McCain Supports Gay Marriage

At least, his Myspace page claimed he supported it for a while this morning. A McCain staffer swiped a template page from Seattle-based news-sharing site Newsvine and when Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson figured out that the template was directing a lot of traffic to an image hosted by Newsvine he swapped it with his own message of tolerance. Instead of a generic list of links McCain's site began displaying an announcement of his support for gay marriage.

From Mike's (currently slow-loading) account:

Numerous people have written me over the last few weeks to tell me that McCain has been using my code, but up until I realized he was pulling images from my server, I didn't really care. A lot of celebrities including Ryan "Van Wilder" Reynolds and the beautiful Nelly Furtado use my code and I'm totally cool with it.
But then I read the article in today's Newsweek about how politicians are all setting up MySpace pages in order to "connect" with younger audiences. McCain's MySpace page is listed, as are the pages from several other candidates. I think the idea of politicians setting up MySpace pages and pretending to actually use them is a bit disingenuous, so I figured it was time to play a little prank on Johnny Mac.

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By Dan in News on March 28, 2007 11:04 AM

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Mike D.

Hi, it's Mike D. of this very prank.

Seth: Clearly McCain has built up a bit of leeway and forgiveness because of his service in the war. That is why I would never publicly trash the guy. That doesn't mean he's not subject to a harmless prank now and then though. Before this prank, he had 2300ish MySpace friends. Now he's over 3000. That's progress baby.

And by the way, I'd like to hang every person in this world without a sense of humor from their arms for a few hours. Life is too short to get angry about stuff like this.

Jake of 8bitjoystick.com

Hey bobh Do a quick google of John Kerry's Vietnam background and John McCain stumping for Bush and smearing John Kerry before you submit ignorant posts like that.

Vietnam will not help McCain ingnore the facts that his voting record has killed thousands of people in Iraq. The 2008 election is going to be about the bloody meat grinder in Iraq... not Vietnam.

bigyaz

Jake of 8bitjoystick.com:

You might want to do a quick Google of McCain's background as a POW before you submit ignorant posts like #4.

Clint

Politics aside, I agree with Mike that politicians' use of MySpace is disinginuous. And really fucking lame. Leave MySpace to the people who won't be voting in any election because they need to update their profile and add more friends to their page.

Jake of 8bitjoystick.com

Personally as a hard core Democrat I love McCain. He is the perfect Republican candidate to loose the whitehouse in 2008.

1. He is older that Bob Dole was in 96. Heck he can even out “Bob Dole” Bob Dole.

2. He is further to the right on Iraq war than George W Bush. Bush should be down in the mid to lower twenties by November 2008 and all the stumping and sucking up that McCain did for Bush in 2004 and 2000 is going to come back and bit him in the ass big time.

3. He can out “John Kerry” John Kerry. He has a long twisted voting record that can be distorted and any Vietnam war hero stuff can be ignored in favor for Iraq. In 2004 John Kerry wanted to talk about Iraq but folks attacked him over Vietnam. McCain wants to talk about Nam but Iraq is going to dominate the conversation and they can’t win.

whoa

The best part about this post is Seth. Are you a McCain supporter in earnest, or are you satirizing their behavior? Either way, it's hilarious.

Jake of 8bitjoystick.com

I’m sorry Seth what bloody en-ending war based on lies are you talking about? Iraq or Nam. Cause I don’t think there even are POW camps any more in Iraq basically if our troops are captured they are pretty much either shot on site or beheaded and the video released on the net. But since John McCain is so old and he has made so many bloody votes on this war I could see how he could get confused. It is not like he threw his medals at the white house or anything crazy like that he just wants to keep out boys and girls in the crosshairs.

Seth

Yeah, well, you get the right to make a few mistakes when you SPEND YOUR EARLY 30s IN A PRISON CAMP, REFUSING A STANDING VIETCONG OFFER OF RELEASE UNTIL EVERY OTHER PRISONER IN THE CAMP IS SET FREE, instead of writing stupid goddamn blog posts about pointless shit like the Mariners' new backup catcher.

(please visit Seattlest.com tomorrow for a post about the Mariners' new backup catcher.)

Jake of 8bitjoystick.com

Also Seth don’t forget about the time that John McCain voted for a war against a country that never attacked us on a plan all based on lies and the fact that he still wants to shove more of our troops in to the bloody meat grinder of Iraq. Yeah that was a funny mistake on his part. Ha ha ha…

Seth

Ha! What a funny prank, Mike!

It's like that time North Vietnamese prison guards hung McCain by his arms in the sun for three years--oh, how they all had a laugh about that.

THE MAN'S AN AMERICAN HERO AND YOU ARE A SLIMY CORN-STUDDED POO!