The 21st Century President
dan tynan on Nov 06 2008 at 6:26 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Barack Obama’s national campaign used technology better than any in history. Can they drag the rest of Washington, DC — and the nation — kicking and screaming into the Web 2.0 century? Culture Crash blogger Dan Tynan has some thoughts…
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I am certainly excited about what an Obama presidency will bring to our beleaguered nation. He is very articulate to be sure, and seemingly has the intellect and composure to be successful in the highest office of the most powerful nation on earth. However, I am a little skeptical about his level of experience, alleged ties to unsavory organizations and religious affiliations. I voted for him, primarily because of bitterness at the incompetence of the Bush administration. I remain disenfranchised with America so far in the 21st Century, and came across a political graphic that does a fairly good job in capturing this sentiment.
http://www.cafepress.com/usa21stcentury
lack of experience? yeah, I’d agree with that. unsavory ties? you’ve been watching too much cable news. that’s just more of the BS churned out by the GOP.
I can’t quite see the graphic on that T shirt. is that Clinton (sex), Bush (drugs) and Obama (rock and roll)? the middle one is indistinct.
and do you make $$ off these things? just curious.
dt
“Unsavory” is probably something we can agree on applies to Ayers and Co. even if you think he is a reformed terrorist. “Ties” is where the argument comes. Where on that continuum was the Obama/Ayers relationship and where is it close enough to be concerning? (and that answer may be different for different people). At least O is on notice not to name him as Sec. of Education now.
As far as the tech goes, I’m surprised the locals down here didn’t have more of a tech effort. Of course, when is the last time that anybody worried about North Carolina in a presidental election.
If you want to get real radical on the tech, lets have an open source, Wiki house of the state legislature. Anybody can draft a law, submit it online, allow comments and and option to allow edits, get a majority of citizens to vote for it and then pass it over to the representative houses and force them to address it. Somehow I don’t think Madison and Jefferson would ignore the Internet if they were putting a Constitution together today
hey brad:
great article/interview with william ayers in the NYer — http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2008/11/mr-ayerss-neighborhood.html
to wit:
He said that he laughed, too, when he listened to Sarah Palin’s descriptions of Obama “palling around with terrorists.” In fact, Ayers said that he knew Obama only slightly: “I think my relationship with Obama was probably like that of thousands of others in Chicago and, like millions and millions of others, I wished I knew him better.”
but… great idea about the legislative wiki. only problem I see is people would keep rewriting the law every time they got caught breaking it. that could prove a bit of a hitch…
dt