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McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama

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. Re:The Goods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Spiders and the magic flip-flop detecting diff engine? No sir. They hired a room full of pedantic neocon monkeys to do this. Nice thought though.

  2. Re:Obama - go figure by HanzoSpam · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why is this not surprising? Anyone with any sort of brain knows that Obama has no idea about anything; the only people voting for him are the ones too stupid to realize he is just saying whatever he needs to, to get elected.

    Shhhh! It's not like they're actually paying attention, anyway....

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  3. Re:the third parties are running idiots too..... by EastCoastSurfer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just three weeks ago I would have argued with you about this.

    You just realized Obama was a sham 3 weeks ago? It's been pretty clear all along he's full of it. Change? Hahaha, good one.

  4. How can you say Republicans are "old dogs" by tjstork · · Score: 0, Troll

    When it is Republicans that have had the vision to put the capital tools, trade agreements, and military forces in place to create a genuinely free trading global economy? No plan ever made by Democrats has lifted nearly all of Europe and then Asia out of poverty and into the modern world, but the Republican -decades- long commitment to free trade most definitely has. Ultimate, this does mean social change for everyone, but, it is a change in world that is much more peaceful than it has been in a long time, a world where there are increasingly more people that have than have not, a world where people with brains and ambition and want to work, are not held back by those who lack them.

    All the Democrats offer, despite their supposed advantage in brains, is, largely reactionary. Obama's central campaign thrust is really "anti-Republican", and not anything really substantive as a view of life in and of itself. Obama argues -against- free trade, argues -against- American military expansion, and finally even seeks to argue -against- global wealth for everyone by demanding that the world accept a greater degree of poverty (thus rationalizing inefficient socialism), in the name of saving the environment.

    Even the very idea of redistribution of wealth, is, in essence, a reactionary idea. Some people succeed, other people didn't, and so they invent a bunch of arguments that give their thugs a right to go and take that money, and even worse, demand that someone who is successful work more days per year to pay their taxes than someone who is not.

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

    You make me sick.

    The surge worked? Gimme a fucking break. This is just the latest in a series of lies that attempts to justify Bush's war.

    Iraq NEVER had WMD, NEVER had any link to terrorists. Hussein thought Iraq would be the US #1 support country in the middle east on the war on terror, because he felt the same way we do about terrorists. He didn't want to die, he was very happy with his wealth and power. It was GWB who initiated this, GWB who lied.

    Fuck the surge. Fuck GWB. Fuck John McCain and fuck you. You all suck. Fucking war hawks. End this madness before we permanently fuck up the entire world.

    Wars are bad. Wars of choice are UNCONSCIONABLE.

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  6. Re:Why is updating your policy positions bad again by ArsonSmith · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...we have a sensationalist media that caters to the lowest common denominator...

    sounds like liberal bias to me.

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  7. Re:are you stupid? by speedtux · · Score: 0, Troll

    You only get one of these, BTW.

    Does that mean you'll shut up? Good.

    Trolling Slashdot is dreadfully easy [slashdot.org]

    Uh huh.