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Title: Hacked: Obama's campaign website~invited supporters to 2 fake anti-gov't events hosted by "Commy Obama"
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Washington Examiner
URL Source: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs ... hacked-obamas-campaign-website
Published: Jul 5, 2011
Author: Hayley Peterson
Post Date: 2011-07-05 17:31:05 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Obama-doma-ding-dong
Views: 386
The Obama campaign website was hacked on Tuesday and invited supporters to two fake anti-government events hosted by an unnamed "Commy Obama." The campaign's application for mobile devices, such as iPhones and iPads, directed users to two events titled "Rules of Politics" scheduled for noon on Tuesday in Washington. "1. Politicians and other public servants lie," read the event description provided on the Obama campaign website. (Full screenshot here.) "2. Politicians tell you what you want to hear and offer to provide things for 'free' to get votes. 3. When government buys, the people pay." The 430-word message lists 21 total anti-government criticisms, none of which target Obama, another politician or a particular political party by name. The twenty-first note quotes the late Adrian Pierce Rogers, a Southern Baptist preacher who served two terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1979 to 1988. "'You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom,'" the author writes, quoting one of Rogers' more famous sermons. "'When half of the people get an idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.'” The Obama website was hacked one day after Fox News' Twitter account was hijacked and spread false information saying Obama had been assassinated. Update: Obama campaign adviser Ben LaBolt sent an e-mail to The Washington Examiner Tuesday afternoon saying the events calendar is user-generated, so the security of the website has not been compromised. The campaign removed the event from its calendar following the Examiner's report.
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