This does more to hurt Obama than it does Hillary.

[mia]

A hateful website is opening to swiftboat Hillary.

I was just looking at the jobs listed on Miami's Craigslist and came across this job offer to blog against Hillary. On the website, they're posting positive things about Obama as a draw. I wish I could have saved a screenshot of the website.

Is this sort of thing common practice in politics?




http://miami.craigslist.org/wrg/357564431.html

Political Writers Wanted

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Reply to: [e-mail]
Date: 2007-06-22, 12:39AM EDT


I-Hate-Hillary.com is launching soon, and we need creative, talented and passionate writers to submit editorials on Hillary Clinton, her views, the race in general, and her opponents.

We will pay you $10 per submission used, plus you will get credit on the site and a link to your personal blog or Web site.

Editorials should be submitted with your name as you would like it to appear, and the site to which you would like it to link. If you have an idea for an editorial and would like to submit the idea before writing, that's fine as well.

Writers will retain copyright ownership over their work, and have the right to reprint it. However, submission to I-Hate-Hillary.com will constitute as permission for us to use it as we see fit in conjunction with the Web site or the general marketing of the site.

[aquart]

1. Not necessarily an Obama initiative.

Dirty tricks can be much dirtier than you imagine.

[MADem]

3. It could be RUDY!!!! Who knows? It's stupid, no matter who is behind it. NT

[mia]

8. Yes, probably a freeper owned website. NT

[MADem]

2. Love the way they throw ten bucks at people, but then say it's a NO PAY job

Location: Anywhere
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
Compensation: no pay

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How idiotic. Only a craven asshole would want to do this sort of work.

[durrrty libby]

6. "Only a craven asshole would want to do this sort of work."

I imagine there are a dozen people from here, signing up right now!

They write hate Hillary crap here for free, might as well get a few bucks

You know it's true.

[MADem]

10. Well, my comment still stands, then! nt

[durrrty libby]

11. Indeed it does

[NYCGirl]

4. On what website are they "posting positive things about Obama as a draw"?

[mia]

5. this one

I-Hate-Hillary.com

[NYCGirl]

7. There is no such website. NT

[mia]

9. website

http://www.i-hate-hillary.com/news/news.php

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. Looks like Latin.

Which is Greek to me. WTF?

[JTFrog]

14. It's a template.

Website templates frequently use Latin text just to demonstrate what the site would look like functionally.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

19. Oh. I thought Cicero was doing a hit site on Hillary.

Whew!

[NYCGirl]

16. It's called "greeking" text — it's used as a placeholder. NT

[LSK]

13. the site was registered long before Obama got in the race

Did Obama know he was running against Hillary on 1/14/2006?

(hint: look up the domain here: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp)

[mia]

17. Thanks for looking this up.

I don't think the Obama campaign has anything to do with this.

[NYCGirl]

18. The text on the link you provided is hardly pro-Obama — it's just a headline

with greeked placeholding text on it.

[LWolf]

15. Despicable.

I am not, on my best or worst day, a fan of HRC. I won't vote for her. I don't hate her, either.

I don't condone hate-propaganda. My decisions are based on her record and her platform, not on hate.

I don't see anything there linking that ad to Obama. It's more likely to be funded by republicans, imo.

I wonder how many $10 bills they can distribute before they run out of cash?

Hate tends to spur the devolution of any conversation. The more submissions, the more devolution, until there's no distinguishing the slimers from the slime. :shrug: