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McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-we're-getting-somewhere dept.

Vote McCain in 2008! writes "McCain's campaign is doing everything it can to erase Obama's online advantage, this time they ambushed Obama by detecting edits to his website when he updated some of his policy positions. This isn't the first time the Republicans have shown up the Democrats with their web savvy — you may remember the previous reports about the Republican Web 2.0 Consultants and their online campaigning game. This just proves that old Republicans can learn new tricks." Assuming the spider adheres to robots.txt, this is clever and well done.

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  1. Overrated? by Reality+Master+201 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You don't even have the balls to mod me as "flamebait" or "troll?"

  2. New Tricks. . . by Knight+of+Shadows · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now, if only the Republicans could learn to be anything other than evil, warmongering pieces of shit, we'd have something resembling a real society. . .maybe.

  3. Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref. by Jhon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't live in the US. I live in Europe. From our point of view, you have two parties that are so similar we can't even really tell the difference. Our position is usually closer to the democrats, since we tend to be quite a bit more "left" on the political spectrum than the average US person, and the dems aren't "so far right" in most of their positions.

    So it would be accurate to say that "[Your] position is usually closer to the republicans"? Because, you state above that our two parties are so similar you "can't even really tell the difference", right?

    Or, You don't know what the eff your talking about. I think it's the latter.

  4. Re:Who are you trying to fool? by downix · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hmm, no, that would be a Republican too.

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  5. Re:The Goods by graveyhead · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So, you can't refute it, just call me a hippie?

    Loser!

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  6. Journalist Integrity on Slashdot? by Dieppe · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The original poster's name is "Vote McCain in 2008!". Someone tell me this post isn't really part of his political effort to elect McSame.

    I'd rather a politician who can recognize when he's in the wrong, and restate his position, than a politician that is continually wrong, and won't budge.

    W. And McSame are those politicians.

    Besides, hooray that Republicans can use web diff tools. Whoopie-fuckin'-doo. Can they get us out of this Iraq war? John McCain said we could be there 100 years!

    Later he said 10 years.. and later 5 more years. Can't HE make up his mind already?

    Either way, get this political crap out of here. Next someone will be telling me that Republicans figured out how to send email.