"And you wanted to be my latex salesman."
Posted on 08/30/2008 2:54:52 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Casual Web surfers who click on Obama-Biden.org or Obama-Biden.com might assume they'd find information about the Democratic presidential ticket.
They'd be wrong.
Both addresses divert people to a website that is harshly anti-Obama, the website of the American Issues Project.
That's the newly formed nonprofit group that flooded cable television in the battleground states of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania with ads decrying the relationship between Barack Obama and William Ayers, a founder of the radical Weather Underground who is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
It wasn't clear who is behind the trick. Christian Pinkston, spokesman for the American Issues Project, said his group had nothing to do with it.
Loyola Law School professor Richard L. Hasen, an election law expert, said he came across the "political cyber-squatting" while exploring Internet domain names linked to Obama and Biden. "I wanted to see if the campaign was quick enough to snatch up the domain names," Hasen said.
As for websites including the names of John McCain and Sarah Palin, the McCain campaign seems to have snapped them up, possibly to protect the Republican candidates against a similar ploy.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I guess the Obama folks are as web savvy as they are made out to be.
It’s the same thing with LATIMES dot com. People who surf there might mistakenly believe they’re going to visit an objective news site.
Used to be a time when campaign irregularities would prompt an investigation by authorities, but our system is so compromised anything’s fair game.
Now that’s funny.
Are they saying that Republicans are smarter and more proactive? Sounds like it to me.
Oh please... wasn’t there some form of George Bush website that highlighted him sniffing coke or something?
Where does OsamaBiden.com go?!
It’s the same thing with LATIMES dot com. People who surf there might mistakenly believe they’re going to visit an objective news site.
Oh that is good..............
Brilliant
Why would anyone assume that a web adress they had never visited before would take them to a place they want?
Just because it has Obamas name in it does not mean that it would be his site or supportive of him.
You visit the site if its not what you want then leave and go somewhere else. is this hard ofr these people to grasp?
Oh, but the Dims did capture www.mcain-romney.com....
HAH!
Snatch them up? Are they free?
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As for websites including the names of John McCain and Sarah Palin, the McCain campaign seems to have snapped them up, possibly to protect the Republican candidates against a similar ploy.
So how can a guy become President and deal with the Russians when he can't even assemble a team to reserve the usual domain name suspects.
Obama Campaign behind Smear sites
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No like Obama’s own website isn’t doing the same thing.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31096_Obama_Campaign_Behind_Anti-Palin_Smear_Site
How else are all those dupes and dopes ever going to learn the truth about the Messiah.
"And you wanted to be my latex salesman."
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