George
W. Bush
Welcome
to georgewbush.com
"Because
a dangerous world still requires a sharpened sword"
Content
Check:
This
is a self-assured, essentially inoffensive site, brimming over with
confident images of peace and prosperity traipsing hand-in-hand through
Internetland. It hardly matches the ugly rumors we've heard of George
W. and his bone-picking lawyers prowling the Net like a pack of hyenas
and descending, teeth bared, on any site that dares to use their freedom
of speech to criticize him. Shucks, good thing the Internet has nothing
to do with the Real World, 'cause that kind of stuff out there might
make a candidate look bad.
Hey,
a Republican with pages translated into Spanish. Apparently the others
have already given up on Texas.
Navigation
Nags:
Bushsucks.com.
The Bush camp has created a navigation error worse than any buggy Back
button or failure to provide text links. Type bushsucks.com into your
browser and it will take you straight to Bush's official home page.
Y'see, someone on Bush's staff was savvy enough to have registered all
the nasty names people like to use for dissing political sites. Problem
is, some bonehead though it would be cool to have all those insulting
domain names refer back to Bush's official site. Not a bad idea, but
one they've executed poorly. A person who believes Bush sucks is not
going to think differently just because they have been exposed to the
shining brilliance of the official page. They're just going to think
the gimmick proves that Bush really does suck.
Now,
if we were Bush's flunkies, we would have set up all of those nasty
addresses to lead to a page listing all the candidates and the reasons
why every one of them suck. Every one of them, that is, except for sweet
G.W. And with a list of 10 to 15 politicians and a passel of cleverly
phrased sucking points for each, the viewer might not have even noticed
that Bush's name was left off the list. Could be smart and funny and
make Little George look like he's almost hip.
Particularly if his organization disavowed any knowledge of the site.
Don't
Miss:
Typing
in Bushsucks.com. Make a game of it - try to find out how many vulgar
and offensive phrases will get you to his home page.
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