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.

Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[slifox]

I personally favor the Fingerlicans...
 
...although, the Tastycrats do make a good point about that titanium tax...

muahaha, gotcha...

[ckuttruff]

McCain Camp:
So through the course of our research we've found that you've modified some of the sections on your policy positions...

*coughs (and that you have twenty times the traffic we do)

Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[gilroy]

Sadly, everyone's gonna end up voting for the Brain Slug Party... again.

Re:http://www.barackobama.com/robots.txt

[thrillseeker]

what'd be nice is if politicians adhered to theconstitution.txt

Re:muahaha, gotcha...

[paeanblack]

So through the course of our research we've found that you've modified some of the sections on your policy positions...

*coughs (and that you have twenty times the traffic we do)

How else do you expect people to keep up with all of those policy position changes?

We have unequivocal proof...

[languagehacker]

...that someone spending almost all their time going across the country talking to people about different issues actually changed his mind about where he stands on certain topics. As Republicans, this is foreign to us, and upsetting to think about.

Re:New Meme

[neomunk]

I mean, you're trying to be cute, but if you roll the die a thousand times hoping that NEXT TIME it'll wash your dishes instead of providing the information on one of the die's faces, you've touched upon what the GP is talking about.

Re:New Meme

[Ihlosi]

I hear one definition of insanity is repeating the same action while expecting a different result each time.

I knew it: Quantum physics and statistics are insanity.

Re:Why is updating your policy positions bad again

[Spad]

Or to put it another way:

"I may be a fucking moron, but at least I'm consistantly a fucking moron".

Re:Mmmhmm

[cswiii]

I hear that if you accumulate ten McCain Points, you can trade them in for a liver spot.

Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[ari_j]

The problem is that the Fingerlicans' ten-cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough.

The sad part is that the Libertarian Party really has built a reputation as being the Dudes For The Legalation Of Hemp party. If not for that, people wouldn't be afraid to be libertarian because they wouldn't have to always be saying "I'm libertarian with a lowercase ell" to people.

Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[TheRaven64]

Don't vote for the apathy part!

Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[Hotawa Hawk-eye]

ALL HAIL PRESIDENT HYPNOTOAD.

Re:New Meme

[mpweasel]

Why not pencil in Powell as a candidate on the ballet?!

Because Powell can't dance as well as the other two?

Re:New Meme

[Anonymous Coward]

Alright, so now we have the definition of 'different' down. But, I'm still having problems with the definition of 'is'

Care to help me in this quest of pedantry?

Re:New Meme

[Tacvek]

Brings back memories of the "Dole for Bananas" bumper stickers.

Re:New Meme

[mrogers]

I knew it: Quantum physics and statistics are insanity.

Hey, that's not fair. Statistics is sane on average, it's just insane in every single instance.

Re:New Meme

[Anonymous Coward]

Why not pencil in Powell as a candidate on the ballet?!
I'd hate to see him in tights.

Numbers?

[XanC]

I'm pretty sure that federal revenue goes up when taxes are cut.

Re:the third parties are running idiots too.....

[mrchaotica]

WTF? Cynthia McKinney is running for President too? Damn, between her and Bob Barr us Georgians sure blew our "nutjob running for President" quota out of the water!

Can I assume that McCain

[teamhasnoi]

had help?

Re:the third parties are running idiots too.....

[Eli Gottlieb]

Why don't we start a new party? Left on economic matters, libertarian against the nanny state?

We can call it... the Forwards Party. Actually, no, that name's cursed. AH! How about the Optimism Party? Ain't nobody can argue with that!

Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[Culture20]

Hypnotoad can only control the meatspace. Once the robot vote goes through, Nixon will win again.

Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[aliquis]

You want to join our wanking group yourself as well? Please do, everyone is welcome .. Just ask for it and someone will give you a helping hand.

Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[pluther]

To be fair, the libertarian rants on Slashdot typically center around how the weak should be left to die

And the Democrats want to eat babies and the Republicans want to drink blood.

Yeah, but at least they lie about it.

Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[Gulthek]

Nixon lost the robot vote when he flipped his position on having a huge robot body.

Re:The Goods

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, mod this funny. That's one of the best hippie rant impersonations I've ever read.

Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[a_real_bast...]

This is why I prefer 'value'-neutral statements in politics. For instance: Bush is an irresponsible, know-little bastard who has never learned there are such things are consequences. Most, if not all, of his cabinet are (and were) bastards looking to skew the entire country to their own advantage and/or advance their own strange ideology, even when it takes ignoring reality (an honourable exception is Ms. Rice: she's a bitch who [insert previous rant here]). And his party are spineless twats who would not challenge a president from their side, no matter how stupid, arrogant, and unconstitutional the action. Even when he declared he could ignore Congress if he wanted to, the people whose power he'd just land-grabbed continued to support him! Even the most uninterested know-nothing is generally self-interested enough to start making noise then, but no...

Isn't that much better than just calling them 'evil'? Cathartic, even. (",)

Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref.

[Oktober Sunset]

An exclamation mark? That's it, you're kicked out of the party.