It would not be the first stupid thing the Obama campaign has done.

It's not a good idea.

But the more it exposes him and hurts his chances, the better.

John Kerry thought it was. Remember the fun people had with that?

Is It Smart to Allow Unmoderated Blogs on a Presidential Candidate's Site?

Short answer- no.

Three words, Leave It Up.

N∅B☭m☪!

To be honest, the insane rantings over at the Great Orange Satan (aka dKos) are very similar to the anti-semetic diaries at the Obama campaign site. Plants? Maybe, but more likely just Obamatons showing the world what they are, and what they stand for.

It's disgusting.

They just can't admit Obama is so incompetent, it must be someone else's fault.

Let them keep behaving like this, it's so much fun to behold.

Maybe not smart-but it is revealing!

What I find most interesting is that a diary called "Jews Against Obama" was disallowed while the anti-semetic ravings go unmoderated.

re: #6 jcm

N∅B☭m☪!

What's the symbol for the second A?

The Community Blogs at Obama 08 are no more “official” than the rantings of BDS sufferers at an Obama rally. I have a blog there, just to prove how easy it is to get one, and Senator Obama has ZERO chance of getting my vote. You could have one. It’s as simple as signing up. There’s no vetting process of any kind.

And that's what should freak out the Obama campaign. It's like opening a bar and letting anyone stand up on tables shouting whatever they like. Pretty soon you'll be known as "That bar owner who must support those nuts that believe X". Regardless if you actually believe them or not - since you allow them to do it under your roof, you are allowing them to use your credibility to support their message.

For all the talk of the Obama campaign being the cutting edge of the new information age, they sure are making a lot of freshman mistakes.

Funny how whenever you expose the Left as being Left, it has to be a right wing plot.

Shades of Rather

So the Instapundit reader thinks Dan was set up? Heck, the Instapundit reader could be Dan himself for all we know.

Moderation is the difference.

They knew that crap was there.

They approved it being there.

They left it there for months.

NO
EXCUSES,
R

re: #11 Fat Jolly Penguin

Oh wait, I can see it in my post -- star and crescent.

re: #2 loppyd,

Feeling a little vindictive today? Me, too. Anything that soils the Obamessiah's Halo is a good thing. I hope they keep the open and "unmoderated" format.

Maybe we can get the Ku Klux Klan to endorse Obama in a blog on his site :-)

re: #3 Ward Cleaver

John Kerry thought it was. Remember the fun people had with that?

He is being facing his first Dem primary challenge in 24 years.

LOWELL - A defiant Gloucester lawyer Ed O'Reilly garnered enough support yesterday from party officials to ensure that he will give US Senator John F. Kerry his first Democratic primary challenge in 24 years.

"Party officials said this campaign is a nuisance. And it is. It's a total nuisance," O'Reilly said at the convention, held at the Paul E. Tsongas Arena in downtown Lowell. "Democracy is a nuisance. People said the American Revolution was a nuisance - and it was."

Isn't that beautiful?

The problem is the nuts, not the mobys. It's the people who are legitimate obama supporters and the other supporters who are attracted to them. It's elementary- you don't let the lunatics run the asylum.

So we rate his web site 57/100?

John McCain is so old that when he heard the word blog he thought they were talking about his favorite monster movie from the 1950's.

Barack Obama can't be trusted with internet security.

but go ahead, put him in charge of Homeland Security

/

re: #17 Iron Fist

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Feeling a little vindictive today? Me, too. Anything that soils the Obamessiah's Halo is a good thing. I hope they keep the open and "unmoderated" format.

Maybe we can get the Ku Klux Klan to endorse Obama in a blog on his site :-)

It's time to go to the mattresses. LOL

"Is It Smart to Allow Unmoderated Blogs on a Presidential Candidate's Site?"

Smart? No. Amusing? Hell yes!

/...and after all, it's all about amusement- right?

Apparently the college students are running amok at the Obama '08 campaign. This whole situation just smells of a slavish attempt to curry favor with college students and other young adults who have so much invested in facebook, youtube, myspace and other forums, that they can't understand why every website wouldn't let them express themselves and communicate.

