{"id":480,"date":"2007-01-17T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/01\/17\/the-president-of-tomorrow-on-youtube-today\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:17:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:17:31","slug":"the-president-of-tomorrow-on-youtube-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-president-of-tomorrow-on-youtube-today\/","title":{"rendered":"the President of tomorrow, on YouTube today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this is interesting. as political candidates for office realize that they can&#8217;t depend upon all the same-ol&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._presidential_election%2C_2000\">manipulative means of winning the vote<\/a> &#8211; or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_Rove\">the agents who employ these means<\/a> &#8211; they&#8217;re turning to YouTube to engage a wider audience &#8211; which also means that they personally start compiling video archives online and allow themselves to be scrutinized and referenced by the general public, which is great!<\/p>\n<p>the first such video I found [via <a href=\"http:\/\/thefringelement.blogspot.com\/index.html\">The Fringe Element<\/a>] is this video by John Edwards, whom you&#8217;ll remember was Kerry&#8217;s VP-running-mate in the failed &#8217;04 bid:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f1XnH6eBR9A\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>then I thought, &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/12\/25\/the-audacity-of-hope\/\">Barack Obama<\/a> have a YouTube account, EH!?&#8221; Sho nuff! Yesterday he put a video online announcing his plans to create a presidential exploratory committee!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H5h95s0OuEg\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>No matter what, I think it&#8217;s easy to say that &#8217;08 will be <em>interesting<\/em>!<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is interesting. as political candidates for office realize that they can&#8217;t depend upon all the same-ol&#8217; manipulative means of winning the vote &#8211; or the agents who employ these means &#8211; they&#8217;re turning to YouTube to engage a wider audience &#8211; which also means that they personally start compiling video archives online and allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[55,169,35],"series":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-video","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-7K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}