Slashdot Mirror
McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs
Vote McCain in 2000! writes "McCain is not the stranger to technology some think him to be. McCain is now asking supporters to stump for him on blogs. Republican Web 2.0 consultant David All was effluent with praise for this outreach, calling it 'smart' and 'unique.' McCain's blogger outreach section has a handy list of political blogs which might be interested in hearing about McCain, such as the DailyKos, Crooks and Liars, and Think Progress. You can even report your posts to the campaign and 'receive points for your success,' though the page doesn't say what exactly the points are good for." Slashdot is not on their suggested blogs list. Can't imagine why.
McCain's key demographic just isn't as densely populated with young, tech-savvy individuals like Obama's (or other candidates) Besides, how does McCain expect his supporters to use a machine that he admittedly can't operate?
to ask hordes of bigoted republicans to spam the blogs with comments including a lot of believer speech ending with the word 'fact'. they kinda think if you add the word 'fact' to any sentence, whatever bullshit you are spewing becomes more believable.
Read radical news here
Bush and his cronies have successfully destroyed any and all support for a conservative government. Most people don't even know the meaning of "conservative" anymore, they think it means "christian fundamentalist". Proper conservatism is doomed. The next 20-50 years of US governments are going to be liberal, so liberal it'll curl your toenails. There's nothing that can be done about it; We as conservatives have screwed the pooch by letting Bush and all his bible-banging cronies in office. We're done, we're defeated. The best thing we can do now is hope to weather it out until the country goes bankrupt and small-government conservatism has a chance again. I've already sold off my guns and sold my airplane. I'm working on selling my truck now. I'm putting the proceeds in the bank, since I know my taxes are going up hard. I'm going to be miserable the rest of my life, but my kids are going to need the money. We need to batten down the hatches, circle the wagons, and save toward the future. Hopefully our children (or our childrens' children) can restore proper conservatism at a later time. We haven't got a chance in hell.
John McCain hasn't changed much at all. The "maverick" thing is just as much BS now as it was then. John McCain is a liberal Republican; that doesn't make him a "maverick", it makes him purple.
But I think, perhaps, you're missing a few key points. For starters, if you agree with somebody most of the time and then suddenly disagree with one or two things, don't naturally assume that you're the one who's right.
1) John McCain was never for small government. I'm not sure where you got that idea, but that part has never changed. It's why I didn't support him in 2000.
2) McCain rarely backs George Bush. Could it be that he supports the war in Iraq because he thinks it's the correct thing to do, and -not- because of Bush? Because from where I sit, McCain and Bush disagree on basically everything. So could it be that John McCain is still the smart, good man you liked in 2000 and happens to be right, regardless of the media spin on Iraq, and you happen to be wrong? Happening to agree with George Bush doesn't automatically make him a shill.
3) McCain never sucks up to the religious right, either. Ask anybody -in- the religious right.
4) McCain was a victim of torture. He has repeatedly drawn distinctions between what happens at Gitmo and -actual- torture. Enough people calling an apple a "car" doesn't make it a car. If anybody has unique insight into what constitutes torture, John McCain does. So maybe you should, again, consider whether you are on the wrong side of this. Note: I believe that he is still against, officially, "torture." The difference is that he's not convinced that solitary confinement for a few weeks or interrogations are neccesarily torture. He has made his beliefs on things like waterboarding and electic shocking clear. Although I suspect he sits around and calls the people complaining about it pansies.
5) At least John McCain understands economics and is against socialized health care. I never "believe" in politicians any more, I just vote for the ones that I think will use my hotbotton issues to claw their way up (McCain) instead of the ones that I think are self-destructive or naive themselves (Obama).
Note: I don't really like John McCain that much, but he's the same liberal Republican he was in 2000.
Repugs stole your elections once, won another by going to an unnecessary war that caused terrorism to grow, not to linger; justified in a damned lie that your powerfull government imposed on the rest of the world (I mean, whos gonna stand in the way of an invading US... you have the most effective army in the history of the world).
