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Disgraced McCain aide Soren Dayton obsessed with Obama

Who is Soren Dayton, the McCain campaign aide suspended over a YouTube link on Twitter? He's a consultant specializing in "'modern' ('new') media communications," an alumnus of the University of Chicago and the National Defense University, and a Republican true believer. Here he's pictured with evangelical republican La Shawn Barber at the BlogWorld conference, and she's, like, totally black! So he's not necessarily racist, just an opportunist who knows a good smear video when he sees one.

Reading between the posts at his election blog, I gather that he joined the McCain campaign in February. Before that, he also kept an eye on the liberal blogosphere at TechPresident and followed the McCain primary campaign on RedState. According to his LinkedIn profile, he's been a legislative aide and worked at database software company OverX. 88 supporters have signed up to the Facebook group put together by Joshua Treviño.

Coming to his defense, conservative blogger Patrick Ruffini at Townhall admits to being "looser" on Twitter because of a false sense of security. Is that like a friend who only uses slurs when there aren't any minorities around? Steve Rhodes captured a screenshot of Dayton's Twitter account shortly before it was deleted. What was going through the man's mind at the time?

Obama, Obama, Obama . If Republican Web strategists paid a little more attention to their own candidate, McCain would have a higher profile online.

11:20 AM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Jackson West
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Dweezil at 11:28 AM on 03/21/08
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Just another case of the white man being kept down.
mediawhoremeow at 11:33 AM on 03/21/08
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@Dweezil

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wheelie at 11:57 AM on 03/21/08
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" . . . a consultant in Washington, DC specializing in .... "modern" ("new") media communications"

Gotta love that. The agony he must have went through trying to draft that line just right:

"I specialize in modern media . . ."
(Nope, not quite right. I don't mean modern TV and radio, I mean the internets. Try again.)

"I specialize in NEW media . . ."
(Yes, much better. No wait - they might think I mean only Iphone and Wii and stuff. Hmmmm.)

*7 hours and 6 cups of coffee later*

" . . . specialising in "modern" ("new") media . . ."

(Yay! Nailed it!!)
Rick at 12:56 PM on 03/21/08
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Can it be a smear when it's true? Only if the target is Obama, apparently.
OpenTransport at 01:21 PM on 03/21/08
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Alumnus, you mean? Or is he two or more people at once?
sample032 at 02:17 PM on 03/21/08
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@OpenTransport: Some of us take our grammar naziing, especially the Latin variety (which Mussolini would so approve of) directly to the writers. It just seems less pedantic.
wonky-tonk at 02:38 PM on 03/21/08
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CNN=strip Once again "Science" has re-proven giving to charity makes one happy...that's why the holidays are always joyous...WOW!

In related news CNN's Kyra Phillips volunteers to help extend Sunni Bagdhad fasion-runway all the way to the million refugees in Syria..."Science truly works!!"
CessnaDriver172 at 07:55 PM on 03/21/08
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Who is the in the picture this scolex is using as an avatar? I am reminded of a picture of a confederate-it looks like Lewis Powell, who stabbed Seward, but I'm not sure.