So if Senator Obama is elected, along with creeping Marxism and daily doses of the Shrew, a.k.a. Michelle, can we expect a government mandated "single-payer" [called "single-server"] online community where everyone must have a page and check it each day...twice?

Didn't check your page for instructions from the glorious leader? [CRACK of the whip] You vill obey!

re: #8 JammieWearingFool

They just can't admit Obama is so incompetent, it must be someone else's fault.

Let them keep behaving like this, it's so much fun to behold.

Isn't it?

Pass the popcorn. Extra buttah and salt, please.

And now it's time to get back to work.

BBL

re: #17 Iron Fist

Nah, they're all that's left of the RP campaign. For obvious reasons they didn't follow RP's Leftist fanbase over to Obama world, and never will.

FULL
LOAD,
R

re: #18 loppyd

That's fantastic. Does Mass. have open primaries?

re: #12 bianchi_roadie

Haven't modern campaigns figured out (after Clinton in 1992) that staying "on message" is critical...

...unless this is the message.

re: #14 zmdavid
I just checked instapundit, and the reader is Martin Shoemaker, not Dan Rather.

I believe the Left is be honest. I do not believe they understand what has become of their party.

Democrats: γνωθι σαυτόν ("Know Thyself")

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

Exhibit D

~Exhibits Courtesy of Zombietime.com

re: #17 Iron Fist

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Feeling a little vindictive today? Me, too. Anything that soils the Obamessiah's Halo is a good thing. I hope they keep the open and "unmoderated" format.

Maybe we can get the Ku Klux Klan to endorse Obama in a blog on his site :-)

There was something very much like the KKK on his site yesterday.

what he needs is an aural-oral based vwebsite.

Oh boy, here they go:

McCain's Web site talks about the anti-Christ being ‘a Jew,’ Hillary being a ‘bitch,’ Obama being a ‘Muslim fag,’ and America bringing 9/11 on itself — · Digg It! · — UPDATE: Jed finds more on other McCain sites, including a reference to Obama as a n*gger.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/mccains-web-sit e-talks-about-anti.html

SEETHING...

re: #19 Sharmuta

The problem is the nuts, not the mobys. It's the people who are legitimate obama supporters and the other supporters who are attracted to them. It's elementary- you don't let the lunatics run the asylum.

But that seems to be exactly what is happening. The site obviously is moderated to an extent; overwise, a diary for "Jews Against Obama" would have also been able to be posted to the site. It's not so much that the nuts have taken over the asylum as that they have been running that asylum from the get-go.

I'm still of the opinion that a lot of Ron Paul supporters switched to supporting Barack Hussein Obama. They switched due to the fact that Obama is the closest thing to what they thought Paul was, and Obama has a greater chance of winning than Paul. REVOLution, Hope, Change? They're all in the same vein.

re: #18 loppyd

Isn't that beautiful?

On the news last night they said O'Reilly's reasons for joining the race were to immediately end the war and because Kerry wasn't steadfast enough in his support of gay marriage. I was thinking, yeah, the economy, energy independence and terrorism are no way as important as homosexual marriage.

Allowing all kinds of hate speech and anti-semtic content on his site just proves how tolerant Barry is.

re: #33 MandyManners,

Yeah, it's not really a big stretch. After all, Kleagle Robert C. Byrd endorsed Obama. He must have been endorsing his white half.

So apparently, they are watching what gets posted.

The spin's not sticking- tey do moderate. So they either approve of these posts or are too stupid to know they're problematic. Maybe both.

re: #11 Fat Jolly Penguin

Crescent & Star?

How can the Great Obamessiah be expected to monitor a mere website? The Extraspecial Extraordinary Barry is too busy driving the new bus

re: #41 Cap'n DOC

Crescent & Star?

Pretty big symbol of Islam.

Everyone knows the only people who need moderation are conservatives!

sheesh!

re: #40 Sharmuta

The spin's not sticking- tey do moderate. So they either approve of these posts or are too stupid to know they're problematic. Maybe both.

