Clinton critics corner market on domain names

Associated Press | July 14, 2003

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LITTLE ROCK (AP) — A $5 million museum is in the works as a counterweight to Bill Clinton's presidential library, but it only takes $30 to affect the Internet debate over the former president's legacy.

The Clinton Presidential Foundation, the nonprofit group in charge of building the official $160 million library and policy center, didn't get to use the obvious Web addresses — ClintonLibrary.org and ClintonLibrary.com — because those addresses were already taken for a $30 registration fee.

ClintonLibrary.com is being held for a $9,500 ransom. And Greg Forsythe, a 28-year-old graduate student from Huntsville, Ala., created ClintonLibrary.org to link to other anti-Clinton sites, including the site of the Counter Clinton Library group that has plans for an anti-Clinton museum.

ClintonPresidentialCenter.org was the best name left for the official library.

Foundation president Skip Rutherford says the Internet site names don't bother him, and insists the more cumbersome name is better anyway for what will be a museum, policy center and graduate school campus, as well as a library.

"You can't spend time worrying about people who hate," Rutherford said. "Clinton will always draw this kind of attention because he's the most intriguing, interesting political figure of our time."

Knowing that the buzz over Clinton's presidential legacy inspires thousands of Web surfers to visit ClintonLibrary.org, Forsythe uses the site to taunt those who want information on the real library. He tells them that their only option is to "go Greyhound ... for an authentic Arkansas experience." Below that is a photograph of Clinton smiling at pop diva Mariah Carey, who's dressed in a skin-tight, low-cut tank top.

"The photo really speaks for itself and it sums up the Clinton years," Forsythe said. "He has this wolfish grin."

Forsythe says he isn't a "hard-core Clinton hater" and is more bemused than angered by the Clinton years, but he also admires the work of the Counter-Clinton Library.

"It looks to be pretty right-wing, but it's interesting stuff," he said.

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"You can't spend time worrying about people who hate," Rutherford said.

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

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"Clinton will always draw this kind of attention because he's the most intriguing, interesting political figure of our time."

Charlie Manson is interesting and intriguing as well.

Better looking than Bill too.

[aShepard]

..."anyway for what will be a museum, policy center and graduate school campus, as well as a library"...

As well as the second floor peep show and pork-atorium.

[cardinal4]

You can't spend time worrying about people who hate," Rutherford said. "Clinton will always draw this kind of attention because he's the most intriguing, interesting political figure of our time."

Who needs Ipecac or castor oil?

[steplock]

I really appreciate all the sites that ruitherford suggested!

This one - ref from clintonlibrary.org

NASCAR to Create Separate Racing Leagues for Blacks, Women (and anyone else who complains)

By Dred Locke and John W. Albanese
BSNN.net Headline News

CRACKEROPLIS, N.C. — NASCAR officials yesterday confirmed that in an effort to combat lingering suspicions that it is the last bastion of white male supremacy it will create two new separate but equal racing leagues. One league, tentatively titled the Bush League, will be open only to women competitors, while the other league, the KFC Bucket Series, will be exclusively for African-American drivers.
http://www.bsnn.net/

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They can always try BJ Liebrary.smut...RapistLiebrary.porn...ImpeachedAH.slime...

They have plenty of choices.

FMCDH

[hauerf]

"ClintonPresidentialCenter.org was the best name left for the official library."

I kick myself around the block for not registering that obvious web site name for my new hog fecal matter scraper (ie, the "Clinton Presidential Center Hog Fecal Matter Scraper", available soon at better farm product stores everywhere).

[Drango]

California Legislature Orders Gray Davis Hospitalized --

California lawmakers invoked an obscure 100-year-old lunacy statute allowing them to have a governor institutionalized when that governor's policies are "clearly insane."

LOL

[Cicero]

The Inventor of the Internet should have warned the Most Moral President Ever about this, so he could have avoided this problem. I guess he must have been busy building a bridge to the nineteenth century.

[Cicero]

The Inventor of the Internet should have warned the Most Moral President Ever about this, so he could have avoided this problem. I guess he must have been busy building a bridge to the nineteenth century.

[syriacus]

I tried www.billsabubba.com and got the response that the specified server could not be found.

Billsablubba.com is still available, too.

[syriacus]

How about dressblue.com?