breitbart.com — At the cost of losing 160,000 friends, Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign has taken over control of the MySpace page listed under his name on the popular social networking site. For the past two and a half years, the page has been run by an Obama supporter from Los Angeles named Joe Anthony.
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scottcMay 3, 2007
If they are his friends there is no need to pay anything for them, they will just re-friend him. I don't think 160,000 people were friending Joe. It would have been a nice gesture to pay Joe something for his work, though.
crimsonblurMay 3, 2007
Yeah, he now has control of the original profile with all of the same friends, everything he claims to have worked so hard for, but it's a blank profile, and he no longer has the barackobama URL. So, everything is as it should be. I'm curious to see what he does with this profile that he claimed was worth $50,000 and put so much hard work into. He's talking about just deleting it, now that would be funny, considering he would be throwing away $50,000, right? I'm also interested in seeing how many of those "friends" drop out after finding out it wasn't an official site and migrate to the official one, there is already one comment on the blog post you link to saying they will do exactly that. We'll see...
heyitsgarrettMay 3, 2007
The day MySpace drama starts seriously affecting a political campaign is the day I finally give up on America.How many of those 160,000 group members were of voting age?
cosmicbrattMay 3, 2007
Obama called him to discuss the situation..here's Joe's blog about it:TC from Barack Obama (!!!)I just received a phone call from Barack Obama himself.He expressed his appreciation and we agreed that there is something to be learned by everyone involved at this point. (Frankly, I was a little surprised by the call, and was too nervous to remember any exact quotes)I assured him that this is just a horrible thing that happened and obviously he wasn't responsible and shouldn't be held responsible. It's his campaign that perhaps mismanaged this whole thing. He of course stands by his campaign, but again. . . much to be learned by all.I'm sure he has mixed feelings in speaking with me about this, but it was nice of him to call, and quite an honor to finally speak to him!I guess I have mixed feelings as well, but it was still a great honor.I urge you all to consider this situation carefully. It'll take time for me to work this out and decide if I will personally continue to support Obama, regardless of how I feel about his campaign's handling of this situation.It's not right what they did to me and this profile, but it's also wrong to let this change your views of Barack Obama as a candidate.After all it was Obama that inspired me to do all this.What a day. I'll keep you posted. . . .link: <a class="user" href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=159248288&blogID=260260883&MyToken=40f977c1-7570-4a3b-9502-e3db12401b6c">http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=159248288&blogID=260260883&MyToken=40f977c1-7570-4a3b-9502-e3db12401b6c</a>
modelcadetMay 3, 2007
I'm sure the way the Obama campaign sees it, it's not his money. When thousands of people are donating $5 and $10 to your campaign, I'd be a little frugal in how I spend my money... being especially conscious to avoid extortionists.
heartbreakboyMay 3, 2007
@catsmackingSo, the argument is going from "He was a loyal volunteer to the Obama camp, how dare he ask for compensation for his time" to "they were worried he could have influence over these 160,000 people, and he wouldn't give them the password!". Doesn't hold water.
deathfiredMay 4, 2007
@RaggTopp - ya I'm pretty sure your post didn't contribute anything either buddy.
nadinerocMay 5, 2007
Exactly, they expect people to sacrifice their life, efforts and money to make them look good.He is demonstrating once again, that American leaders have no respect for anyone nor for themselves. The real question here is: if they wanted that site so bad, why did they not build one on My Space themselves??? They figured some sucker would do it and then they would just bully him out when they wanted.Obama is not any better than any one in the race right now: they're all of the same corrupted fabric and nowadays, it is not a matter of skin colour nor one of religion. It is a matter of how many you are willing to kill to get to the top.What a bloody mess, but Obama should win now that the US has become a banana republic. Figgers...
nadinerocMay 5, 2007
I see the guy is being conned in once again by Obama! Bend over, sucker! Haha! Geez, Americans have no backbone, no wonder the chaos! Plus he will give him his vote? What a wimp!