Obama takes control of MySpace page

[oberliner]

WASHINGTON - Is MySpace always mine or can it belong to someone else? At the cost of losing 160,000 friends, Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign has taken over control of the MySpace page listed under his name on the popular social networking site.

For the past two and a half years, the page has been run by an Obama supporter from Los Angeles named Joe Anthony. At first, that arrangement was fine with the Obama team, which worked with Anthony on the content and even had the password to make changes themselves.

But as the site exploded in popularity in recent months, the campaign became concerned about an outsider having control of the content and responses going out under Obama's name and told Anthony they wanted him to turn it over.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_on_el_pr/on_the2008_trail;_ylt=Ail8DgR1t5...wskDs8e.2HMWM0F

[Horse with no Name]

1. I hope that Mr. Anthony was compensated fairly for his work

And I agree 100% with Obama running the site himself. Nobody should ever be used as a scapegoat for any campaign by allowing them to say..."Oh the webmaster did that, I had nothing to do with it".
If the candidates run their own websites, then what we read is their words and nobody else's.