Does anyone know the story behind Obamas myspace..

[Bloody Holly]

success?

If so discuss, if not you can always make up a story.

[mdh]

Did someone deface it or something? What happened to it that it's being brought up? Does it cede victory to Dr. Paul or something? :)

[ChooseLiberty]

There was a big controversy about Barack O's myspace site. Some guy had set it up independently and devoted months to maintaining it then Obama came in and convinced myspace to take it away from the guy with no compensation. Something like that. It was a big tech news item a few months ago.

[angelatc]

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=159248288&blogID=259712152&Mytoken=8738375F-A57E-4AB4-900496ABAA3F3FF11236719

[hells_unicorn]

Spread this story around, this may be what is needed to sway some Obama supporters to our side. I'm going to post a link to it on my own bulletin and I suggest every Paul supporter do the same. Obama hired his own staff, this is his responsibility.

[LibertyEagle]

WOW. I hadn't heard anything about this. I can't believe Obama's campaign just stole this guy's Myspace profile.

There's a guy who has done a very good job putting out information about Ron Paul on his own Myspace page, long before there was an official Ron Paul Myspace profile, and Ron Paul sure didn't try to shut him down.

I hope these former Obama people take a look at Dr. Paul.

[Bloody Holly]

ChooseLiberty, that is correct :)

When I heard that I thought, wow what a jerk. So this guy who was spreading awareness of Obama single handedly and got sooo many supporters did not get anything in return?

Well actually the guy who made the myspace page did ask Osama for 50,000 dollars but Osama was like hell no. So myspace tried to make it fair by getting rid of all the friends but they were made back very fast. This is not how you should treat those who believe in you.

I was actually thinking about Obama before I learned of Ron Paul but then the more I researched Obama the more I knew he just wasn't what I was looking for. So I dropped that zero and got myself a hero!

[angrydragon]

Funny, Obama and crew spent over 600k in mailing lists and grassroots organizing, but can't spend 50k to a guy maintaining and creating Obama's myspace.


They asked Anthony to suggest a one-time consulting fee in exchange for turning the profile over to the Obama camp. After calculating the time he put into the profile, Anthony requested $39,000 plus the sharing of any fees the campaign paid to MySpace up to $10,000.

The campaign told Anthony that they did not have the money. They went on to accuse Anthony of being a “squatter” and attempting to gauge them. Ultimately, the campaign circumvented Anthony by having MySpace seize the profile, lock out Anthony and turn the profile over them. The 160,000 friends associated with Anthony’s original profile will be transferred over to a replacement profile (once Anthony determines what that will be); today, Anthony’s former profile now in control of the Obama campaign, has 18,000 friends.

The campaign shelled out nearly $500,000 to A.B. Data for marketing services (mailings, lists, etc..) and $127,000 to LSG Strategies for grassroots organizing. I wonder how much A.B. Data or LSG Strategies would have charged for a project as large as Anthony’s profile had gotten (and the years of maintaining it).

http://2008central.net/?p=632

[mdh]

OK... if it costs $127,000, it's not grass-roots!
Yeesh.

[Bloody Holly]

wouldn't self promotion be the right term??

[CurtisLow]

I added in comments. "Obama lost my vote! Hello Ron Paul"

[Bloody Holly]

I would expect someone who supports eminent domain to treat a supporter like this.