I'd bet on the former long before I'd bet on the latter. Obama's track record this campaign speaks for itself. He makes Ron Paul look like a piker.

re: #36 Honorary Yooper

I'm still of the opinion that a lot of Ron Paul supporters switched to supporting Barack Hussein Obama. They switched due to the fact that Obama is the closest thing to what they thought Paul was, and Obama has a greater chance of winning than Paul. REVOLution, Hope, Change? They're all in the same vein.

I was watching RP on C-SPAN this morning. He was picking apart Obama's Hope and Change message and very much sounding as if he was still running. I'm just a little concerned that he's crazy enough to try a third party run.

I just found this gem, but haven't read it yet:

[Link: www.thenextright.com...]

re: #39 Iron Fist

,

Yeah, it's not really a big stretch. After all, Kleagle Robert C. Byrd endorsed Obama. He must have been endorsing his white half.

This claimed that all Jews are Khazars, that Teddy Roosevelt was Jewish and that Jews assasinated Pres. McKinnley...really out-there stuff.

re: #35 cajunbelle

Notice how weak that is. The Jew comment was actually used to refer to a person of the Jewish faith, not as a slur. There's nothing wrong with the word Jew. The Anti-Christ stuff is silly so they have a point there. The other stuff about AIPAC and calling Obama a "fag" were posted by people opposed to McCain, not McCain supporters. There's a big difference.

re: #35 cajunbelle

Oh boy, here they go:

re: #46 EC Marm

I was watching RP on C-SPAN this morning. He was picking apart Obama's Hope and Change message and very much sounding as if he was still running. I'm just a little concerned that he's crazy enough to try a third party run.

Clinton/ Paul indy ticket!

re: #12 bianchi_roadie

Yeah, its amazing. I wonder how long it would be before they were to take down a pro-McCain blog. I now have an account, so I may decide to find out as an experiment in blog management by our would-be pressident (sic since all he has going for him is a lot of msm happy horse hoo).

re: #47 Beobachter

...the people on MyBO are building the most fearsome volunteer organization in the history of Presidential politics.

Heh.

re: #49 Killgore Trout

Notice how weak that is. The Jew comment was actually used to refer to a person of the Jewish faith, not as a slur. There's nothing wrong with the word Jew. The Anti-Christ stuff is silly so they have a point there. The other stuff about AIPAC and calling Obama a "fag" were posted by people opposed to McCain, not McCain supporters. There's a big difference.

My thoughts too. Pee Wee Hermanish.

re: #50 Pawn of the Oppressor

Why the hell would any campaign allow people to even make comments on articles? How can that possibly help? What would McCain (or Obama '08) be thinking?

As with anything, allowing that kind of interconnectedness has its pluses and minuses. As a plus, it gives people a sense of belonging - a community of like minded folks who will share in the collective goal.

Still, allowing unmoderated blogs means anyone can post anything and the dregs of humanity can post without regard for whatever the candidate stands for. You wont only get spoofers, but those who truly mean what they write - and do so because that is their genuine position. Trying to separate the two is a time consuming and from an administrative standpoint worthless - you have to rid the site of both.

Trying to excuse the behavior as though it was done by those who infiltrate into the website to damn the site attempts to shift blame to the right wingers (as ABC's Jake Tapper has writte), even though we have only one instance of an individual taking credit for spoofing the site - and that was in response to seeing something else posted there, ignores the basic problem of enabling anyone to post.

From a professional standpoint, it makes little sense to expose one's political futures to the even remote possibility of being sabotaged because of craziness posted on the official campaign website.

I argued on a different forum last night about the "Official Obama site", as opposed to the "MyObama site" not being an official site. If it's not an "official site," why are the Osamessiah web desigers allowing them to mirror the Obama site? Wouldn't there be some sort of ownership of the design on the "official" site and the "MyObama" site? Wouldn't that be like me designing a "Little Blue Footballs" blog?

re: #50 Pawn of the Oppressor

Except comments on a website aren't the same thing as registered blogs. I could forgive a few nutballs at Obama's website making crazy comments, but not registered blogs.

