Posted on 11/11/2008 2:21:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President-elect Barack Obama will take office in January with a weapon no president has ever had at his disposal: An online army of more than 10 million supporters who can now be put to use to help carry out a sweeping agenda.
The vast lists of e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers compiled by the Obama campaign represent an opportunity for the incoming administration to establish a digital presidency that takes advantage of both new technologies and the wide enthusiasm that greeted Obama's candidacy.
In the six days since Election Day, Obama's transition team has taken a series of initial steps intended to turn Obama's online networks of supporters into governing tools. Obama aides set up a new Web site, www.change.gov, to keep backers engaged through Inauguration Day and beyond, and have made contact with key local volunteers to keep them in the fold.
The supporters -- including more than 3 million people who gave money to Obama's campaign -- provide Obama the opportunity to communicate directly with supporters in new ways, in real time, and at little cost. He'll be able to solicit input from a wide range of voters -- and, potentially, pressure members of Congress to follow Obama's lead on key legislation.
"We're in completely uncharted territory," said Micah Sifry, a co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum, which tracks the uses of new technologies in politics. "You've got all these people connected. Maybe they go to the White House Web site not just to tour the China Room, but to be guided to where the pressure points are in politics. That's huge."
But any effort to turn a political operation into a governing one raises legal issues.
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Spies.
Only if a Republican tries it.
LOL! The Obamacracy doesn't need no stinking laws. His whim and wishes are law of the land. His 10 Million Army of Hope-troopers will take care of any opposition.
Obama is weird and evil.
Let’s all just give him one big cyber Sieg Heil!
What will he need them for? He has the House & the Senate.
Hello..........HAL
All of us who are on Obama’s email lists are part of this network, it will be difficult to pull off surprises or illegal things like a DoS attack. The official email lists ain’t 4chan.
These people are INSANE! And I find out more people that voted for him every day...both of my brothers-in-law...and we’re catholic.
It feels like such betrayal to me...maybe I’m the insane one. lol
Can you believe we saw the same thing?
Yet another story with a “brown shirt” touch to it that makes me uncomfortable. Without the Biden quote and the civialian security quote this would be a non-issue. I guess we’ll wait and see...
I subscribed to his e-mail just to see what kind of crap was coming down the pike. I have a feeling that I was not the only one.
We’re gonna need some more mods.
Before Obama gets done, I’d bet over 50% turn on him.
. . . many of whom are US citizens . . .
God help Us! This guy is truly scary!!
President-elect Barack Obama will take office in January with a weapon no president has ever had at his disposal: An online army of more than 10 million supporters who can now be put to use to help carry out a sweeping agenda.
If this statement does not scare the living daylights out of anyone that considers themselves an American then nothing ever will or they are not an American.
Just listen to the code words.
a weapon at his disposal
10 million supporters (Obama not America)
can be put to use
and carry out a sweeping agenda
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