I really enjoy reading MeAndMyDrum and I invited to Mark Sierra over to my blog so that he could twist things up a bit with his very unique, creative and entertaining writing style. Be sure to check out his blog if you get a chance, he’s got some really great articles on it.

Now to be honest, I am not really all that much into politics. Reason being is because I think pretty much all politicians are stupid, crooked and corrupt. With that being said however, I enjoy talking to Mark about it because he always has an opinion about politics or the events taking place.

So last night I was talking to Mark and I had asked him, “Hey Mark, what do you think it would be like if Obama was a make money online blogger?” Immediately he started to spit out all kinds of stuff typing at 90MPH and filling up my GTalk instant messenger. Finally I said, man… save this material for the blog. And so I present to you, Mark Sierra’s take on if Obama was a MMO blogger.

What If Obama Was A MMO Blogger?

Written by Mark Sierra

So now that we’ve finally narrowed it down to two candidates for the presidential race, let’s have a little fun with the topic.

What if Barrack Obama were a make money online blogger like us? Do you think he’d be successful at it? And I’m not talking about his donation requests that he currently has on his blog. Let’s take that out of the equation for now. In fact, let’s do this: let’s say he’d still use his blog for financing his presidential campaign, but he’d make a few design changes.

Instead of asking for donations directly, he would rely on the money he’d make from promoting affiliate networks like pepperjamNETWORK and their merchants, placing Google AdSense ads, maybe even selling advertising to promote other blogs and services.

What would his blog look like then? Would you expect to find certain types of products he’d be promoting? Would they be culturally based, perhaps leaning more toward the black community? Or would they represent all communities equally?

There’s no denying that there’s a large number of people holding their breath hoping to see the first black president in the Oval Office. I don’t think the color of one’s skin should, by any means, be a factor when considering the qualifications of someone in any position, especially the presidency. But I do see why people would let that cloud their judgment without realizing it.

And how would his supporters respond to this imaginary change in his blogging strategy? Knowing that Obama’s relying on the income he’d be making on commissions, would they buy things just because it helps him even though they’d hate the products they would buy?

There’s no doubt in my mind that Obama would be successful at making money online, but only for a short period of time, and not for the reasons you might think. I propose that his supporters would see it as a means to an end — just get him elected and the blog would die a fast death shortly after the election. Right up to election day, they’d encourage everyone they could to visit his blog, drive traffic, promote the heck out of it and get people clicking on the ads and buy products.

Whether or not you support Barrack Obama, there’s no arguing that he’s an eloquent and influential speaker. In fact, I’m sure he could sell ice to Eskimos. So there’s no question he’d be very good at identifying keywords to weave into his content to get high search engine rankings. Hehe…I can see it now, “I’m asking you to believe in changing the blogosphere! Operators are standing by.”

So what do you think? What would the Obama’s MMO blog look like and would it be better than John McCain’s?