How To Build a Web 2.0 Government?

UltraAyla writes "With the announcement that President-Elect Obama will record his weekly address as a YouTube video to be posted at Change.gov, questions arise as to how an Internet-fueled candidacy based in part on a platform of government openness can begin to use technology to make government transparent. Aside from popular Slashdot policies, such as Net Neutrality, how do you think government (either in the United States or elsewhere) can best utilize technology to engage the public and make government more transparent and accessible?" Reader Rick Zeman points out a related New York Times story about how Obama will have to give up some of his communications gadgets because of the Presidential Records Act. Despite that, he apparently hopes to be the first US president to have a laptop on his desk in the Oval Office.

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What will he do with all that change?

[Anonymous Coward]

Black Guy Asks Nation For Change

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/black_guy_asks_nation_for_change

Don't use 19th century ideas

[MikeRT]

I'm not going to call Obama a communist, but his original plan for mandatory public service by all public school students is a variation of the old calls for an industrial army of the sort the Old Left used to advocate. If you want to be progressive, stop borrowing ideas from failed states like drafting unwilling people into public service.

Anti-White Racism in the Afro Community

[Anonymous Coward]

John McCain should have won the election. He was defeated by the racist voting pattern of the African-American community. Look at the CNN statistics.

95% of African-Americans voted for Obama.

If African-Americans did not vote on the basis of race, their percentage of support for Obama would have been 64.5%, at most. Asian and Hispanic support for Obama hovered around 64.5%. Neither Asians nor Hispanics used skin color in choosing a candidate. If 64.5% of African-Americans supported Obama, then McCain would have received 49.77% of the popular vote, and Obama would have received 49.23% of the popular vote. Obama would have lost.

Anti-white racism in the African-American community is ugly.

At this point, Afro supremacists claim that there is no racism since African-Americans typically vote for the Democratic candidates.

However, even when 2 Democratic candidates present nearly identical policies and positions, the African-Americans flock to the candidate whose skin color is black. For example, more than 90% of African-Americans supported Obama instead of Hillary Clinton even though both candidates are Democrats and both candidates presented nearly identical policies and positions.

Consider the case of North Carolina. In its Democratic primary, 91% of African-Americans voted for Obama due to the color of his skin. Check out the results of the Democratic primary in North Carolina.

By contrast, Hillary Clinton received only 7% of the African-American votes. She was handicapped by her white skin.

You will hear and read plenty of articles, written by African-Americans, defending this racist method of voting.

We should agree with them. I encourage everyone to vote on the basis of skin color. If you are White, Asian, or Hispanic, then you should always vote against the Black candidate.

Re:That is soooooo... 2006

[dyefade]

Mod parent up for creativity!