There are quite a few aspects of Nick Clegg’s website which are very alike to Barack Obama’s.
Similar sign up facility, very similar menu bar, and Clegg keeps the “3 thing you can do” on every page as Obama keeps picture links to state volunteer centres on each page.
The biography pages are uncanny. Comapare this and this Pictures and text set out in exactly the same way and both texts have identical structure: background – education – work before being elected – work since being elected – wife and children.
Shame that you cannot buy a Nick Clegg Headband – exactly what you need in the cold weather. If someone calls my bluff and produces a Clegg or Huhne one (especially if they knit it!) then I promise to wear it skiing.
In any worthwhile undertaking it is often helpful to borrow ideas from others. If that is what the Clegg web team of done, then I entirely approve of it.
Obama is not a bad model for Nick or Chris. I recommend Obama’s recent book , the title of which comes from the now infamous phrase he used at the 2004 Democratic National Convention-
“In the end — In the end — In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or do we participate in a politics of hope? Hope — Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!”
