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i know that IGN isn't exactly The New York Times...

... but holy fucking shit.  This is "professional" writing?  How do you publish something like this and not get fired.  I honestly wonder if Mark Bozon even wrote this, or just copy/pasted it from some kid's blog or forum post.

Full text follows... as I assume that someone will have the decency to clean it up on the actual site:

omaha, ne - now part of the colbert nation

... and yeah, we did it.  Go us!

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The Obama administration hasn't even taken office, and already they are building the All-Thing.

People who follow Obama online have become a community that the president-elect can tap into, said Andrew Raseij, founder of TechPresident.com, a Web site that tracked the online operations of the 2008 presidential campaigns.

"He now has his own special interest. He has a group of people he can go to and ask them to participate in helping him pass his legislative agenda," Raseij said.

He also predicted that Obama will use online video and interactivity to revolutionize the way the commander in chief communicates.

"I think the days of just a Saturday morning radio address and an occasional press conference as the way the president speaks to the American public are over," Raseij said.

"I wouldn't be surprised if Barack Obama starts doing a weekly YouTube video and also fireside chats for the 21st century by allowing people to filter up questions to him that he might answer."

The president-elect already has said he'll have a five-day online comment period before signing any nonemergency legislation, so Americans can be part of the process.

He's also planning to appoint a chief technology officer and has pledged to get true broadband to every community in the country.

(http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/10/obama.wired/index.html)

I don't remember drinking the Obama kool-aid, and I can't pinpoint when it happened.  I still disagree with a lot of his policies.  That said, for the last week or so I've had this very unfamiliar and uncomfortable feeling.  They say it is something called "hope."  Actual, honest-to-god "change" that I'm dangerously close to believing in.  My inner skeptic is grumbling in the corner, feeling rather betrayed.  I don't know if I am ready for this.

democracy ftw

As I was driving in to work today, there were a bunch of Lee Terry people holding signs on an overpass over the interstate.  I already had my window open (because it is 60-odd degrees in November, WTF?), so it was very easy to flip them off.

Now... GO VOTE!