Israeli PM Candidate's Website Looks A Lot Like Obama's... (PHOTO)

JERUSALEM -- Click on the Russian-language version of the campaign Web site of Benjamin Netanyahu, the conservative Likud leader running for prime minister of Israel, and up pops a picture of the candidate with Barack Obama. On the Hebrew version, Mr. Obama is not pictured. But he is, in fact, everywhere.

The colors, the fonts, the icons for donating and volunteering, the use of embedded video, and the social networking Facebook-type options -- including Twitter, which hardly exists in Israel -- all reflect a conscious effort by the Netanyahu campaign to learn from the Obama success.

"Imitation is the greatest form of flattery," noted Ron Dermer, one of Mr. Netanyahu's top campaign advisers. "We're all in the same business, so we took a close look at a guy who has been the most successful and tried to learn from him. And while we will not use the word 'change' in the same way in our campaign, we believe Netanyahu is the real candidate of change for Israel."

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[Oilygarch]

Hmmmm.... Who used this successful template and when did they know about it? ;-)

[SUNRAI]

"Obama the Trendsetter"

[walktothelight]

Are you serious? It's a freakin Template..­.it was probably created in India or china. Wow, paranoia will destroya!

[rupert12]

In the article, a guy from the campaign admits to copying from Obama.

It's called reading for comprehension. You might want to try it sometime.

[MagisterLudi]

He didn't "copy from Obama." He just lifted the HTML code from the source page. As any respectable web designer ( or lawyer) he charged the full price, as if he did the work himself.

[walktothelight]

Like I said, Paranoia will destroya! marked

[kelzk]

Oh dude, can we at least keep typos out of the headlines?? Come on.

[GayGrandpa]

DITTO! THANK YOU!

[MariaHopeful]

Right?!

[irisda]

Good learning is inspiring yourself and adapting sound choices that fit with what you do. certainly not copying. He's gone lose this one.

[whyanything]

Netanyahu? WHY is he back?

[Oilygarch]

-even though he says he's not an yahoo...

-its because yahoos have a way of trying to come back and back and back...

;-)

[piul05]

Probably because he thinks this administration is going to be very friendly towards hardliners such as himself.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7729046.stm

[GoVeg]

Even Obama's website inspired other nations.ha­ha

[walktothelight]

hahahahaha­...right!

[doshomik]

Ummm what's Iraeli btw ? :S

[liberalrebuttal]

That's cute that he would copy cat us like that .

[xxnounxx]

i saw him last year having dinner in cipriani resturant in london,i cant reveal what i felt like doing to his arrogant face

[Oilygarch]

Was he keeping kosher, or was he eating a Saltinbocca?

He was staying at a hotel above the London bombings and was escorted out 30 minutes before the bombings happened. I guess the Mossad had better Intel than Scotland Yard?

[xxnounxx]

i seriously want this terrorist net-en-yahu to win..just so i can see what president obama's stand will be with him..that will prove the slogan change,lets see the change that will happen.

[larazon]

It's a tra-vesty that it's being used to promote that radical, Neta-nyahu!

[pokemon]

Not flattery, simply a designer with no sense of design, and a limited budget with no concerns of copy-right laws:)

[Igglesbee]

Copyright laws? Seriously, POKEMON? Do you have the vaguest clue what copyright laws actually cover?

[PDXTransplant]

Immitation is the best form of flattery..­.

[Oilygarch]

flattery is the best form of irrigation

[whit4brains]

Everyone is going to be copying and learning from the excellent well ran campaign of Obama!

[Oilygarch]

that only means they'll be one step behind