Hillary is 44 - Anti-Barack Obama Blog Is Down - May Have Come From Clinton's Staff

Hillary is 44 - Anti-Barack Obama Blog Is Down - May Have Come From Clinton's Staff

UPDATE - Hillary is 44 Must Shut Down

An anti-Barack Obama blog called "Hillary is 44" and specifically designed to float negative information about Senator Barack Obama is down.

I learned about the blog from this post over at the Beltway Blogroll:

...an anonymous supporter of Clinton getting some attention for a blog that is unfriendly toward Obama. The site, dubbed Hillary Is 44 because of its goal of seeing her elected as the 44th president, has been online since mid-April but is getting noticed now because it merited a critical mention in an OpinionJournal column about Clinton by Peggy Noonan. ...Noonan provided no evidence to support her suggestion that Hillary Is 44 is somehow part of the Clinton campaign, and the site includes a statement that it is not affiliated with Clinton's presidential team. But the Obama incident earlier this year shows that some connection, however remote and perhaps unknown to the campaign, is plausible.

It also wouldn't be the first time that purportedly independent blogs have caused problems for their preferred candidates. Such blog scandals surfaced last year in Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota, Texas and Virginia.

Stephen Bainbridge, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, noted of Hillary Is 44, "The anonymity of the site raises a legitimate inference that there is some connection to the campaign."

Well I went to the site Hillary is 44.org , and it's down. What this means is anyone's guess. My read is that someone from the Clinton campaign feared being outed and took it down.