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Obama’s First Weekly YouTube Address

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Technology, Video

Be a witness to history…

My question: will this “YouTube” move be the exception or the rule going forward for Presidents? More specifically, if Obama is defeated in 2012, will the Republican candidate not do his or her weekly address via a technology like YouTube?

Honestly, something tells me that Obama will be breaking a lot of new ground with the technology he adopts to get his message out there. And there will be no way to go back.

Thoughts?

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2 Responses to “Obama’s First Weekly YouTube Address”

Doug Mataconis Says:
November 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
The most interesting development will happen sooner than that.

Obama’s address this week was, technically, the Democratic response to President Bush’s radio address

Once Obama is President, the Republicans will be the ones doing the response. Obama’s will be up on YouTube every week, what about the GOP ?
Austringer Says:
November 17th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I think they’ll respond alright, but I think it’s going to make XKCD’s opinion of YouTube comments look downright kind.

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