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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?
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."
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.
> 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