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How to ask Obama a question
Citizen Crain —
... Calling all activists - now is your opportunity to influence president-elect Barack Obama's thinking on gay issues (actually all issues). It has become very much easier to submit a question to his transition team as well as vote on other questions that have already been submitted. Even though I am traveling, when I got an email from John Podesta, co-chair of Obama's transition team, announcing this new feature called Open for Questions on their transition web page, I dropped everything, registered, asked a question and voted on other questions. My question was:"How soon will ...
Ari Melber: Ask Obama For a Torture Special Prosecutor
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The Obama transition team is taking questions again at Change.gov, throwing open the site this week for citizen input. The first run of this experiment was a mixed bag. The platform was open and transparent, but the official answers felt more like old boilerplate than new responses. When the submitted questions parrot toics in the traditional media, of course, the exchange can feel like a dated press conference. But here's a vital ...
Daily Digest: Remodeling Change.gov, from Inside and Out
techPresident —
... Launched at yesterday lunchtime, the second round of Change.gov's Open for Questions -- the Obama transition team's attempt to tap into the questions Americans most want their next president to answer -- has already pulled in 1,753,453 votes from 39,860 people on 33,150 questions. The first OFQ round ...
Hullabaloo — ... The Obama transition team is taking questions again at Change.gov, throwing open the site this week for citizen input. The first run of this experiment was a mixed bag. The platform was open and transparent, but the official answers felt more like old boilerplate than new responses. When the submitted questions parrot toics in the traditional media, of course, the exchange can feel like a dated press conference. But here's a vital ...
Memo to HRC, Tammy and Barney
Citizen Crain —
... I just checked Obama's new interactive web page Open for Questions to see how the voting is going on LGBT issues. When you search for questions that have the words gay or lesbian in them, the question getting the most votes (3,959 -- ten times the number of votes as the second place question) is:"You've stated during your campaign that you don't support marriage rights for GLBT citizens. How will you ensure that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have rights equal to those of married couples?"In fact of the top ten questions, three deal explicitly with obtaining ...
Ask Obama for a Torture Special Prosecutor
Daily Kos —
... The Obama transition team is taking questions again at Change.gov, throwing open the site this week for citizen input. The first run of this experiment was a mixed bag. The platform was open and transparent, but the official answers felt more like old boilerplate than new responses. When the submitted questions parrot toics in the traditional media, of course, the exchange can feel like a dated press conference. But here's a vital ...
Daily Digest: For Open Government, It's Put Up (Online) Time
techPresident —
... We've been covering how Change.gov's Open for Question's feature is progressing, and have a pair of updates. The first: the idea of appointing a special prosecutor for the Bush administration, promoted by Democrats.com's Bob Fertik's and covered on techPres last week, ...
Advocates of a Special Prosecutor for Bush Seek an Answer from Obama
The Caucus —
... Though the Obama team has promised to answer some of the top questions as early as this week, they have not said whether they will respond to Mr. Fertik’s, which has received more than 22,000 votes since the second round of the question-and-answer feature began on Dec. 30. The site logged more than 1.5 million votes for 20,000-plus questions as of Wednesday. The second highest-ranked submission, which is about oversight of the nation’s banking industry, is several thousand of votes behind the query about a special prosecutor. Mr. Fertik’s question has been pushed to the top, ...
It's our relationships, stupid!
Citizen Crain —
... (a non-profit organization that will present to President Obama the issues obtaining the most votes after all the voting rounds are completed) and I have been monitoring the voting at Open for Questions on Obama's official web site. On Obama's site you can propose a question or vote on other people's questions. They have finished round two and soon they will post answers to the top questions from round two. The questions on Obama's site are grouped into pre-assigned cateories: The Economy, Health Care, National Security, Foreign Policy, Education, Energy and Environment, ...
Ari Melber: Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team's call for citizen queries to the President-Elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture and illegal surveillance by the U.S. government. ...
Daily Digest: Change.gov Serves Up Hardball for Obama
techPresident —
... The highest-rated query for President-elect Barack Obama over on Change.gov's Open for Questions feature certainly isn't a softball along the lines of "What are you going to name the First Puppy?" It's whether, as president, Obama will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush Administration on everything from torture to wiretapping. Nation writer Ari Melber and Democrats.com's Bob Fertik have been rallying support for the question, which has attracted just under 23,000 votes, putting it at the top ...
Obama On Appointing Special Prosecutor To Investigate Bush’s Crimes: ‘We Need To Look Forward’
Think Progress —
... ” feature last week asked whether President-elect Obama will appoint a special prosecutor to “independently investigate” the “greatest crimes” committed under Bush. The inquiry, submitted by ...
Obama On Appointing Special Prosecutor To Investigate Bush?s Crimes: ?We Need To Look Forward?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... ” feature last week asked whether President-elect Obama will appoint a special prosecutor to “independently investigate” the “ greatest crimes ” committed under Bush. The inquiry, submitted by ...
Will We Get Accountability? Obama's Reply to Blogger Bob Fertik's Special Prosecutor Question
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... , posed this question to President-elect Barack Obama:"Will you appoint a special prosecutor -- ideally Patrick Fitzgerald -- to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?"Fertik submitted the question to ...
