Useless Idiots

Can anyone say electoral radioactive poison?

Hot on the heels of the release of the Iraq Study Group Report -- and a day in which 10 U.S. servicemen were killed and at least 84 Iraqis were blown up or shot -- prospective presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will join with Joe Lieberman to hold a press conference today at 3 pm ET to announce the launch of a television PSA campaign about... video game ratings.

Advice to staffers of Hillary and Joe - particularly Hillary. Take a look at that wave graphic in the sidebar. Go look at the census data on the Millennial Generation. Read just about all the posts on this website. Recognize that the average age of video gamers is about 30, and millions of voters play video games. The Video Game Voters Network has almost 2000 friends on their MySpace page and they are growing. VVN is only the beginning of organizing gamers - they're going to get bigger and more organized, and the gamer demographic is a constituency that campaigns are going to need to pay attention to.

Young voters pulled through big for Democrats this year. You need us to win the primary, and the Presidency. Why are you trying so hard to alienate us?

Update Add potential Democratic nominee Evan Bayh to this idiocy. And check out the video of Hillary's remarks on this "issue:"

For more information about why Hillary is dead wrong about the relationship between video games and violence, go here, here, here, read this book, and go here. For more on why this is a horrible policy issue for Democrats, read this book.