Surfing about, running down the blog-o-roll, there is this ad blip from MSNBC which has a blue image of McCain (is he still running?) faced up against Obama, promoting debate coverage.  It’s a mass ad buy which attaches itself to blogs by key-words and topic, hence it follows it will be there under dailykos.  The joke is that it was attached to this story.  I suppose these things are inevitable.

Meanwhile, at the Washington Monthly, something called “The John McCain Compliance Fund” has a large ad, and here I’ll go ahead and link to an item of interest (soon to be useless because the ads will donate out) to see the set of ads on the sidebar:  elecotral horse-race website — check, Polar Bears “Shame On Big Oil” fund — check, and… John McCain “Compliance Fund”.  Notwhithstanding the attempt at cross-over appeal McCain seems to be going for in advertising in the quite polarized environment of political blogs, the phrasology seems like a joke.  I gather its odd name fits into the genre of “Contractual Obligation” — surely skirts about McCain / Feingold, but we may be better off there to refer to the “Compliance Fund”.  McCain is Complying to something, even if the name demands of us to Comply to McCain.

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