Repub­li­can site Barack­book mocks Obama’s Face­book support.

With ‘his’ sta­tus set as “Barack is hop­ing to set­tle on an Iraq pol­icy before Novem­ber”, Barack­book attempts to high­light some of Obama’s “more con­tro­ver­sial real life ‘friends,’ while cheer­fully mock­ing his much-hailed online sheen”.

In all, the site is a shock­ingly clever 21st cen­tury twist on the age-old polit­i­cal tac­tic of guilt-by-association. It cap­i­tal­izes on some of the key attrib­utes of suc­cess­ful com­mu­ni­ca­tion on the web: Brevity, graph­ics, and a sub­tle sense of humor. A related Face­book appli­ca­tion even lets peo­ple become “fans” of Barack­book, and post comments.

Most of the com­ments on Tues­day were in sup­port of Obama.

I’m always amazed at how ‘dirty’ Amer­i­can elec­tions are. Amazed. If sim­i­lar smear cam­paigns and per­sonal attacks hap­pened in the UK there would be uproar. Barack­book is still a bit much for me, but it’s a step in the right direction.

via Threat Level