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Here's an interesting story. Apparently a bunch of workers at a call center contracted by the McCain campaign to make calls slamming Obama have walked off the job in protest:
Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."
Williams' daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it's located in Hobart, IN.
Why do those workers hate America and love the terrorists?
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Team McCain has a call center with at least 40 telemarketers? Who knew? :) -DJ
Q: How many telemarketers does it take for McCain to lose an election?
A: None, they have machines that do that now.
Posted by: DingoJack | November 1, 2008 11:10 AM
It appears Ed has never worked at a call center.
Posted by: kehrsam | November 1, 2008 11:22 AM
Kurt, you never cease to make me laugh (he writes from the call center where he works).
Posted by: The Christian Cynic | November 1, 2008 11:36 AM
Too bad McCain isn't as principled as those telemarketers.
Posted by: Delaware Dave | November 1, 2008 11:59 AM
DingoJack: Only reason he has telemarketers working is that in some states robocalls are prohibited otherwise the joke would be spot on.
Posted by: Who Cares | November 1, 2008 1:18 PM
So let me get this straight, McCain is less ethical than telemarketers? The guys who'll call people at random knowing full well how annoying it is all day long will draw the line at the smear tactics of McCain?
I have a newfound respect for them now.
Posted by: Robert | November 1, 2008 2:23 PM
I find McCain really rather sad at this point. A decade ago, I respected the man. Didn't agree with him on many issues, but saw him as an honest representative of the people of his home state. Since then, he voted to convict in the impeachment of Clinton and it has been down hill from there on. Following the assault on his character and family in the 2000 primaries, I think he has honestly cracked. Over the last 5 years he has become a partisan hack, shifting further and further to the extreme of his party going from someone who nominally supported his party and president's policies (but often clashing) to someone who supported his president over 95% of the time (this last year +/- ). Now, with this campaign, I can honestly say I will never vote for the guy. Not this year in the presidential election, not in '10 when he will (likely) be going up for reelection to the Senate. I'll vote for a cockroach before I'll vote for McCain. He has destroyed every single principle and value he ever stood for.
Posted by: dogmeatib | November 1, 2008 3:01 PM
It has come to pass that some of the people who run for the highest office in the land have fewer scruples and less of a moral compass than telemarketers, and these people are within a few percentage points of winning. How has it come to this?
And how do we climb out of this hole?
Posted by: Art | November 1, 2008 4:42 PM
First, stop digging.
Posted by: BaldApe | November 1, 2008 8:12 PM
I largely agree with Dogmeatib, but I'd like to add that McCain began his downward journey a bit prior to the 2000 campaign, when he embraced neoconservatism on foreign policy issues.
Posted by: Paul Sunstone | November 1, 2008 8:34 PM
To make sense of my earlier post please refer to the 538 post here and scroll down to pictures of the hive of Team McCain activity (when not carefully staged). Thank you DJ
Posted by: DingoJack | November 2, 2008 9:06 AM