Joshua Levy of techPresident brings me back…

Remember the Email Wars of 2007, when Chris Dodd would send an email designed to look like it was quickly tapped out on a BlackBerry, and Barack Obama would do the same (plagiarist!) two days later? Then Bill Richardson would forward a message from his staffer as if he was sending pictures of cats around the office; Obama would return fire by having one of his supporters send us an email in his stead; and Dodd remained the king by sending yet more stripped-down emails featuring impressive brevity and lack of HTML formatting. Those were the days.

Those were heady times in internet politics. It was a ton of fun to be a part of, particularly working alongside of internet gurus in the little Dodd campaign department. There was no doubt in my mind that Tim Tagaris and my coworkers were coming up with some really cool new ways to communicate with our supporters. Sure, a lot of it is inside baseball, but hey, that never hurt anyone.

Levy, after deconstructing a horrendous email treatise sent by the McCain campaign, writes:

Sigh. Where’s Chris Dodd’s team when you need them?

Well, we’re certainly not working for the McCain campaign Josh!