Obama Launches Social Networking Site

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It’s not the first time a political candidate will have used social networking as part of a campaign strategy, but it’s probably the first time a political candidate has ever created his or her own social networking site.

Enter My Barack Obama, a social networking space dedicated to users who’d like to help Obama get into the White House in ’08. He also has a MySpace that’s of course not made or endorsed by him but by some very serious fan out there who happens to have little to do but make thousands of friends on his behalf.

There’s not too much you can say to trash a guy who acknowledges his own lack of qualifications and admits to doing drugs in college. But we’ve all seen how internet influence can make or break you. A word of warning, Obama: remember Howard Dean.

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