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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:00 AM

Presidential Paintball: Clinton shoots Obama in the face

An online game that's less fun than it looks.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 03:11 PM

Another violent political game

Here is another game where you get to play politics in a violent style. The aim of the game is to control the United States politically. The country is divided up into political regions. You have a candidate and a staff. The staff includes people who look like Karl Rove and James Carville.

You can sling mud, do hatchet jobs on your opponents, wave the flag for a jingoistic appeal, and air negative tv ads. My favorite though is when I had Clinton slap Giuliani to death.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/thup/campaign-game

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 03:20 PM

stupid

Why are you giving exposure to this lame, geeky crap?

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 07:05 PM

woot

I played it as Clinton and won with 14950 points.

Yay! I love videogames.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 08:17 AM

FOX

This game was hot news on the 24 hour news stations this AM. FOX News condemned it. CNN seemed noncommittal on it's morality.

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