Not Your Sweetie

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by Clearsky on 03/04/2004 11:11:27 AM EST

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re#140 by Robbedvoter
Seeing Karen Hughes back in view on tv this morning, I was reminded of --- we have to admit --- how sharp she is as a Campaign leader.
Sadly, it also reminded me of our dismay, then horror, that for a good little while after our dear General announced that he was a Candidate, the front page of this, his then-new official Website, continued to have reports from the field by his Campaign leaders TELLING US WHAT THEY, THE CAMPAIGN FIELD STAFF, HAD TO EAT THAT DAY!!
Not only, mind you, no real news of what The General had said, was getting along, AND, not even what HE had to eat that day.
As time went on, it came to light in another context, that "The General gives such good attention to his staff that he asks us, almost every day, did we eat, and what we had to eat."
  Putting 2 and 2 together, it then became apparant --- though they never acutually related the 2 ---that since The General asked them, almost every day,  if they ate and what they had to eat, they took that to mean that if they ate, and what they had to eat was the most important thing they were supposed to report. In the LEAD article on his Website, for God's sake.
  I'm not making this up. If anyone kept those early-Campaign lead clark04.com sit articles, you'll see it.
  At first, I thought, oh, The General is so tight for funds and organization that he's having to use 15-18 year old boys to do his front page news on his Website. (We all know the enormous amount of calories needed, as well as the lack of connectedness to others' needs that the  narcissism that many (certainly not all) immediately post-pubertal boys are notorious for.)
Then, when it went on and on, I found out that John Hlinko and his top website staff were certainly NOT 15-18 years old. It was just the mindset and poor level and quality of the standards and knowlege of living that they had. (I pointedly used the word "living" instead of the words "political experience" in the last sentence here, because it certainly didn't take andy political experience to know that the personal care and feeding of the staff employees was not what people came to a Candidate's website for. I know quite a few  9 and 10 year-olds who know that.)
  We must never forget that. We, along with the General and his family learned that technical experience about computers and websites is NOT the most important thing about a website. There are many people qualified to do the technical work who have good qualifications and experience.
  This may be one of those things that some reading here would have on their "I didn't need to know that and wish I didn't now know it" List.  
But, it seemed to me it now is timely to have it recorded for those who were not reading the Website then. And, I hope, responsibly recorded. It had terrible effects on the many, many  visitors who visited the Website then and had a lot of influence on those who looked to them for good opinion and guidance on candidates.
Clearsky