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The McCain campaign sends out “The McCain Update” every Friday night, a source of bemusement to me for no other reason than that in politics, Friday nights are when you do things you don’t want anybody to see. This week’s update is headed by a “strategy briefing” from their campaign manager, Rick Davis. By “campaign manager”, I mean “faceless raspy voice that sounds like it should have a mustache”. (It doesn’t.)

If you’re in the mood for a deadly boring 16 minute Powerpoint presentation, then the McCain campaign has just made your Friday night. Don’t thank me all at once.

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Posted by Jesse Taylor on 08:44 PM • (14) Comments

Watch latest McCain effort to confuse the nation.

Deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies?

What does it mean?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DqR7zis99I

Comment #1: Lovano on 06/06 at 09:09 PM

Jesse, I actually watched the whole thing. I’m at a loss.

Stimulating, invigorating, powerful, innovative, compelling - all these words and more come to mind. Mainly as words that would never be applied to that presentation…

I’ve been worried about how Obama will do in the general, given the ambient level of racism in America. But that presentation really helped me renew my belief that Obama is the man of the hour.

It was a perfect example of stereotypical American business style. You have a shitty product - but instead of improving your product through innovation, all your innovation goes into marketing to sucker people into buying it…

Comment #2: MikeEss on 06/06 at 09:52 PM

Still not as unintentionally funny as Mitt Romney’s “Islamofascist Threat” power point. And nothing can top Romney’s “Jihad” tv ad.

Thats why I was hoping he would be the nominee, he would’ve brought self-parody to new heights.

Comment #3: Ben D. on 06/06 at 09:54 PM

Ben - Romney’s fake family meeting about his run for president beats all things with a stick.

Comment #4: Jesse Taylor on 06/06 at 09:58 PM

Am I the only one looking forward to what will be McCain’s incredibly dynamic and invigorating (sarcasm) convention speech?

Comment #5: Ben D. on 06/06 at 09:59 PM

I wonder if any actual substance will somehow leak into this election on the Reichwing side. Or will it just be like reading internet spam while trapped inside an Amway meeting…?

Comment #6: MikeEss on 06/06 at 11:01 PM

Mike, I’m betting on endless negative attacks against Obama. Go over to Red State. Endless negative posts against Obama and his wife, nary a positive mention (or any mention at all) of McCain.

Compare it to Daily Kos, where it splits about 70% boosting our side with 30% attacking the right wingers.

Comment #7: Ben D. on 06/06 at 11:09 PM

They have a long way to go.

Comment #8: Ms Kate on 06/06 at 11:25 PM

...which supports my opinion that most people who vote for McCain will really be voting against Obama.

The Reichwing had years to do anything they wanted, and it all went to shit. So their only hope (again) is to make the other guy look so scary that a percentage of fringe voters will be cowed into supporting McCain.

The thing that really bugs me is I can’t believe there really are more than a handful of voters who haven’t already decided what they’re going to do in November. So all this effort serves what purpose?

(It’s kind of like the old joke about how the guy doesn’t know if he’s going to “get lucky”, but she already knows before their date starts. I know it’s sexist/patriarchist/stereotypical-gender-roles/not-inclusive, etc. You’re right. I need more reeducation…)

Comment #9: MikeEss on 06/06 at 11:34 PM

Except for that brief moment after 9/11 when he was riding high, no one really ever liked _Bush_ all that much—IIRC he was around 50% right after getting (quasi-)elected in 2000, and around 50% right after getting (quasi-)re-elected in 2004. Both times he basically ran a campaign—abetted by the media—of making the other guy look worse. It’s one of the Republicans’ sharpest-honed skills. That’ll have to be McCain’s hope this time around.

Comment #10: FlipYrWhig on 06/06 at 11:51 PM

If I had a buck for every time I’ve heard some idiot “defend” Bush by immediately claiming “Gore/Kerry would have been worse”...

Comment #11: MikeEss on 06/07 at 12:07 AM

FlipYrWhig - I would have agreed with you in 2003 but lately it’s been a bit scary listening to people who drank the flavor-aid. I’m sure some of the continued rationalization is just political calculation but there are a surprising number of otherwise intelligent people who show every sign of truly believing that Saddam supported al-Qaeda or that everyone in Guantanamo was a terrorist. I think the problem is that they’ve incorporated being Republican as part of their identity and it’s easier to believe fantasies than admit that they knowingly enabled a monster - the situation is somewhat reminiscent of the way many Catholics studiously ignored the molestation cases because a rational reaction would require them to renounce the church they’ve invested a lot of personal identity in.

Comment #12: Chris Adams on 06/07 at 02:24 PM

there are a surprising number of otherwise intelligent people who, despite every bit of evidence put in front of their lying eyes, will vote republican because they believe democrats are weak/sissies.

i have an uncle like that. educated, affluent-through-inheritance, old enough to know better—he sneers at the idea that a democrat might have a better plan.

Comment #13: karen marie on 06/08 at 10:14 PM

p.s. the video was horrifying

is mccain’s campaign branching out into continuing education for poli-sci dropouts now?

Comment #14: karen marie on 06/08 at 10:15 PM

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