BNP copies Obama Web design

Posted By Joshua Keating Monday, November 9, 2009 - 10:49 AM Share


This could very well be the most ironic act of hopejacking yet. Some British bloggers have noticed a striking similarity between the Websites of the xenophobic British National Party, which banned nonwhites from joining until a court order this year, and BarackObama.com.

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GRANT

11:07 AM ET

November 9, 2009

Maybe the BNP should take a

Maybe the BNP should take a close look at their website and decide what shouldn't be there.
Is it...
A. The largely blue and white color scheme that affects people positively?
B. The gentleman* in the his mid-forties or early fifties?
Or...
C. The gentleman** in at least his early sixties with all the suggestion of change of Taro Aso?

A large number of people are trying to use Democratic techniques without any understanding of why those techniques worked.

 

CRAIG_DEEDMATCH

8:02 PM ET

November 9, 2009

Great stuff!

Great stuff!

 

GALLAHAD

9:47 AM ET

November 10, 2009

Meh

I think said British bloggers are overstating it. Really, the only similarity is the color scheme; and red, white and blue happen to be the national colors for both the US and the UK, so it's not crazy for politicos of either country to use it.

Now that I'm looking over it again, maybe something else similar is the use of glowing stuff. That's a little better than the color scheme, but still a pretty small thing.

 

JOSHUA KEATING

12:24 PM ET

November 12, 2009

open the two sites and look

open the two sites and look at them side by side.

 

SUBMIT SOLUTION

2:33 PM ET

November 11, 2009

Funny

I love how you called it "hopejacking".

 

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