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McCain Camp Consults Precogs, Declares Victory
Friday, September 26th, 2008At least an hour before John McCain announced he’d even be attending tonight’s debate, his campaign had already bought ads declaring he won it.
“McCain Wins Debate!” declares the ad which features a headshot of a smiling McCain with an American flag background. Another ad spotted by our eagle-eyed observer featured a quote from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis declaring: “McCain won the debate– hands down.”
as Sullivan points out, who thinks McCain’s campaign doesn’t create its own reality?
I always thought they waited till after the event, like they do with the Super Bowl t-shirts.
Maybe I am just naive.
Perhaps he has the chinese government doing his marketing work?
j.d.
I was about to post the same thing. That, or Walter Mercado has joined his campaign.
Well, he invented the Blackberry. Who’s to say he didn’t invent time-travel? After all, he was a POW.
> as Sullivan points out, who thinks McCain’s campaign doesn’t
> create its own reality?
I doubt either McCain or Obama even sees half the junk their campaigns make.
>I always thought they waited till after the event, like they do with
> the Super Bowl t-shirts. …Maybe I am just naive.
You are. Clothing is made declaring both sides the victor; the ones that are “correct” are then sold, while the others are either destroyed or shipped to third-world where the dominant language isn’t English (such as Guatemala, where this site once linked a story of a couple intrepid fellows once tracked down a “wrong” hat in order to taunt their friends back home).
Perhaps the campaign guys consulted Palin; her church does after all beleive in prophecy.
I wonder how Truman feels about it.
Honeyko, I’m pretty sure Marc was being sarcastic about the t-shirts.
This isn’t the first time the McCain camps ad buyers have gotten ahead or the rest of the campaign.
Danno beat me to it.
Precogs have been around since 1948, probably earlier.
This is now particularly absurd in light of how the debate actually played out: mostly boring and predictably conventional, with little real decisive “win” for either candidate. In short, nothing worth trumpeting about.
So……. I completely missed the sucker. Anything spicy?
Did William Ayers come up?
This post mentions “William Ayers” too!
Downgrade it! It’ll make it go away when you put your hands over your eyes!
#2: ANYONE who disagrees with McCain is naive according to him. Even if the advice of those same “naive” people is later endorsed by people McCain doesn’t consider “naive.”
All McCain did during that debate was smirk, distort Obama’s statements–even when called on it– and call Obama naive. And he never has explained or apologized for that “Bomb Iran” bullshit. I remember that shit from 1980 and how my “peers” used to harass the two Iranian students in our class by singing it.
I wasn’t an Obama supporter before this debate, but I’m rapidly becoming one. I lliked the way he handled himself, I think his take on Musarraf was correct, and he seems to have a good grasp of tactics and strategy. McCain’s behaviors on the campaign trail are those of a man without honor. (That is NOT the same as saying someone is without honor. Semanticists take note.) And I still can’t stomach Bob Barr. His recent conversion to libertarianism reminds me of the line from a Louis Jordan song: “Your story is so touching but it sounds just like a lie.”
And I don’t give a rat’s ass about Bill Ayers. So go ahead and downgrade me, too.
> I liked the way he handled himself
> …
> I don’t give a rat’s ass about Bill Ayers.
A perfect example of “placing trivialities before essentials”.
When John Kerry made himself a mouthpiece of Soviet front-groups in the 70s, he automatically disqualified himself. When Obama politically weaned himself at the foot of, and later praised, an unabashedly unrepentant Weather Underground bomber, he automatically disqualified himself.
– The reason you people get to endure a succession of low-quality Republican presidents is directly attributable to the Democrats contemporary unwillingness to nominate any opposition which hasn’t had the ultra-hard-left’s seal-of-approval. Essentially, the Republicans can afford to be unprincipled, lazy and stupid when the opposition is so unelectable.
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