Whatâs Wrong Today:
From Techpresident.com:
have developed a reputation for being tech savvy, but they may have dropped the
ball on this one. Organizing For Action, the advocacy group founded to enable Obama 2012 campaign supporters to lobby
lawmakers and the public on issues of importance to them, has failed to
register its own domain name.
The result
is that organizingforaction.net,
organizingforaction.com and organizingforaction.org have all been
registered to enterprising individuals who snapped up the domains on January
18, the
day the news broke about the new Obama group.
What
happened? The group plans to utilize the power and sophistication of the
Obama For America (OFA) data warehouses to build support for a variety of issues,
including gun control and immigration. They
liked calling the new effort Organizing for Action because it kept a linkage to
the old OFA.
But they
hadnât purchased the domains prior to their launch.
And it
gets better: Clicking on organizingforaction.net
takes you to: The National Rifle
Association homepage!
The LA
Times identified Derek Bovard, a 40-year-old in Castle Rock, Colo. as the
registrant for Organizingforaction.net.
The Times reports that Bovard was watching
Fox News on the
morning of Jan. 18 when he saw the news that President Obamaâs advisors were launching a new advocacy group called Organizing for Action.
Bovard snapped up the domain name. He then proceeded to configure the site so
all hits are directed to the website for the National Rifle
Assn.
The Times
quoted Bovard:
AmendmentâŚIâm not in agreement with a lot of things that are going on right
now. If they donât like it, they can buy it from me.
Other
websites with the OFA domain are already taken. OFA.org belongs to the Assn. of Horticulture Professionals,
âthe leading horticulture educational association in the United States.â OFA.net is the home of the
Orthopedic Foundation for Animals. And OFA.com belongs to a Dutch electronics company.
Organizingforaction.com
and Organizingforaction.org
were acquired on Jan. 18 by Michael Deutsch, a registered Republican who lives
in Wellington, Fla. Both currently direct to a blank page with an email
contact.
Bovard
said he was surprised that OFA had not secured its domain name ahead of time: âOrganizing
for Action is not that organized, I guessâ.
Hilarious.
One of the smartest teams on the planet didn’t even get its new domain
registered.
Rookie
fail by the Obamanauts.
