President 2.0: Obama To Post Weekly Radio Address On YouTube
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Good Decisions, Media, Technology, Video
You know, it’s a small thing, but it’s just another reason why I think Obama “gets it.” Maybe that will be proven wrong in the years to come, but for right now my hope is definitely being sustained.
For the first time ever, the president’s weekly address to the nation will be delivered via video as well as radio.President-elect Barack Obama, the Washington Post reported, will begin by taping this week’s Democratic address at his transition office in Chicago on Friday, and the video will be posted on Saturday to Obama’s transition site, Change.gov, via YouTube. Other members of the Obama administration will post online videos as well.
On Thursday evening, Obama’s transition team co-chair Valerie Jarrett posted a YouTube video, shown below, to the site explaining the lobbying restrictions for Obama’s transition team.
Here’s Jarrett’s announcement…
I’ll be posting those videos every week as they become available.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
This is superficial, small-scale, cosmetic change that really doesn’t mean much. Obama is copying FDR’s “Fireside Chat” strategy; only difference is that Roosevelt’s cutting-edge media in 1933 was radio.
Let’s see some bipartisan cabinet appointments… that will convince me that I’m getting real change for my vote, rather than empty speech rhetoric.
The fact that he’s even considering a Clinton for his administration is disheartening.
Agnostick
agnostick@excite.com
November 14th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Actually you’re wrong Agnostick, doing this over Youtube means more people will be “plugged in” to the process, especially younger voters, this means more activism in the government.
As for Picking Clinton, very smart move by Obama, it brings his rivals and enemies into his administration, weakiening them, while strengthening him, as he no longer risks having an insular campaign, instead he will be bombarded by opposing views and opinions, allowing him to make the smart decisions with regards to governing.
It shows that he’ll be a smart President and likely will be able to fulfill his goal of bringing change
November 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I don’t disagree that it is “change,” Avinash… but certainly, a bipartisan cabinet would be much more emblematic of the “change” he campaigned on.
And certainly, there are a lot of Republicans, independents, Constitutionalists, Federalists, Green Party members… even other Democrats that could present some wonderfully-vibrant, opposing viewpoints to President Obama.
So why settle for another round of Billary?
–Ag
November 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am
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