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	<title>Comments on: Barack&#8217;s Boring Website</title>
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		<title>By: notswift</title>
		<link>http://www.engagedc.com/2008/07/28/baracks-boring-website/comment-page-1/#comment-166</link>
		<dc:creator>notswift</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Besides the complexity of your observations, isn&#039;t it also true that Obama has not revealed the gazillion small amount anonymous donations from who knows where in the world? Wouldn&#039;t it be possible for a few very wealthy people to devise a way to purchase anonymous visa/mastercard gift cards and funnel these into the campaign warchest of Obama? Does this have anything to do with the effectiveness of Obama&#039;s website? Probably, not. But it does get to a point I have been honing - the presidency was purchased by those who control the media. In that premise, the effectiveness of McCain&#039;s campaign was a moot point. The fix was in. Even more believable with the current political climate in Illinois and positions being bought by big buck bidders.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Besides the complexity of your observations, isn&#8217;t it also true that Obama has not revealed the gazillion small amount anonymous donations from who knows where in the world? Wouldn&#8217;t it be possible for a few very wealthy people to devise a way to purchase anonymous visa/mastercard gift cards and funnel these into the campaign warchest of Obama? Does this have anything to do with the effectiveness of Obama&#8217;s website? Probably, not. But it does get to a point I have been honing &#8211; the presidency was purchased by those who control the media. In that premise, the effectiveness of McCain&#8217;s campaign was a moot point. The fix was in. Even more believable with the current political climate in Illinois and positions being bought by big buck bidders.</p>
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		<title>By: Colin</title>
		<link>http://www.engagedc.com/2008/07/28/baracks-boring-website/comment-page-1/#comment-39</link>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow. 

Everyone is saying it is a great web site. You try so hard to find something wrong with it. 

Obama did this well. You are petty and you look small when you attack it. Especially with such thin and pathetic arguments. 

Give him his due because otherwise you look like a weasel. You aren&#039;t are you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow. </p>
<p>Everyone is saying it is a great web site. You try so hard to find something wrong with it. </p>
<p>Obama did this well. You are petty and you look small when you attack it. Especially with such thin and pathetic arguments. </p>
<p>Give him his due because otherwise you look like a weasel. You aren&#8217;t are you?</p>
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		<title>By: jnail</title>
		<link>http://www.engagedc.com/2008/07/28/baracks-boring-website/comment-page-1/#comment-32</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Patrick, your post makes no sense to me. Its a geeky critique of a tool that is for the mainstream web user.

Elections are all about &quot;transactions&quot;. Not just money but volunteering, engaging and doing things like getting out the vote, voter registration, getting folks together like House parties etc.

Your reference to the lame McCain Nation is even less sensible. Obama had over 4000 house parties on June 28th and has thousands pf volunteers out actually working on voter reg while McCain is just now putting out a site.

The &quot;GOP toolbar&quot; - that is a joke right? 

Your reference to &quot;a well-honed machine run like IBM at its peak, not a hungry, innovative startup&quot; is a bad thing? Elections are won with discipline and focus not some naive startup mentality.

The typical voter has no idea what Twitter is and does not care. They are day to day web users who need basic, simple, easy access and sites need to work for them.

The campaign could clearly update pages more frequently and all sorts of things but most of us use our MY BO page and by now know where to click to get the info we need. My neighbor to neighbor link is right there in front of me as were the phone call links during the primaries.

If anything the shortcomings you reference are a sign of success. No one wants people hanging out on the website when they could be registering voters etc..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patrick, your post makes no sense to me. Its a geeky critique of a tool that is for the mainstream web user.</p>
<p>Elections are all about &#8220;transactions&#8221;. Not just money but volunteering, engaging and doing things like getting out the vote, voter registration, getting folks together like House parties etc.</p>
<p>Your reference to the lame McCain Nation is even less sensible. Obama had over 4000 house parties on June 28th and has thousands pf volunteers out actually working on voter reg while McCain is just now putting out a site.</p>
<p>The &#8220;GOP toolbar&#8221; &#8211; that is a joke right? </p>
<p>Your reference to &#8220;a well-honed machine run like IBM at its peak, not a hungry, innovative startup&#8221; is a bad thing? Elections are won with discipline and focus not some naive startup mentality.</p>
<p>The typical voter has no idea what Twitter is and does not care. They are day to day web users who need basic, simple, easy access and sites need to work for them.</p>
<p>The campaign could clearly update pages more frequently and all sorts of things but most of us use our MY BO page and by now know where to click to get the info we need. My neighbor to neighbor link is right there in front of me as were the phone call links during the primaries.</p>
<p>If anything the shortcomings you reference are a sign of success. No one wants people hanging out on the website when they could be registering voters etc..</p>
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