Desperately Seeking Sucking

“In an oppressive political system. Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.” –George Orwell

In the cognitive cesspool called MySpace, the latest big trend has been for political campaigns to establish their online presences there in hopes of reaching the youth vote.

And you can see this from their perspective: with campaigns becoming increasingly costly, any platform that gives you the ability to potentially reach nearly a third of the US population is compelling on the basis of sheer numbers alone.

But you wonder if campaigns have properly considered the questionable intelligence of many MySpace denizens, who are hard pressed to talk in any terms more scholarly than text-message shorthand.

You also have to wonder if they really understand technology itself. And here’s a hilarious little piece from the desk of internet all-star Mike D (of MikeIndustries.com and sIFR fame.)

It seems that McCain’s Straight Talk Express was straight-up stealing bandwidth. And Mike got even.

Hilarious, and it expresses just how clueless our leaders fundamentally are when it comes to technology policy. They have the top-down view, but, at least this time, they got humbled by the bottom-up.