During the first concert of Madonna’s “Sticky and Sweet” tour, held Saturday night at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, more than 40,000 fans were subjected to an anything but subtle display of the singer’s political views.

The statement which some found quite distasteful was aimed at John McCain, the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 presidential election and consisted in a video montage that left no room for interpretation.

Images of Adolf Hitler, Robert Mugabe, intermingled with some others showing the dire aftermath of global warming, environmental and social destruction, meshed into a pretty

obvious act of taking a stand against the aforementioned senator, since his image appeared in the grim collage, too.

And as if this wasn’t enough to get her message through to the audience, Madonna went, like many a time before, even further and also showed a series of images of John Lennon, Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and none other than Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois and McCain counter-candidate in the presidential elections.

Not exactly a virgin when it comes to giving rise to controversy, the singer got her performance reviewed- the political one, of course- at the drop of a hat. McCain spokesperson Taylor Griffin told US Magazine on Monday the following: “It's a disappointing and vulgar attack on John McCain, who has devoted his life to the cause of freedom and the fight against tyranny.”

Nevertheless, this cannot be over until the slender and really limber lady sings.