Exactly. Plus I doubt they'll find any jihadist posts. Even if someone posted a spoof, who'd believe "jihadists for McCain"?

re: #22 Shug

I was wondering if Obama can't run a website than why should we trust him with running the government?

Look for Obama to come out say: "That's not the website I know".

Charles - just so you'll know (although I did post this on a thread or two ago) I posted a rebuttal to the "readers" comments on Instapundit on the ABC news blog, the effect of which was that Obama's site is supposed to be moederated and as soon as you (LGF) exposed all the truly vile and vicious blogs there, the "moderators" who had left some of them up for months and months, took them down.
Just FYI.

re: #57 sngnsgt

I argued on a different forum last night about the "Official Obama site", as opposed to the "MyObama site" not being an official site. If it's not an "official site," why are the Osamessiah web desigers allowing them to mirror the Obama site? Wouldn't there be some sort of ownership of the design on the "official" site and the "MyObama" site? Wouldn't that be like me designing a "Little Blue Footballs" blog?

The MyObama site is absolutely part of the official Barack Obama campaign site. It's not even debatable.

re: #57 sngnsgt

I argued on a different forum last night about the "Official Obama site", as opposed to the "MyObama site" not being an official site. If it's not an "official site," why are the Osamessiah web desigers allowing them to mirror the Obama site? Wouldn't there be some sort of ownership of the design on the "official" site and the "MyObama" site? Wouldn't that be like me designing a "Little Blue Footballs" blog?

nope. it's the same shit.

Charles, you are being mentioned on The Next Right web site.

FWIW:

The Obama campaign is right and Charles, Hot Air, Malkin, and the rest of the conservative blogosphere are wrong. Stories like this win tactical, one-day skirmishes but lose us the broader war. The damage to the Obama campaign will last 24-48 hours, and by then we'll have moved on to the next line of attack. But in the meantime, thousands more people will sign up to My.BarackObama.com. They'll form groups, RSVP to events, and yes, maybe write an off-color blogpost or two. They'll solidify their commitment to a community that's fanatically dedicated to electing Barack Obama president. And while the pundit-blogosphere may dismiss them, the people on MyBO are building the most fearsome volunteer organization in the history of Presidential politics.

[Link: www.thenextright.com...]

re: #63 Beobachter

This is what I get for hanging out here more frequently.

re: #61 Charles

The MyObama site is absolutely part of the official Barack Obama campaign site. It's not even debatable.

Thanks Charles, you just settled an argument for me, I didn't just fall off the same turnip truck yesterday.

Why do people find it so hard to believe that the same people that post the anti-Semitic or anti-American crap on Kos or DU would stop themselves from posting on their favorite candidate's blog? And couldn't it be that those that "moderate" Kos and DU just might be the same people that "moderate" Obama's blog?

re: #63 Beobachter

Charles, you are being mentioned on The Next Right web site.

FWIW:

[Link:

re: #63 Beobachter

And while the pundit-blogosphere rest of the political world may dismiss them, the people on MyBO the march are building the most fearsome volunteer organization in the history of Presidential German politics.

I bet that is what some people said about the SA in 1930s Germany.

"So apparently, they are watching what gets posted." - Give them a week, they will take their eyes off the ball. I will run my experiment then.

What got me about that obvious spoof blog was that it was so obvious even I knew it was fake, yet there were four or five welcome messages and a few that politely disagreed with Fatima. They all took it seriously. And the blog is still up.

It is not smart.....

To reiterate what was posted earlier, this shows an insight into the modern & future Democrat party and the mindset of its membership.

The fact is that this kind of anti-Israel, anti-military, etc...etc... is so prevalent on a majority of the left's websites should be a wakeup call to middle of the road dems. Its time for a review of what your party has become and encompasses...its become more mainstream that you think.

re: #63 Beobachter

Just my impression, but I don't think Charles is doing this for tactical reasons. I think he is offended by what is on that site and is exposing it because it is right to do so, regardless of how it impacts the election. Charles can correct me if I'm wrong about his views.

