Go get 'em! Obama launches a "Low Road Express site

By GottaLaff

The pitiful McDesperate campaign is accusing Obama of putting out the first negative ad, despite Andrea Mitchell swatting that lie down earlier today. Obama's got them on the defensive now. Way to GObama:

A day after the Obama campaign released an advertisement entitled “Low Road,” the presumptive Democratic nominee’s camp is following up with the Web site “Low Road Express.”

The new site collects media coverage – editorials, fact check articles, and video clips — about the strategies and tactics of Sen. John McCain’s campaign in recent weeks.

The RNC has a couple of sites of their own:

The Republican National Committee recently launched two Web sites focused on Obama. On Wednesday, the RNC rolled out “Audacity Watch,” a Web site that collects together video clips of media coverage about Obama and an RSS feed of information from GOP.com. Earlier this week, the RNC also launched “BarackBook,” a site that parodies Facebook, a popular social networking Web site where Obama has amassed more than a million supporters.

That BarackBook went well, didn't it?

UPDATE: McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds issued the following statement about the Obama campaign's "Low Road Express" Web site: “Barack Obama’s campaign created his global celebrity status — we are celebrating it and informing voters of his inexperience. If there’s a low road in this campaign, Obama’s campaign paved it when they launched the first negative attack ad in this election.”

Do they have any idea how infantile they sound? Maybe if they'd stop whining and crying about how popular Obama is, they could address the issues.

Never mind. They have nothing else. What was I thinking?

RNC forced to delete racist comments on Obama parody site

By GottaLaff

(I took this screen shot of the home page)

A Republican website that mocks Barack Obama ... got out of hand? Really? How unexpected:

Republicans were forced to strip the comment wall and discussion board from the page attached to its new Facebook parody, BarackBook.com, which just went online early this morning, because of comment posts that were racist and anti-Muslim … and some that were anti-Republican too.

The site had been designed by the Republican National Committee as an imitation of the popular social networking site, Facebook, and the comment wall appeared on the application page that allows users to link BarackBook to their personal Facebook profiles.

In addition to some vulgarities, the site also became the target of liberal bloggers at DailyKos.com, who urged their readers to “befriend barackbook and add the application and basically turn it into a pro-Obama site.” [...]

Before the comment wall and discussion board were taken offline, more than a few users appeared to take up that call. And the backlash also caught the attention of the Obama campaign. As Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for Mr. Obama, put it: “I agree with the first comment thread on their discussion board: ‘The site is lame.’”

Alex Conant, a spokesman for the R.N.C., said the ultimate goal of scrubbing the Facebook application page was to make sure the content was “consistent with a respectful campaign.”

Someone might want to tell J Sid about that last part.