And STILL, this mcain guy is really really close and may very well be chosen, by you guys, again, to lead your country; Which, like it or not, means leading -not RULING- the better chunk of the world -> occident.
I have no say, cause im not a voter, but damn, guys... I hope your people understand that we are in the brink of a cultural war, that the US is in the best position to unite occident behind her.
Diplomacy, from my standpoint (an outsider, what a surprise), should be on your mind. If the US cant get her head out of her ass and start thinking as the leader of occident it once was, we are ALL doomed to long term China domination and the subsecuent cultural death of the democratic ideals shared by all occident.
A good place to start is recognizing that democracy is not just an american trait, its an occidental vocation that affected every single country in occident. Having said this, the whole world recognizes that US democracy is clearly a great working model of a modern Republic.
Another good place to start is in the recovery of the language. GWB hollered to the world that he was spreading "liberty" in Asia by carpet bombing bagdahd. You see, the word liberty should never be tied to such stupid and mindless violence.
You let this asshole hijack the precepts that your forefathers died to preserve: take it back. Liberty means freedom, for ALL. The right to be rich, for ALL. The right to assembly, for ALL.
Liberty does not mean "im going to kill your children for oil, justified in that people that DRESS like you, and share your RELIGION, shot a couple of buildings down in Manhattan".
Take it back, you guys. Take your country back. Democracy is at great peril everywhere.
NO SIG
So you have an issue with $4 gas but you are going to vote for Obama? You do understand that the reason we are paying $4 a gallon is because we can't drill in this country. The far left, and make no mistake, Obama is the most left voting member of the Senate, is the group that is not allowing us to tap into the potential 400 billion, yes billion, barrels in North Dakota and Montana. That is almost double the amount is Saudi Arabia, yet we can't use it. I personally think the high price tag is good, it is actually causing us to conserve and reduce our oil usage, but we don't have to be sending that money to countries that hate us.
I'm not not licking toads.
You're forgetting that Kosovo was a "military action" started by a Democrat president, and so totally okay by them.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
Look: Social Security is fucked. It is not recoverable; too many years of robbing it to pay for other crap have put it into a death spiral The sooner we kill it with fire, the sooner young people like me will stop having to pay into a system that will never pay us back.
What we need to do now is say "as of 2014, no more people will be added to the Social Security rolls." And as of 2017, we all stop paying for it.
Liberal fucktards are big on "fairness," aren't they? Where's the "fairness" in making people like me pay for something we'll never, ever, ever get?
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
They're more likely trolls than the insane bigotry posted to McCain's website.
But it's perfectly clear that you are nothing but a McCain troll here on Slashdot.
--
make install -not war
So, when you can't win, redefine success?
My twitter
A year ago, I set up a older woman who has brain damage with a Linux desktop and net access and she uses it just fine
Well, then! Now I'm sure she's all set to vote wisely on issues like the regulation of ISPs, exports of crypto software, common carrier status, internation VoIP that transits US networks, and a host of other hot topics. Now that you have her reading e-mail and download recipes from epicurious.com, why, she's WAY more tuned in to the sort of policy considerations that, back before you set up Linux for her, she was just too last-decade to understand.
I think we'll be far better off with a president who's so high-tech that it never occurs to him that his long-standing membership in a church that streams video of his friend the pastor spewing irrational race-baiting nonsense might, via YouTube, end up causing a little friction. Yes, that shows a real grasp on New Media and technology and how it intersects with modern society.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
A shill is someone pretending to be neutral. Are you asserting that you are a neutral observer?
Oh, i thought a shill was an advocate. Me neutral, no!
And one more thing: Do you really have to drag race into this discussion? "Rich white kids"? Seriously?
It's a joke. You don't get it. Obama probably is a bit racist, but it doesn't matter. Richard Nixon couldn't stand jewish people but wound up saving Israel in its greatest hour of need.
