Bush Administration's Latest Internets Problem

A plaintive Loop reminder: Whenever you've got a nifty campaign on an issue, and you've picked the appropriately catchy theme, please, please remember to snatch up all related Internet domain names.
The Bush administration has a fine slogan -- "Strengthening Social Security" -- and a Web site, www.strengtheningsocialsecurity.gov, that links to the Treasury Department and lauds the administration's arguments in favor of changes. The site hails the "60 Stops in 60 Days" tour supporting the administration and lists all of the top officials flying around the country to build support for this. (Only 40 days left.)
And sure enough, as night follows day, up pops www.strengtheningsocialsecurity.com, a parody site put up by "New Yorkers United to Protect Social Security." It looks much like the real one, but it attacks President Bush's "vision to dismantle and destroy Social Security" and accuses him of "fear-mongering."
If you want updates from the famed 60-60 tour and click on that link, you get a sign-up form to fight the tour group and then a picture of people opposing Bush's changes, including a beefy-looking guy named " Charles, 52, Staten Island," who says: "If my Representative votes to privatize Social Security, fuhgeddaboutit."

[for more information, see whitehouse.org]