Obama Networks on BlackPlanet.com

I feel bad doing another Obama post, back-to-back, but there's so much bullshit following the front runners! This one is about Obama getting on a social networking site. Here are some of the highlights:

On Oct. 5 Obama was the first-- and so far only candidate -- to create a profile on BlackPlanet...

Three days later, he had 60,000 friends on the site. By Oct. 10, it doubled to 121,000. And as of Oct. 16, he's up to 192,000, surpassing his number of supporters on Facebook (154,000) and MySpace (182,000). There's overlap here. Some BlackPlanet members are either on Facebook or MySpace or both.

"It's really very smart of him to be on the site. He's killing two birds with one stone -- reaching out not just to the black community but also to a diverse age groups of black people who are BlackPlanet," 34-year-old Wanda Parham Payne, one of Obama's friends on BlackPlanet, told The Trail. The public health analyst from Upper Marlboro, Md. is supporting on Obama and plans to donate money to his campaign. "Usually, presidential candidates go to the same black churches, march with Al Sharpton and say they're reaching out to the black community. With this site, he can reach many more people simultaneously."

With Obama and Clinton fighting over the black vote -- especially the black female vote in the early voting state of South Carolina -- don't be surprised if Clinton, whose husband was dubbed the "first black president" by author Toni Morrison, joins BlackPlanet soon.

I wonder why Obama was the first, and only candidate, to have a BlackPlanet profile. Is Hillary even allowed to join BlackPlanet.com?

Again, from The Washington Post.