Well it appears that Kos has jumped onto this latest bandwagon that unfairly gives people unnecessary ammo against Obama.
You can read the main diary here
Please allow me to respond.
First of all, don't get Obama and his campaign mixed up. I know a lot of people believe that a person who chooses a team to represent them should articulate their views and mentality, but did all of you agree with the bloggers from the Edwards campaign a month or two ago, or how about the other thousands of decisions made by Democrat presidential candidates' campaigns that go completely unnoticed?
Which brings me to my main point: In a presidential campaign, image is everything, and you have to be assertive. But here's my question- If you were running a Presidential campaign, would you let someone outside of your campaign have control or access to a utility that hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people will read about you at? I don't care if this guy is the nicest dude in the world, you can't let someone else have this kind of campaign power any more than you can let Dubai control our ports or let Rudy Giuliani control barackobama.com!
Personally, I'm surprised the campaign didn't ask for complete control a long time ago. A lot of people jumping all over the campaign are forgetting that this guy has a thing called free will. HE chose to spend his time on the site. HE decided to take time off from work. HE chose to let it control his life, not the Obama campaign. If he realized early on that he didn't have the sort of time he needed, than he should have passed it on a long time before.
In fact, I think a much more likely scenario is that he is trying to basically extort 39,000$ from the Obama campaign. Stick with me on this one! Remember how 50 Cent or lottery winners have all kinds of friends and family members that never seemed to care about him before, but are now asking for money all of a sudden? Wow, this Obama guy is starting to be a pretty good fundraiser!
This is a hissy fit. This is freaking out on something irrelevant. This is a hedge fund or a haircut. If this changes the way you think about Obama, than I guess you're easily persuadable. I shouldn't even be writing this diary to begin with.
$39,000 is an awful lot of money. I bet I could have gotten another 700 voters in Florida to the polls in 2000 with canvassing and phone calls with that kind of money (Not that we didn't win that stupid state to begin with). Obama might not raise money as quickly as he has already, so there's no reason to throw out this kind of money if he can't just have his current staff do it. If you owned a small business, and an outsider tried to sell you a service for $39,000, and you could just delegate the same work to your 5 employees for much less, what would you do!?
I'm sorry if I come off has a bit angry over this, but I just wish we could push these small stories to the side and let the campaigns do their job. Listen to both sides before you make assumptions.
But most of all, support our Democratic candidates, don't pick them out over the smallest things like the Republicans want us to do! I feel we have the strongest set of candidates in recent memory, and I'm going to work my butt of for whomever is the nominee. Let's stop this nonsense do what we're good at: electing democrats, ending the Iraq war, holding the President accountable.