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A Preview of Election 08 - Podcasting Politicians
Video Blogger writes "The LA Times predicts that the 2008 election will feature the rise of Podcasting Politicians, as strategists from both parties try to ride the latest trends to secure a victory in 2008. 'You'll not only be able to text people with messages, you'll be able to raise money, deliver video, audio, create viral organizing -- where one person sees something really interesting and it gets passed on and on,' says Donnie Fowler, a Democratic strategist."
unless I have a better choice than a douche versus a turd, which seemed to be all that was being offered in the presidential elections the last few years.
This technology might be fun if it helps get a darkhorse nominated, but because the people in the age group most likely to listen to podcasts don't bother to vote (demographically), I think it will be a nonissue.
In any case, I would much rather not hear about the presidential elections until '08 itself, thank you very much. Perhaps podcasts can play a role in '06 elections. Yes, it's likely to be more local, but while everybody is shitting their pants waiting for Bush to leave office in '08, you can vote for people and hopefully get them into all sort of positions that will give his administration a tough time. After all, even the president/administration has to work with people (senators, congressmen, local politicians) to make various things happen.*
*I'm independent before people accuse me one being for 1 crappy party or the other.
There's no reason for a serious politician to podcast. The votings been rigged for a long time, and it's common knowledge that politicians are in it for the money that they get from businesses in the form of contributions and bribes to pass laws that give the business paying the politician a financial advantage in the short or long term, usually at the detriment to everybody else.
If you listen to the speeches, the politicans just repeat the same pointless nothings, without any connection to serious and mostly unknown modern issues. They silence their opponents through anti-1st amendment libel and slander laws, since the truth usually cannot be explicitly proven. The entire notion of a ballot, with a very limited number of people to choose from, was created by nearly ancient corrupt, cheating polititians, who after winning the cheating contest that we call elections, made new laws to ensure that they and their team could stay in office and accept large quantities of money in the form of bribes.
The current Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel has already a podcast.
. bundesregierung.de/podcast/Die_Kanzlerin_direkt_01 .m4v
s /VideoPodcast/video-podcast.html
The first podcast (obviously in german): http://a4.g.akamai.net/7/4/12313/v0001/medien.www
All podcasts of Angela:
http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/Webs/BK/DE/Aktuelle
What do you think about it?
Indeed. Vote 3rd Party, ANY 3rd party... but by moving to someplace together and being even moderately active will help even more... voting isn't just enough, sadly.
Those supporting Libertarians (and other assorted liberty-centric parties such as the Constitution party) should consider the
Free State Project, and move to New Hampshire. We're already having an effect here.
The religious zealots can move to South Carolina Similarly, the Greens could move to Oregon... Florida can remain a neutral zone, where all the aging folks will migrate toward once the little red light on their palms starts blinking. (joke)
Vote with your feet, not just your ballot.
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