A weird story ultimately depicting what a bunch of crap weasels the folks at the Obama campaign are.

WASHINGTON (AP)—Is MySpace always mine or can it belong to someone else?

At the cost of losing 160,000 friends, Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has taken over control of the MySpace page listed under his name on the popular social networking site.

For the past two and a half years, the page has been run by an Obama supporter from Los Angeles named Joe Anthony. At first, that arrangement was fine with the Obama team, which worked with Anthony on the content and even had the password to make changes themselves.

But as the site exploded in popularity in recent months, the campaign became concerned about an outsider having control of the content and responses going out under Obama’s name and told Anthony they wanted him to turn it over.

In this new frontier of online campaigning, it’s hard to determine the value of 160,000 MySpace friends—about four times what any other official campaign MySpace page has amassed. But the Obama campaign decided they wouldn’t pay $39,000, which is what Anthony said he proposed for his extensive work on the site, plus some additional fees up to $10,000.

MySpace reluctantly stepped in to settle the dispute and decided that Obama should have the rights to control his page as of Monday night, while Anthony had the right to take the contact information for all the friends who signed up while he was in control. That includes the right to tell them exactly how he feels about the Obama campaign.

This is liberalism hard at work.

This kid, Joe Anthony, put in a ton of work to create a well-managed, well-trafficked bit of internet real estate.  The Obama campaign benefited from this guy’s hard work, but when they decided he couldn’t be trusted running his own creation any more they took it from him.  Sort of like how Democrats are fine with us managing our own wealth...until we’re “rich.” Then they decide to take it away from us and use it for their own things.

It’s almost like these liberals can’t grasp the idea of “private property.” They wouldn’t even pay the poor kid for his work.  Granted, maybe his asking price was too high (it doesn’t seem too bad to me for exposure to at least160,000 online MySpace “friends” and undoubtedly millions more who will browse by between now and the elections).  At the very least it would have been worth the $49,000 or so to avoid this bad media publicity.  But instead the Obama campaign had to stick it to this poor kid after he went out of his way to help them.