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Posted in General on Jan 21st, 2009
“With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet.” - President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address Wow, he just drew a parallel between climate change and nuclear war. And you know what, he’s right. Both are fundamental, existential threats. I’m so happy to have an administration [...]
Posted in General on Jan 18th, 2009
It will be very, very interesting to see how Obama’s new “Organizing For America” effort, run through the DNC, plays out. The new group, called Organizing for America, will be a “special project” of the Democratic National Committee, according to Obama transition spokesman Ben LaBolt, and it appears to be the primary vehicle for issue advocacy for Obama’s [...]
Posted in General on Nov 12th, 2008
I’m really surprised by the adulation that the Obama transition team’s website, Change.gov, has gotten. To me, it looks like a pretty design (all of Obama’s design work has been really excellent!), and a few web forms that dump your information into a black hole, never to be seen again (so far). This is what [...]