Dennis McCauley of GamePolitics addresses the recent appearance of 2008 presidential hopeful Mark Warner in MMO Second Life, a move which some have called smart and others suicide.

Warner held a small press conference in Second Life, appearing as a reasonable simulacrum of himself and giving tongue to his views on Iraq and reproductive rights, and studiously ignoring various hijinx perpetrated by attendees, one of whom was wearing an avatar that made him into a series of tubes.

Still, there were some obvious problems. Warner's avatar was just this side of creepy, resembling nothing so much as the G-Man from Half-Life 2. Plus, there's a certain amount of freaky avatar sex going on in certain areas of Second Life. Uh, so I'm told ... . When rival campaigns "go negative," as they invariably will, could Warner's Second Life visit be spun as an excursion to some type of animated porn site?

Whatever the outcome, I applaud Warner's sheer sack to have done this at all. Although I'm inclined to agree with one of the commentors on the original post, who requests that Warner lead a PvP raid. Eliza Gauger

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