Can someone explain where this "I approve this message" came from?  I've thought all this before but after the latest John McCain commercial where it's his face, his voice I have to give into the madness and ask why?

How in blue blazes does this make any sense?  If you see an ad for a Candidate and it's not them talking I could maybe see the point of "I approve this message".  But when you have the face of the candidate staring at you while speaking, the words match the way his lips are moving it's bizarre. To say "I approve this message" when you can cleary see and hear what is coming out of his mouth?  Am I the only one that finds this.....ummm....dumb?

Are we supposed to believe it's possible to see them moving their lips saying something but unless they say "I approve this message" there is a gun to their head or they won't get their afternoon cookie? Does that mean if they don't say it then we should think they're telling us something they really don't believe?  Don't we have to worry about that anyway?

My name is Marsha, and I approve this blog