Archive for March, 2008

One Australian’s View of Obama

Published
by
Albert
on March 17, 2008
in Barack Obama and Political Blogs
. 1 Comment

I read this blog for a variety of reasons and was pleased to find an insightful post on Obama:

http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/03/18/barak-obama-wants-a-national-cto/

I love the idea of government using open document formats - and have been pleasantly surprised at how the US government has been quite willing to consider open source software as well. Additionally, the US government has traditionally made its “creative works” part of the public domain, including photographs, and even stamp artwork from the USPS. However, the USPS started copyrighting their works a couple decades ago, but I digress.

From what I’ve seen of local politics, government CTO’s are not much more than spokespersons, but who knows, maybe a national CTO would be different.

The Upcoming DNC

Published
by
Albert
on March 12, 2008
in Barack Obama, Campaigns, Convention, McCain, Mitt Romney and Republicans
. 1 Comment

This Democratic National Convention is going to be interesting, to say the least. Many people are already referring to the 1968 DNC in Chicago, where riots broke out between war protesters and police - which I’m not sure is a relevant comparison.

It is going to be interesting in my humble opinion because it might just pit the people versus the political establishment. By saying that, I mean that it will be very interesting if Obama wins the popular vote among democrats to get on their ticket, but the “super” delegates put Hillary on it.

The “dream ticket” that the Clintons mentioned with Obama as VP came as a surprise to me, as I’m sure it did Barack, and I can only perceive it as a dream ticket for the republicans - maybe Hillary is on the GOP take to mess with the dems’ campaign? Wouldn’t that be interesting! I mean with a republican candidate as democrat-friendly as McCain - would it even be necessary?

Speaking of the GOP and McCain, I haven’t heard anything about McCain’s campaign financing issues which were mentioned recently. Maybe it will surface again once he’s chosen a running mate. I don’t think we’ll hear much directly from his campaign until he’s officially announced as the republican candidate anyway. Frankly I’m hoping that he picks Ron Paul, but I’m doubtful. If people are concerned about his age, he’ll probably pick someone younger. I’ve heard mention that he’ll pick Romney, but I seriously doubt it.