As it is, I'm really disappointed about the manned mission to Mars being on the chopping block. Its important to me and to the USA for nationalistic reasons. Those things matter. Twenty years from now, when we finally get there, we aren't going to care about some poor slob not getting his teeth filled becuase he didn't have the money... we're going to care about the US Flag on Mars. It's going to be a good time and a great feat. On the other hand, pure and basic research is interesting, if it leads to new products for consumers... but, if it doesn't, then, you know, its not that big of a deal.
As for media decentralization goes, see, you guys put the cart before the horse. The media is what it is because of the internet. Newspapers took a beating from radio, and then TV, and adjusted and consolidated. Now computers make them pointless. Sucks, but that's just life. Radio has a role, but it will adjust, and when you have netradio and sirius and terrestrial radio you have a lot more choice than you did before. universal broadband access is just socialism.... what it basically means is that everyone else's broadband bill is going to go up so that poor people can get broadband and maybe if it doesn't go up too much, it will be ok...
But, if you really wanted to have money for inner city schools, then look at the whole USA budget. The lion's share of it is going to old people. if you really wanted to help the kids, you should have supported us when we wanted to privatize social security and medicare and capped the expenses. It would have screwed the elderly, but money would be pouring down on children, where its needed, and in droves. Cutting a few space ships out isn't going to cut it.
In general, I'm really disappointed with Obama's leftist leanings being repackaged as something new. He's really not doing anything all that dramatic or great. I can agree that the country tilts left or right depending on the challenges that face it and at this point, it looks like a federal response is more useful than a free market one. With that said, why not just go for the jugular then and really solve some basic problems? Let's take 50 billion dollars and have the Feds buy back a bunch of SUVs in exchange for American made small cars? Jeez, that would cut our gasoline bill in -half- and pay for itself in one year. For a deep thinker, Obama just doesn't cut it.... the idea of a strong and progressive government is to rally people around the flag, accomplish a national purpose. He should be saying, "yeah, we're going to rebuild America and then put a man on mars, to show the world how Americans do things."... but for him to say that manned flight isn't necessary tells me that he's not even really a good liberal. Nationalism is ESSENTIAL to good liberalism and paradoxically, the most successful "liberal" in the classic redistribution of wealth sense was none other than Bush.
FDR and Jack Kennedy are rolling over in their graves.
I'm a lifelong Republican, a Bush supporter, and a McCain supporter, but if Obama puts a man on Mars, he's got my vote.
This is my sig.
Wait until Obama's views are better known by the right wing. They will turn out to vote against him (and gay marriage).
> LOTS of people who refuse to vote for McCain.
Add me to the list. I just sent the Party a letter telling them to save their postage on me because there ain't a chance in Hell of me sending them money this year. But I did invite them to keep my name on their lists in the hope that next time they wouldn't nominate someone who is a menace to our form of government.
I watched McCain blow off criticism of his McCain/Fiengold abomination by saying "People out in the country don't care about that, they never ask me about it." Well that is only because the only time the bastard enters my State it is to Karma Whore in New Orleans and I'm just not up to driving five hours to perhaps get a chance to ask the fool "English, Motherfucker! Do you speak it? 'What part of Congress shall make no law' goes over your pointed head?" (And get promptly escourted out by security.)
Seriously, I EXPECT Democrats to wipe their asses on the Constituition. They at least have the excuse that they don't pretend to believe in our form of government so they are at least being consistent. After all, that's the heart of the Change they Believe in, finishing the job of replacing our republican form of government with a Marxist Workers' Paridise.
Between now and election day Obama is likely to piss me off badly enough that I'll vote against him but if McCain thinks I support him just because he pretends to be a Republican he better think again. With luck I will just leave the top of the ballot blank and concentrate on electing a conservative Rep (we have two good ones running to replace the returing one) and ousting a bad Dem Senator for an OK Republican convert.
Democrat delenda est