john mccain's new & improved facebook page: now with video game!

[NatBurner]

that'll bring in the youth vote!!

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/20/on-facebook-its-game-on-for-mccain/



CNN) – Anyone who thought John McCain’s campaign – which launched its very first Facebook application just two days ago – would make a major push on the social networking Web site when pigs fly… is right.

McCain’s new “Pork Invaders” application, launched Friday, is a video game that requires users to dodge incoming projectiles from flying pigs. If a user takes a hit from one of the application’s pigs, the user loses one of the three lives granted at the beginning of the game.

How do you kill the flying pigs? By shooting off vetoes. With each pig killed by a veto, users rack up millions of tax dollars as their score, and progress to the next level — but only after the game lays out campaign talking points like comparing the respective records of Sen. McCain and his rival, Sen. Barack Obama, on earmarks.

On Wednesday, the McCain camp launched “Campaign Cribs: Straight Talk Express” on Facebook, an application that allows users to take a video tour of McCain’s campaign bus.

McCain currently has approximately 150,000 supporters on Facebook while Obama now has roughly 1,020,000 supporters on the site.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Nothing says "hip" like an early-1980s videogame reference.

:rofl:

[NatBurner]

3. if he'd put tron on there, i'd click it

they're already crucifying this in the comments section-

i'm still waiting to see if i get "moderated" or not

[blondeatlast]

2. Uh, oh. McCain's exhausted his supply of supporters who can navigate Facebook. nt

[NatBurner]

7. all 150k of 'em

[blondeatlast]

9. Can his camp train enough before Septemebt to do any good? They prolly are a little

suspicious of those damn contuper contraptions.

[high density]

4. Pork Invaders?

Sounds nasty.

[TheDonkey]

5. I'm waiting for "McCain leaves the band"!!!

Anyone get this primaries joke. ;D

[Thrill]

6. Most people don't know what the hell he's talking about when he says Pork Spending

[SoCalDem]

8. Awww how sweet.. John discovered PONG !

:)