Joe Trippi, the Internet politics guru whose computer geeks made Howard Dean a contender in 2004 and who went on to design Obama’s socially networked campaign machine, offers a provocative and educated guess.
Trippi predicted that Obama would use his forces, first and foremost, to intimidate congressional foes of his agenda, rally his allies and forge “one of the most powerful presidencies in American history.”
Certainly, Obama reaches the White House with the biggest, best organized, fastest-acting grass-roots army in the history of presidential campaigning.
Moreover, because his Internet operation was miles ahead of Republican John McCain’s, Obama’s liberal-to-libertarian electronic activists are in a position to dominate the new political medium much as conservative Republicans dominate talk radio.
As for political utility, many thousands of volunteers such as Hood will be deployable within hours, with great precision and at almost no cost, thanks to the campaign’s state-of-the-art information-management systems.
Oh I am so scared! Geesh, sounds like a veiled threat like that’s supposed to shake me up or something. Anyone can start a yahoo group and make postings and start internet lies and can be sued too. And this is the kind of quote that needs to be saved for the next election cycle for commercials and also for the civilian gendarmes/brownshirts that his highness wants to create. The thing about the next election, a well coordinated well documented campaign will be needed with campaigning needing to start soon with speeches, comedy, books etc before it blows up to the public level for voting. It takes awhile for the masses to get what is going on. Most Americans truly resent spying and privacy intrusions—something that was not brought up in this election cycle and the Emperor’s vote on this issue is damming. And with people beng hypnotized, it will take extreme documentation to get them to snap out of it. This is one of those quotes that can be later used against his highness to show he is crossing the line into facism. But it has to start now, like where is the RNC chair yelling in the press on something like this—what is the RNC chair doing? Waiting until the last minute when people are oversaturated with TV commercials when they won’t listen is too late.
The RNC chair isn’t the only one who needs to know, we could join forces with the Libertarians and the new Constitution party. Just to expose this. The biggest problem I see is the MSM again. Most of the sheople get their “facts” from CNN or Oprah. We need our own conservative MSM outlet, besides talk radio. Most talk radio listeners are doing something else while listening. Sheople watch SNL and the news for entertainment and think they are learning something.