The Obama campaign website was hacked on Tuesday and invited
supporters to two fake anti-government events hosted by an unnamed
"Commy Obama."
The campaign's application for mobile devices, such as iPhones
and iPads, directed users to two events titled "Rules of Politics"
scheduled for noon on Tuesday in Washington.
"1. Politicians and other public servants lie," read the event
description provided on the Obama campaign website. (Full
screenshot here.)
"2. Politicians tell you what you want to hear and offer to
provide things for 'free' to get votes. 3. When government buys,
the people pay."
The 430-word message lists 21 total anti-government criticisms,
none of which target Obama, another politician or a particular
political party by name.
The twenty-first note quotes the late Adrian Pierce Rogers, a
Southern Baptist preacher who served two terms as president of the
Southern Baptist Convention from 1979 to 1988.
"'You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the
wealthy out of freedom,'" the author writes, quoting one of
Rogers' more famous sermons. "'When half of the people get an idea
that they do not have to work because the other half is going to
take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it
does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what
they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any
nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.'”
The Obama website was hacked one day after Fox News' Twitter
account was hijacked and spread false information saying Obama had
been assassinated.
Update: Obama campaign adviser Ben LaBolt sent an e-mail to The Washington Examiner Tuesday afternoon saying the events calendar is user-generated, so the security of the website has not been compromised. The campaign removed the event from its calendar following the Examiner's report.
