Some of the most celebrity-centric, entertainment-obsessed news media outlets have added a heavy dose of political news to their lineups, taking space normally devoted to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and handing it to articles on people known more for wonkiness than sexiness.

And the candidates have batted their eyelashes back, obligingly granting interviews, posing for pictures and writing personal essays.

Campaign aides say that they can usually count on a soft, friendly chat conducted by reporters or television hosts who are unlikely to hit them with questions about the Iraq war, while at the same time reaching crucial younger female voters.

Keep reading the New York Times story.

Us Weekly's coverage of the candidates.

It doesn't hurt that one of the candidates inspires a passion normally reserved for private acts. Behold: The O-Bama Face.

Which topic do you find more interesting: sex or politics? And who's hotter: Clinton or Obama?

Comments

[dapperd72]

Politics has to be better than sex, or at least serve as potent foreplay even without the golden prize. There's no risk of STD's in politics and reasonable people can still respect each other in the morning. One needn't any protection, ie. condoms, diaphragms, birth control pills or other contraceptives in politics. Furthermore, the head is often known as the secondary sex organ, probably due to the brain inside that more intuitive people recognize as sexier than any physical attributes possessed by the object of one's affection south of the border.

[Lazyeye]

Yeah-yus. yes. In other words. We can make somebody feel good in politics.

[sleeperd]

For dysfunctional liberals and their never-ending quest to get on the public payroll, politics will always be better than sex. In point of fact, sex takes more effort than most libs want to put forth.

[reelcobra]

Politics is just like sex.

Obama is pitching and the Dem party is catching!

Catching "hope".
Catching "change".

Yes we can.
Yes we can.

This weekend we can cellebrate the last weekend before the Rezko verdict.

Wait until the HillBilly attack machine gets ahold of a convicted Rezko making deals to save his own rear.

That land deal scam that got our guy the house for way under market could be the next racist, unfair media attempt to take us off message.

Just remember...

YES WE CAN!
YES WE CAN!!
YES WE CAN!!

BHO '08!!

[dapperd72]

I don't know if politics is better than sex, but it sure beats the Hell out of football. I've always found women more attractive for their intellectual curiosity and political activism than shallow interests like their makeup, mall-shopping & other superficial qualities that GW Bush told us to pursue after 9/11/01. I appreciate if the MSM are devoting more reporting to political issues than celebrity gossip lately, but they should focus on the most pressing issues, not tabloid garbage of the past & the candidates' 6 Degrees of Separation, ie. Rev. Wright, IOW guilt by association. Of course, I'm not the least bit turned on by Anne Coulter or any other fascist with looks that kill, literally in Coulter's case. If Susan Sarandon was challenging Obama rather than Clinton, I'd be more inclined to vote for a woman this year, albeit not based on gender alone, but intellectual honesty & moral courage. We have to play the hand that's dealt us.

[amanda85]

Politics might be better than bad sex but it's no match for good sex. :)

[AnAmericanWoman]

Who's hotter? Do you even really have to ask??? Where have you been? Obama baby! OBAMA!

[VolvoBirkenstock]

If politics is better than sex, I pity you.

[LWilkinson315]

We are indeed a visual society and the differences will be so obvious when Obama and McCain debate on national tv LOL I do not want to come off as shallow and critize McCain's age(because I pray i live to reach his age) BUT you know- you gonna have youthful hotness debating against a older man with a slight hunch in his back.....I know I know I know its has nothing to do with the issues but that will be the first thing both republicans and democrats notice when the two come face to face

[mike53]

Maybe Obama would have a slight hunch to if he had spent a few years in Hanoi. Also the dems better be careful about going after McCains age. Thats one voting block they don't want to piss off. They vote.

[steamboat]

Amazing how these so-called open-minded people find it okay to make fun of a person who had his shoulders completely broken by 5 years of torture..........and using THERE propaganda, they say todays 60 is now 40, so doesn't that make 70 to be 50?

[LWilkinson315]

'Morning steamboat- in no way I am "making fun" of McCain's "hunch" (I too have Nam vets in my family) but just staing the fact that some people are indeed shallow and will take something like that into consideration in this convo about politics and so called "hotness"

[Hillrick]

Better than sex? Only if you're not doing it right.

[mommamia526]

Barack Oh, Bahmi (Goreng) is yummi! I guess. Well, he is a typical 40 something player, in any case. Let us just hope the U.S. will not be taken for a fool. Once we are pregnant...heaven forbid!

[moda31]

there's no question as to which candidate is hotter. there's a pretty funny video floating around out there of the press corps getting all giggly over obama working a pair of jeans on his plane, everyone is yelling at this one poor woman to get out of the way so they can get a look. this is the press corps we're talking about, not a gaggle of tabloid reporters & they're all totally checking him out. sex & politics are definitely coming together in this race, obama girl isn't the only one with a crush on obama.

[Glowcy]

then, again, while I am not a John Edwards supporter, I loved waiting to see him flash that smile

[BDunne]

obama is sexy

[Stagehnd1]

I second that!!!

[AnAmericanWoman]

third it!

[Glowcy]

with Obama, it's his eyes and wingy ears

[libs = kooks]

Nothing like getting banged by dumbo

[AnAmericanWoman]

JEALOUS.....

[Stagehnd1]

Hey now...

[peacebypiece]

OMG! Great choice of photos to go along with this headline. HILLARIOUS!

[Dap]

Happy Third (3rd) Birthday Huffington Post ! Thanks

[mamacat]

I have nothing to say. So please don't read this.

[GonzoFactor]

Politics better than sex? For you, maybe.

[iBgood]

It must be to the rethugs. Too much policing and micromanaging where sex is concerned. But politics? All bets are off and anything goes. Woot!

[Rmtns]

Perhaps someone needs lessons.. I prescribe sex- ed in schools..

[rini]

If Obama wins, I will have an O-gasm.

[filo]

After THAT much information I need a cigarette !


Whew !!!

[myna]

Obama is seductive and quite the womanizer. I've seen his MO in person. He can make young women and men weep.

[steamboat]

And he has an always angry wife whose mouth may cost him the presidency if you've heard her in person. I have

[filo]

I think you see what you want to see. Any time I have seen her she seemed cery down to earth.

[LCRover001]

Maybe she is mad all the time because she is frustrated, Obama all talk and no O.