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Obama's MySpace Drama
fistfullast33l writes "TechPresident, which is covering the use of technology by Presidential Campaigns for 2008, has a very interesting article on how Obama's MySpace page is currently the subject of an underground battle for control by the campaign itself and the volunteer who created it in 2004. Joseph Anthony worked with the campaign initially and grew the site to include over 160,000 unsolicited friends that the campaign could use to reach out to. It currently is the main Obama page in the Impact Channel on MySpace. However, as Obama's campaign became more centralized and formal, the decision was made to attempt to acquire control of the site from Anthony. They asked him for a price, which he offered up as $49,000 plus part of the $10,000 fee paid to MySpace for the Impact Channel. Obama balked at the price, and decided to start afresh rather than pay the money. The fight broke out into the open when Anthony posted a response on his blog to rumors that the campaign was spreading regarding him wanting to cash out. MyDD has more."
I can see this one spinning well on the popular news channels.
_Vishal www.squad9.com
"Hilary threatened by black man" - too true. At least he's electable, which is more than can be said for Hilary.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Except with Obama, there isn't much of a voting record to look at.
He was a STATE senator for Illinois when he was made an instant celebrity by being allowed to make the keynote at the '04 convention. He's basically a stuffed shirt with barely any political experience, and no executive experience whatsoever. It makes him very attractive in the early running because he doesn't have a lot of bad past decisions to run away from the way any experienced politician would, but in the long haul the Shrill Harpie from Little Rock... er... I mean New York... is going to mop the floor with him.
After all, she's a second-term US Senator who also has 8 years experience of telling the President what to do.
I don't know what's scarier, the fact that the Democrat race is shaping up to be these two and the Breck Girl, or that the Republican race is down to the Crazy-Go-Nuts Former POW, the Drag Queen Mayor, and the Book-of-Mormon Thumper.
Out of the six, I'm narrowly leaning towards the Drag Queen Mayor... but praying for SOMEBODY better to come along than these six freaks. I don't care which party. Just find me a candidate I can actually be HAPPY about supporting. Is that so much to ask?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
You are a fucking idiot. Actually, this is slashdot. You've probably never fucked anything but your hand.
This is different because the official campaign has been working with him from day one. This isn't so new site that became popular overnight. As usual, a politician stole from a citizen who he is supposed to represent. In *that* sense, there is no news.
This whole story is just another proof that only a dead and dismembered politician is a good one.
Dude, again, YOU NEED TO READ BEFORE YOU POST!
He did not set out to make a profit! He first asked to be apart of the campaign as a contributor (by maintaining his myspace page). They rejected this, saying instead that they wanted to give a one-time payment and take total control. So he gave them a very generous offer (considering he had invested money in the page, and spent three years of his life working on it). So, they just took what they wanted.
Seriously consider reading before you respond. I suspect that you are actually a really smart person trapped in an extremely lazy body.
No this is a perfect example of how Obama is planning on operating in the white house.
Everyone needsto look at this as a clear window into how Obama thinks and acts.
He does not want to compensate people for their work, he wants to steal it.
Hey, actions speak louder than words and Obama is proving to people that he is as much of a scumbag as the current whitehouse residents.
I never liked the guy, he gave me the same "icky" feeling that the democrats gave me the last presidential election.
Why do they trot out these silver spoon idiots instead of a real leader every 4 years?
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
And even if they were, Democratic policies tend to reward the lower and middle class, thereby satisfying (from a utilitarian standpoint) a higher majority than the Republicans.
Hell, retarded values-voters who have been happily voting Repub, then bending over as they and their families' futures are sold down the river by Republicans who continually ass-fuck their "base" for the benefit of the top 1%, even those Republicans will ultimately be helped by democratic policies. Even if it means fags get to marry, which they'll hate and confuse with "policies that hurt them" when in reality it has jack and shit to do with their red necked ignorant asses.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
I see someone's been wearing the tin foil hat too long.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.