Myspace, politics, and the American Video blogger

MySpace launches politics channel

(Reuters)

Chris DeWolfe, MySpace Chief Executive, said in a statement.The Impact Channel will feature videos from the candidates, voter registration tools and job-listings. It will feature fund-raising tools in the coming weeks.At launch, Clinton's profile page claimed about 359 friends. Obama's page listed 66,080 friends.

Myspace, Politics and Video Blogging

Presidential Hopefuls Make Myspace Pages

(AP Online)

Mostly young users can link to the personal pages or "profiles" of 10 presidential hopefuls.Democrats Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden, and Dennis Kucinich have set up MySpace profiles. Republicans McCain, Rudolph Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul also have pages.MySpace users will be able to read the candidates' blogs, see photos and video and, if they choose, link their favorite candidate to their friends list or put a candidate's ad onto their own pages.

Prospective voters eager to learn more about John McCain or to become an Internet "friend" of Barack Obama now have a new online opportunity. MySpace.com, the popular social networking site, on Sunday launched a section dedicated to the 2008 presidential election.

Called the Impact Channel, it's the latest attempt by an Internet company to educate voters by serving as an information hub for political candidates and the public.

Hillary Clinton Political ads and bloggers

Reports indicate an online political video has sparked controversy from the Internet to the print media. The ad, a riff on Apple’s “1984″ advertisement directed by Ridley Scott to promote the first Macintosh computers, has been altered by an anonymous editor as a campaign ad for Barack Obama.

In the altered version, the “overlord” on the video screen, who is brainwashing the masses (a jab at IBM when the commercial first aired), has been replaced by video clips of Hillary Clinton. In the clips, she soothingly reassures the masses that she wants to have a discussion with them, that she doesn’t want to tell them what to do, that discussion is good. More>

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Barack 1984

African American Political Pundit and Blogger, AAPPundit says: The mud-Slinging has begun as the 2008 Campaign goes negative on YouTube. But hey, creativity trumps money in open source politics Look out Obama, Clinton and Edwards the Republican will be coming after you full throttle.

Is this a case of Republican negative campaigning? Is this a setup by Hillary operatives? Is this a setup by Obama operatives? Who do you think created these ad? Is it kids in a basement or Republican operatives?