So I am now on John McCain’s media mailing list.
My God, that man is busy.
I get 5 or 6 emails a day from his campaign, announcing conference calls, denouncing whatever Obama happened to say that day, then announcing a conference call to denounce Obama. McCain also does a lot of general “politicking” all over the place too. I think he was in Missouri today or will be tomorrow… I don’t read the emails in much detail.
Frankly, I don’t understand how presidential candidates stay on their feet.
I stay on the list because it’s vaguely interesting, and my inbox at work doesn’t get all that full anyway, so I have time to read it. It is a little odd for a Canadian reporter who currently works on a show that talks about Canadian politics to be on a John McCain mailing list, but I needed some info on his visit to Ottawa this Friday.
Entertaining things about poking around for that story:
- Introducing myself as someone with the “Canadian Broadcasting Corporation” rather than CBC Radio
- Discovering that the Republican website is plastered with pictures of Obama, with nary a McCain to be found (seems to have changed since I first saw it, now with at least 1 McCain related item, so the humour is somewhat lost now)
- Getting an item that’s under embargo (in another country… not that I would break it, but what would the legal consequences be in that case?)
- Mystifying people with the simple question, “So why is he coming to Canada?”
