14 | November | 2008 | Science Addiction

Do You Want to End Up Like Bush?

Via Dave Winer, here’s a good catch by Think Progress:

French President Sarkozy talking to Russian Prime Minister Putin. “Do you want to end up like Bush?’ Mr. Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: ‘Ah — you have scored a point there.'”

Of course, Dave Winers riff is icing on the cake:

How well do Sarkozy and Putin understand that, unless they organize their people on the Internet first, Obama might do it for them.

And he points out this web site, from Israel’s Netanyahu, that looks exactly like the site of a certain Barry from Chicago:

Change Watch: The YouTube President

First, he was outed as a fanboy. Then he used Flickr on his transition web site. And now he pledges to use YouTube for weekly addresses.

And here I thought our similarities ended with our pan-national childhoods. Former President Roosevelt, who began the fireside chats in the ’30s, was quoted as saying, “What’s a you tube?” More such changes will undoubtedly follow, as the Obama campaign morphs in to the Obama presidency.

In other news, if you want to be part of the Obama team- expect to disclose Facebook and MySpace pages, embarrassing emails/texts and aliases/handles you’ve used online. If they take these things too seriously, no one who has ever been 17 will be hired.

UPDATE: And Chris Soghoian asks Obama to put the videos up in open formats using BitTorrent. Fantastic idea.

November 14, 2008

Good Times: HuffPost and Drudge Agree on Headlines

Aah, bipartisanship– where will you rear your pretty head next? Both Drudge and Huffington Post can agree- bailouts are a crazy thing. Both of them scream on their front page (a version of):

Mayors of Philadelphia, Phoenix seek bailout share

Good times.