Obama has polticized past President biographies

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

You are incorrect - I pulled info off of whitehouse.gov regarding president bio's in 2007 - prior to Obama being elected.

Could you post a link to that?

[August]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Could you post a link to that?

A link to 2007? Sign me up!

[CaptainHaplo]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Could you post a link to that?

How is this...

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=1&...w=1920&bih=985

That is a google search for pages ONLY up to Sept 30, 2007. The first link shown is this:

http://www.nisd.net/galm/internetles...presidents.htm

That happens to be the link my son and I first found that linked to whitehouse.gov - so as of Sept 30, 2007 - whitehouse.gov did in fact have presidential bio's.

You cannot get the old 2007 versions of the whitehouse.gov pages themselves any longer - but this at least demonstrates that the pages existed prior to Obama.

You can replicate this by doing a google search, selecting advances options and putting in the start and end date of your search for pages.

[mookiemookie]

Here's Hoover's page, as an example, as it was back on January 30, 2009:

http://web.archive.org/web/200911271.../herberthoover

No mention of any "Did you know"'s that featured Obama.

I still think this is a poorly thought out idea on the part of the Obama campaign team.

[Platapus]

Good catch, previous Whitehouse.gov versions did have their particular version of presidential bios.