http://bush2004.com/buybush Bids start a half mil.

Press Release Bush2004.com bidding to start at half a million dollars Austin, Texas March 5, 2004 - "The Republicans have manipulated the consolidation of the ownership of our media. We are consolidating the satire of this political process", said a Bush 2004.com spokesman at a press conference in reaction to the news that bush2004.com has been put up for auction on Ebay. The Bush2004.com spokesperson stated, "For any Democracy to function effectively the electorate must be well informed on the issues. The news reaching Americans is no longer objective. What we are providing at bush2004.com is an alternative source of information on the issues concerning the 2004 Presidential Election. And we're doing it with a sense of humor." Bush2004.com, a leading satire and news web site that has been visited by over a million people since its launch in February, 2004, announces the availability of its domain name for sale on Ebay. The founder originally created the site to be a place for objective discussion on the Presidential Election. The Internet's world wide web has transformed the political fund-raising process with web sites like moveon.org and deanforamerica.com raising millions of dollars for political campaigns. During the 2000 Presidential election, the owners of bush2004.com ran georgebush2000.com which had over 80 million visitors. Currently, the site is a satirical look at American Presidential politics with irreverent articles by Michael Smith, famed author of "The Madness of King George" but it also carries news from other sources such as the leading political weblogs or "blogs", MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.. The owners request that any persons seeking to start a "porn" site avoid the bidding, as they do not support these types of activities. Current bidding on a similar domain name, http://whitehouse.com is currently at 2 million dollars according to it's owner, Daniel Parisi of New York City, NY. The domain name auction ends March 12 at 5:32:17 PST or 8:32:17 am EST and 7:32:17 am CST The site has a lively "blog" or weblog of it's own which is usually on the cutting edge of the news of the presidential race. The site has a large and growing user community, made up of Republicans, Independents and Democrats. Statistics are available upon request. But the owners say "the numbers are significant". The Owners can be contacted at 512-699-4000. Serious inquiries only, please. The Bush2004.com website went on sale today for $500,000. The Austin, Texas based owner is advertising the site at http://bush2004.com/press and on Ebay at this link: Ebay Listing of Bush2004.com Item number: 3082825893 Main category: Computers:Other Hardware & Services:Domain Names:.com Start price: $499,000.00 End date: March12, 2004 at 5:32 PST Contact Bush2004.com Headquarters 100 Congress 21st Floor Austin, Texas 78701 512-699-4000 press@bush2004.com

Hmmm, no bidders yet. If no one bids, I wonder if the site will be put up for auction again at a lower price, or for a longer bidding time?

Lower, longer. Suggestions?

could you just blow it up; just a symbolic act... nothing too "John Woo".

Plamegate: The civil war Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson are considering a civil suit against administration officials. If they do, they'd better be ready for a vicious attack by White House proxies. By Michael Scherer Oct. 18, 2005 | Within days, if not hours, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case will announce the outcome of his two-year investigation. But Patrick Fitzgerald probably won't have the last word. For months now, ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, the covert CIA agent unmasked by the White House, have been preparing to file a civil lawsuit against the Bush administration officials who disclosed her identity and scuttled her career. ... If they do sue, Wilson and Plame could be the first litigants to depose senior White House officials since Paula Jones, an employee of the state of Arkansas, opened a can of worms by suing President Bill Clinton for allegedly exposing himself in a Little Rock hotel room. In a deposition for the Jones lawsuit, Clinton lied under oath about his relationship with another woman, Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, triggering his impeachment by the House of Representatives and the disclosure of oral sex in the Oval Office. "The questions can range far afield. You can ask all kinds of stuff," said Gilbert Davis, an attorney who represented Jones in her sexual harassment lawsuit. "You can start free-wheeling with all kinds of discovery methods." http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/10/18/plame_probe/index.html