Posted on 03/03/2010 9:35:16 AM PST by patriot08
The following announcement was on The Obama File this morning:
I would like to thank the 7 people who contributed to the support of The Obama File in the last 48 hours.
I hate to put that reminder on this site, and I only do it once a month.
I have decided to convert The Obama File into a subscription only site because of lack of support.
If you don't care, I don't care.
I don't know how long it will take, but I am suspending posts until the conversion is complete.
I will direct my activities today to returning all 10 contributions received in the last two weeks and contacting a consultant who can perform the necessary work to convert this site to subscription only.
Anyone who has contributed to the support of The Obama File in the last six months will be automatically enrolled as life subscribers, and will never need to pay another dime.
This is a done deal.
Any contributions received after this notice is posted WILL NOT BE RETURNED.
And please don't send me any emails telling me how important it is to continue operations, and how much this site will be missed.
Beckwith . . .
It's a sad day when the excellent Obama data base, The Obama File, which the United States Library of Congress selected for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials, folds because we were too miserly and uncaring to donate a few dollars a month to our fellow FReeper, Beckwith, to help with maintainance expenses for his website. Now the public will be deprived of the best Obama data base on the net.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much for providing those links, Servant of the Cross:
‘We celebrated his birthday last July’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302530/posts
‘He’s been profiled in the news’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=105418
and
TheObamaFile/Beckwith threads have been plentiful on FR for years.
http://no-bama.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-file-wash-po-and-barack-obamas.html
Any responsible Freeper would go back and read those links
and find out what Beckwith accomplished, find out what a fine patriot he was and make some sort of apology for their unwarrented, vicious attacks. But these sort of attackers won’t.
They’re not men/women enough.
They were having too much fun showing off with each other.
Well, now I know the true character of some of our ‘FReepers’ and so do many others.
As I said, it doesn’t faze me. Since Beckwith educated me and I started fighting with the ‘Rats, I’m used to it.
Like water off a duck’s back.
Yes, RINO Perry wipped out even-worse-RINO Hutchison and Ron Paul truther/nutter Medina. Made my day.
I’m sorry you construe a rebuff of demand for payment as an attack on an individual. I said nothing about the quality - or lack thereof - of his website, simply that a “no one paid so I’m leaving” is rather childish, and given the quality of the site rather extreme. I would be quite shocked if his actual out-of-pocket costs were more than $100 a year...
If you want to earn money for being a clearing house/consolidator of other information, do what Drudge and others do: sell advertisement. Oh wait - that website HAS advertisements on it. Perhaps traffic wasn’t high enough to make any money?
Obama file? Never heard of it.
Theobamafile was exactly that. The man put in countless hours collecting , organizing, and publishing everything he could about the usurper that is now in the white house. It is (was) an invaluable reference tool.
I visited his site often and donated as much as I could.
It was selected by the Library of Congress as a reference source.
His site is second to none.
I'll become a subscriber as soon as Beckwith starts up again.
Mea Culpa; this is what happens when we figure that someone else (in better financial straits) will get the job done.
A couple bucks here and there might have helped a lot, if enough people had chipped in.
Just think, you can recycle your infernal Orly spam with minimal editing. That was highly effective, lol.
You see I give so little of a crap about “Beckwith” and your faux angry tears that I won’t even click on the links you sent.
Kindly piss off.
It costs me about a hundred buck a year for my site! I am sure there are cheaper ones.
“Nowhere else does such a data base exist.”
Only in your warped mind!
Since it was a blog, glad it’s dead!
Ad Hominem attacks are what Democrats do.
You made Ad Hominem attacks.
Connect the dots.
Never heard of it.
Whey did you spam Freep Mail over and over again?
Should have been “Why” did you spam 18 times to Freep Mail. Counted as I deleted! :)
Always sorry to see a ‘fighter’ pull out of the fight
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