Not important, just odd: Bush-Cheney website is down

[Bossy Monkey]

I tried to go there 'cause an AP story said they have a new ad coming out and I wanted to link to it for those who might want to see it for opposition research purposes, but I haven't been able to get on there at all. I get a Service Unavailable - Fail to Connect message (which sums up Bush-Cheney pretty accurately, come to think of it). I did look at a cached page to verify that it was really the B-C website (it is) but even that was molasses slow. Anyway, if you see this before it falls off the front page, please hit the link and see if they're up. I'm sure it's nothing important; just morbid curiosity on my part.
http://www.georgewbush.com/

[tcfrogs]

1. Worked fine for me

May have just been temporary.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. Works for me too

Maybe a router failed between you and the web site.

[VaYallaDawg]

9. Cronus your photoshop ROCKS!! LOL. n/t

[DELUSIONAL]

3. Works for me

I checked out their "faith based" recommend reading -- a link on the right side of the page.

Also -- that photo of *bush leaning on the pulpit/podium. Gee I guess they couldn't get a photo of the dumb ass STANDING UP??????? (written with a Mike Malloy emphasis on words)

Now I need a shower.

p.s. seems like Malloy should be in the spell check!!!!

[MichaelHarris]

4. they must have forgotten

to pay one of their internets bill

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Thanks all; maybe some kind of dialup hiccup

or maybe they just don't like me. (The latter possibility makes me smile endlessly.)

I was trying for an hour or so intermittently, though.

Edit: Still not working for me. I think my computer just can't handle that much evil.

[phylny]

6. I just clicked it and got this error message:

"Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later" using Mozilla and IE.

Is is possible that I'm having problems because I don't have the site cached? I've never gone there before.

[Bossy Monkey]

7. I hadn't either. I went to the page Google had cached;

sorry not to have made that clearer.

I'm on Win98 2d Edition; I wonder if the site doesn't work with older operating systems. (Don't know any reason why it wouldn't; just can't think of any other factor. I'm up-to-date on IE.)

[phylny]

8. Dunno, because I'm up-to-date on Mozilla

and Windows XP.

Oh, well. Another of life's mysteries.

[Generator]

10. Did you sign your loyalty oath?

[dirtyduck]

11. Just saw this on WP White House Briefing

A connection?? Probably doing the same thing on the GWB site.
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Is the White House scrubbing its Web site?


Helen Dewar and Brian Faler write in The Washington Post about the mystery of the disappearing Coalition of the Willing -- and more.


"Blogger Brad Friedman, who noticed the disappearance, believes this is part of a widespread 'scrubbing' of documents on the government site. Gone are links to the audio and video of President Bush's statement that 'I'm not that concerned' about Osama bin Laden, a Q&A when Bush said 'misunderestimate' and Bush's acknowledgment that his decision making on stem cell policy was 'unusually deliberative for my administration.'


"Jimmy Orr, who handles the content for the White House site, said nothing nefarious was intended. 'We have some 80,000 pages and 3,000 video and audio links,' he said. 'When we republish pages and move files, some links are bound to go down, and there are bound to be dead pages.' "


For the record, the March 2001 press conference where Bush first said "misunderestimate" is in fact on the site; the transcript just says "mis-understimate" instead. Using Google, I found another version of the coalition list on the Web servers, for those of you who are curious. And the July 2001 press conference where Bush spoke about his unusual deliberation is in fact also on line. But the other stuff is indeed missing.