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Gaming and politics and Ron Paul make strange bedfellows
Kotaku has sifted through the publicly available financial details for game publishers to see which Presidential campaigns they've supported over the last year. Being part of the entertainment industry, it's no surprise that game publishers love them some Democratic candidates. What is a surprise is how much Activision and Valve love them some Ron Paul.
Meanwhile, as noted on a Halo machinima site, Obama's campaign is giving back a little of that money. A representative of Electronic Arts confirmed that the Obama campaign is indeed buying ingame advertising (pictured above).
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By elburnso at 2:15 PM ON 10/14/08
Because Ron Paul ROCKS! :D
By mrgintl at 9:32 PM ON 10/14/08
Obama sucks, they should not put him in a game, it makes me less likely to buy their product.
By Enduro Man at 4:49 AM ON 10/15/08
Blow up a billboard in Mercenaries 2 and win a visit from the Secret Service!
By Lol at 10:19 PM ON 10/22/08
Why is it a surprise? Obama's a lying socialist cardboard man, McCain's respectable but misadvised and still disturbingly socialist. Ron Paul advocated the government getting the hell out of our business - and that means no intervention in video games, no telling them what they can and cannot have content wise, etc. Ron Paul supported liberty and free market capitalism - he would have been good for everyone except the bottom of the pile social leeches who suck the sweat from other men's brows to make their livings.
Oh, and a lot of game developers are probably pot heads :D As with all thing, Ron Paul supported going back to the contitution and the founding fathers when it came to prohibition of any kind - meaning NO prohibition (people tend to think that the founding fathers couldn't have known what a "problem" drugs would be, the original GW (George Washington) grew hemp and was rumored to smoke hash, communications from several founding fathers and early presidents confirm that they smoked hash, and several of them spoke of prohibition as basically the rape of the American ideal (Lincoln, though not a founding father of course, made a particularly striking statement, "Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
So, yeah, Ron Paul was pretty awesome. He didn't have a chance, of course - he wasn't willing to get on his knees and suck special interests' balls for money like Obama, or in posession of longtime powerful connections like McCain. Winning the presidency is about having the most cash, the most face time and press support, not the best ideas.