Interesting article, with ironies abounding considering the klutziness of the Obama website situation: [Link: www.theatlantic.com...]
Quote from same: “But more than any policy, the idea of Obama and the world he speaks for seemed to excite something deep within the limbic system of the Valley brain that manifested itself through the early and continuing financial support that was crucial to launching Obama’s campaign. Getting behind Obama, especially for those who did so early, appealed to their self-image as discerning seers. Though she ultimately went with John Edwards, Nadine North captured this better than anyone: ‘Obama was the new, new thing, and that’s what we’re all about here.’”

re: #73 wannabuyaduck

My link didn't work, but it is easy to find on the Atlantic Monthly website -- [Link: www.theatlantic.com...]
The Marc Ambinder article in the right-hand column links to it, the article is "The Amazing Money Machine" by Joshua Green.

The very fact that anyone can post whatever they want is a gigantic problem, and extremely unwise for a presidential candidate’s web site. All you have to do is look at the insane garbage posted every day in Daily Kos “diaries” to see what will happen if you don’t moderate these blogs.

Well, like many others have already pointed out, BHO, lacks wisdom, shows an incredible lack of discretion when selecting both friends and associates, all the while seeking an office that requires both wisdom and discretion.

Empty suit, thy name is Obama.

[Link: www.americanthinker.com...]
According to this Obama said he will try the Bush administration for War Crimes if he is elected.
I think sometimes all he is aiming for is the BDS vote.

re: #76 mean Gene

[Link: www.americanthinker.com...]
According to this Obama said he will try the Bush administration for War Crimes if he is elected.
I think sometimes all he is aiming for is the BDS vote.

If we elect a president based on the BDS vote, we're in deep shit.

re: #76 mean Gene

[Link:

re: #63 Beobachter

Charles, you are being mentioned on The Next Right web site.

FWIW:

[Link: www.thenextright.com...]

I know and I emailed Patrick to tell him that I think he's completely wrong.

It's a bit ironic that he's lecturing me on what "works." I go down the front page of his site and see "1 comment," "3 comments," "6 comments," etc.

Seems to me that LGF is working quite well, thanks, Patrick.

Is It Smart to Allow Unmoderated Blogs on a Presidential Candidate's Site?

No. But, who will moderate the moderators?

The heateful blogs on the site are just the tip of the iceberg. Obama's 'friends' are quite another. Imagine what would happen to Angela Merkel if it were revealed that her close friends were ex Baader-Meinhof murderers. Yet Obama gets a pass on his Ayers and other similar if not quite murderous connections albeit criminal and hate spewing- Rezko, Farrakhan, Wright et al and one must not forget his dear wife.
The Ayers got away with plotting murder of innocents. They have adopted and brought up the son of a murderous couple who actually were successful in slaughtering innocent individuals going about their work. And this son hilariously named Cheka - another reference to murder for political philosophy - is now in Venezuela helping Hugo reduce prosperous Venezuela to a basket case a la Robert Mugabe's Zimbawe. Can you imagine what would happen to Republicans who ranked amongst their nearest and dearest neo nazis and genocide enthusiasts?

Chesa Boudin – [Link: www.slate.com...]
not named after the cheka, although he may as well have been. Some of the articles say that the name "chesa" comes from Swahili for "dancing feet."

Sure is odd how these people who consider American so eeeviiilll somehow end up continuing to reap the rewards -- Rhodes Scholar, in this case.

re: #25 brainwizard73

It is really true. To function in college you have to have Facebook (and maybe Myspace). No college student emails between each other, they'll Facebook or IM (though now that there is a application that lets you do that now on Facebook), so if you wan to know what is going on you better use it. Plus most girls and some guys are completely hooked. They cannot get on the internet without Checking their facebook. And the sad thing is most of them don't even have a chance, because they have no real concepts of politics (or if they do it's right leaning). (though at my school we have a little more sense, Thank God, mostly due to home schoolers and rednecks) I can't stand Facebook though... I spend my time surfing political blogs :)