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Obama Camp Takes Control of MySpace Page  
 
May 2 03:01 PM US/Eastern
By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer 

WASHINGTON (AP) - Is MySpace always mine or can it belong to someone 
else? At the cost of losing 160,000 friends, Democrat Barack Obama's 
presidential campaign has taken over control of the MySpace page listed 
under his name on the popular social networking site. 
For the past two and a half years, the page has been run by an Obama 
supporter from Los Angeles named Joe Anthony. At first, that arrangement 
was fine with the Obama team, which worked with Anthony on the content 
and even had the password to make changes themselves. 

But as the site exploded in popularity in recent months, the campaign 
became concerned about an outsider having control of the content and 
responses going out under Obama's name and told Anthony they wanted him 
to turn it over. 

In this new frontier of online campaigning, it's hard to determine the 
value of 160,000 MySpace friends—about four times what any other 
official campaign MySpace page has amassed. But the Obama campaign 
decided they wouldn't pay $39,000, which is what Anthony said he 
proposed for his extensive work on the site, plus some additional fees 
up to $10,000. 

MySpace reluctantly stepped in to settle the dispute and decided that 
Obama should have the rights to control 
http://www.myspace.com/barackobama as of Monday night, while Anthony had 
the right to take the contact information for all the friends who signed 
up while he was in control. That includes the right to tell them exactly 
how he feels about the Obama campaign. 

Anthony referred The Associated Press to his MySpace blog, where he has 
written that he is heartbroken that the Obama campaign was "bullying" 
him out of the page he built. He said the candidate has lost his vote. 

Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is trying to rebuild his friends network 
from scratch and was up to more than 17,000 by midday Wednesday. "We 
support the MySpace community, and look forward to building our 
relationship," said campaign spokesman Bill Burton. 

___ 

WASHINGTON (AP)—John Edwards is blending a new television commercial 
with his online Web message, giving his activist supporters a voice in 
demanding that Congress stand up to President Bush's veto of a 
withdrawal timetable for Iraq. 

The ad, which will air in Washington on broadcast and cable programs, 
calls on Congress to ignore the veto and to send Bush the "same bill 
again and again." 

Edwards, who is lagging behind Democratic presidential candidates 
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama in the polls and in fundraising, 
is seeking to distinguish himself as an anti-war voice. 

The timetable for pulling out of Iraq is contained in a bill that 
provides money to troops in Iraq. Unwilling to risk delays in money for 
the troops, congressional Democratic leaders are now struggling to 
adjust the bill to avoid a veto without angering the party's most 
liberal anti-war members. 

It is that tension that Edwards is seeking to exploit with his new 
commercial. 

The ad will also run on the Edwards' Web site as well as on YouTube, the 
popular online video site. Edwards wants viewers to post their own 
personal messages to Congress about Iraq. The campaign will then 
incorporate those messages into future Web ads. 

The new ad depicts nine people criticizing the Bush administration. 

"President Bush isn't listening to us," one person says. 

"It's time to end the war," another person says. 

"Don't back down to President Bush," adds another. 

"Send him the same bill again and again." 

___ 

Associated Press Writer Jim Kuhnhenn in Washington contributed to this 
report. 

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