Too funny. You’ll recall we pointed out the other day that the McCain campaign’s Arlington headquarters was holding a big fire sale to liquidate all its computers, Blackberries and other office equipment and furniture. Well FOX 5’s Tisha Thompson says she bought one of the McCain Blackberries, and it was filled with confidential campaign information. Thompson reports that one Blackberry she purchased from the campaign for $20 “contained more than 50 phone numbers for people…

In the market for a used computer or Blackberry? Would you consider buying one from Sen. John McCain? The failed presidential candidate’s campaign staff is liquidating their Arlington offices, reports The Sleuth, and there’s some decent stuff for sale: Among the hot deals listed for sale on the price sheet: – A Dell Latitude D620 laptop for $417.00. – A Dell Latitude D820 laptop for $570.00. – Brother multifunction printer for $189.00. – RIM Blackberry…

So this is interesting: Bloomberg did a story on how no one can agree on the size of the crowd for the McCain/Palin rally in Fairfax last week. We were following the story after some controversy broke out over the initial location for the event, and went with the New York Times’s number of 15,000, which the paper said it got from “The Fairfax City fire marshal.” But the McCain/Palin camp is claiming that 23,000…

The New York Times is reporting that the official estimate of the crowd that gathered at a park in Fairfax this morning for the McCain rally was 15,000, well over twice the number of people who could have attended had the event been held at its original, controversial venue at Fairfax High School. The McCain campaign told supporters yesterday that the event had been moved because the high school venue could only hold 6,500 people….

The McCain campaign has announced that a rally originally planned to be at Fairfax High School on Wednesday morning has been moved to Van Dyck Park in Fairfax County. The campaign told supporters through an email and robo-telephone calls that the event, which will begin at 8 a.m., had been moved because the high school field was not big enough — no mention of the concern voiced by some that the county school system had…

UPDATE: Point now moot! The rally has been moved amid all the outcry, although no word yet on the new location. Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have planned a campaign rally at Fairfax High School tomorrow morning, prompting the Post to write about how some people are concerned that the event makes it looks like Fairfax County Schools are endorsing McCain. The county does have a rule against such political events being…

Since we run an internet web site thingy that people in Washington read, DCist HQ often receives unsolicited mailers from companies looking to push politically-themed products onto teh blogs. Usually we just get books. Sometimes it’s something a little more creative, like a T-shirt or a coffee mug with a cute phrase on it. And then there are the items you just can’t ignore, no matter how obvious it is that we were only…

Wonkette says this campaign ad for GOP front-runner Sen. John McCain will start playing locally now that the “Potomac Primary” on Feb. 12, made up of Maryland, D.C. and Virginia, is one of the next big strategic primary dates on the calendar. Below is the one of the two ads Sen. Barack Obama is now running in Maryland. UPDATE: This video is running in Maryland, according to Obama’s campaign web site linked previously. But…