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Barack's Boring Website
Barack's Boring Website
The common wisdom is that BarackObama.com is not only better at wrangling donations from the faithful, but is categorically better than JohnMcCain.com because it embraces an interactive as opposed to a broadcast model. Time 's Michael Scherer put it this way last April: Even today, if you go to McCain's website, you are more likely than not to find a page that just asks for money and ...
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Obama's Job Chapter 38 Problem
RedState: Conservative News and Community — A George Washington Campaign With A John Edwards Resume Jay Cost notices that a candidate who casts himself as the Lord who speaketh out of the whirlwind has a hard time running as a 'regular guy.' (As I have mentioned before, while Obama speaks the language of Christianity, unlike most religious politicians, he always seems to use language that places himself in the role of the Lord.). Here is Cost on Obama's website (which Patrick Ruffini also knocks for its single-minded devotion to hitting up the rubes for cash): If Democrats are wondering why Republicans have taken to ...

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