In a recent column about the upcoming election that appeared in the Greeley Tribune, the author refers to SAFER's "Cindy McCain: Drug Dealer" campaign and, in particular, its URL -- www.DrugDealerCindy.com -- as an example of a Web site name that sticks.

There are plenty lame-sounding Web sites devoted to campaigns or issues, many of them seemingly because Web designers either weren't creative, or the Internet is simply running out of names.

Other sites probably could have gone with other names, but chose ones that would stick in voter's minds, like DrugDealerCindy.com. The site is a project of the group Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation, which lobbies for the legalization of marijuana. The group calls Cindy McCain a drug dealer because her family owns a beer distributorship -- "As the head of (Hensley & Co.), Cindy makes millions of dollars dealing a drug far more harmful than marijuana: Alcohol."

 

There are those who would argue alcohol is not a narcotic in the traditional sense, but the Web site name is hard to forget.

As for that last statement, perhaps the author should check a dictionary for the definition of "narcotic" (note alcohol is mentioned and marijuana is not):

1. any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.