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Interactive Campaigning ala Wiki
brettlg writes to tell us LinuxInsider is reporting that Utah Democratic hopeful, Peter Ashdown, is hoping to leverage his knowledge of the internet and small business resourcefulness to take down the incumbent Senator Orrin Hatch next year. From the article: "Peter Ashdown is the founder of Xmission, Utah's oldest Internet service provider (ISP). His Web site includes a blog and a monthly live chat session. But Ashdown's site takes public participation on his campaign Web site one step further -- opening his platform to all. The site is based on the "Wiki" open-source model made famous by Wikipedia."
The problem with this idea is it's just a magnet for people to tamper with his page - Wiki had to block edits of Bush and Kerry during the 2004 election. There isn't the mechanisms to revert changes and viewers can get a bad impression. Just now, for instance, I noticed that somebody defaced his website by posting a picture of a really geeky-looking white guy.
Slashdot: providing anti-social weirdos a soapbox, since 1997.
"Though I do have a hard time believing there was not one fiscally responsible Republican you had an opportunity to vote for the in the past 30 years."
For president, yes. Not one.
"Additionally, bearing in mind that most of our current spending can be accounted for in a foreign war,"
First of all that's bullshit. The war "only" costs 200 billion or so. Secondly the war itself was discretionary spending. There was no reason to invade iraq which was a secular socialist state which opposed religious fundamentalism.
"do not forget the amount of spending Democratic Presidents Kennedy and Johnson did on Vietnam."
Once again discretionary spending but in their case they kind of inherited the problem.
"Also, most economic indicators would also suggest we are doing better than we were at the end of Clinton's second term."
Yea right, and Iraq is going to join OPEC any day now. Thanks for the laugh though.
evil is as evil does