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Originally Posted by BobProbst  WTF?
To be fair, it's not exactly McCain. It's Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard. |
To be even more fair, it is Goldfarb on McCain's official campaign blog. It's not like he is unattached to the McCain campaign.
I just don't understand the mentality behind it. They have apparently been hitting on this for a week or so. Did someone, somewhere do some polling that said "ridicule Obama supporters as D&D nerds. That will get our voters riled up?" or "Calling them D&D players will make them seem unAmerican" or what?
I mean, I did a lot of D&D playing in the military. I would say the mess decks of the destroyer I was serving on, or the barracks lounge tables in boot camp, my various schools and my post-destroyer duty assignment were hardly my mom's basement.
And it is not like I ever had a problem finding other players. At least in my field (Navy intelligence) we had a LOT of D&D geeks.
I just don't get it.
(And suffice it to say that I disagree about the inherent nastiness of the liberal blogs compared to the conservative blogs, but I can't think of anything remotely gaming related to say about it.
