Romney Campaign Plagiarized Obama’s Donation Website

[trailmonkee]

Source: New York Magazine

The Mitt Romney campaign has had chronic problems with spelling this year, but its latest workaround isn't much better: Buzzfeed reports that Romney's Victory Wallet donation website just copied and pasted the text from Barack Obama's Quick Donate, changing only the identifying details. "When you're logged in to your BarackObama.com account with a saved credit card, just click the Quick Donate button. We'll charge your saved credit card and you're done in seconds," said one. "When you're logged in to your MyMitt account with a saved credit card, just click the Contribute button. We'll charge your saved credit card and you're done in seconds," said the other. It's since been corrected and blamed on some poor kid.

The Romney campaign confirmed to Buzzfeed that this wasn't just some dummy text inserted by whatever company built the websites. "This was a junior staff confusion that has been updated and resolved," said digital direct Zac Moffat.

Now the Romney site says, for instance, "Just text the amount you want to donate — i.e., "10"or $10 — and in seconds, you're done." The Obama one, on the other hand, says, "If you text us '10', we'll charge your saved credit card $10. It's never been easier to donate." But look, no typos! Just good old-fashioned Amercian ingenuity.


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[Firebrand Gary]

1. Wall St steals from Main St, Romney steals from Obama, sounds about right.

"People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here's the painful part — they're right. The system is rigged. Look around. Oil companies guzzle down billions in subsidies. Billionaires pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. Wall Street CEOs — the same ones who wrecked our economy and destroyed millions of jobs — still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them."

~ Elizabeth Warren

Any questions?

[berni_mccoy]

2. Day after day, Romney's campaign is more pathetic than I could have imagined possible the day before

[trailmonkee]

3. Rmoney HQ pic:

[DreamGypsy]

6. Please don't insult baboons...

Seriously, baboons are social, intelligent, adaptable creatures.

Those involved in the Romney campaign are probably flatworms (Platyhelminthes)

Over half of all known flatworm species are parasitic, and some do enormous harm to humans and their livestock.

[trailmonkee]

10. I know, that's really fucked up that I did that... sorry baboons...

[Mz Pip]

4. They are phoning it in.

It's like they aren't even trying anymore.

When Romney appeared with Pat Robertson and implied that Obama wanted to remove God from our currency I knew they'd lost it. They are appealing to the lowest of the low. That's all they've got and it won't be enough.

[lolly]

7. Yes, that pushed Birthirism down to second on the crazy scale

Which is no mean feat.

Has anyone asked, by the way, what the man who chased the moneylenders out of the temple would think about his Father's name engraved on all our money in the first place?

[progressivebydesign]

5. I still say that they're outsourcing the stuff to India. n/t

[TalkingDog]

8. How do you spell Pathetic?

[Sophiegirl]

9. Any good idea...

...is an idea worth stealing, eh?

But Mittens would probably sue for copyright infringement had the shoe been on the other foot. That's how the free, corporate market, corporations are people, works, right?

[Cha]

11. Some lazy ass unoriginal junior staffer sounds a lot

like romney himself.

[Coyotl]

12. So, after "fixing" the problem, Mitt's English is

seven grade levels below Obama's