thenation.com - 1/12/2009
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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 ...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/10/2009
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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 ...
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Ari Melber: Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for ...
crookedtimber.org - 1/11/2009
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crookedtimber.org —
One of the safer predictions I’ve made in
recent years is this (in The American Prospect ):...
[O]nline activists are unlikely to follow Obama if he moves toward a post-ideological politics of citizenship and may even use Obama’s own ...
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Ari Melber: Obama on Torture: Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... not focus on prosecuting government officials who practiced illegal torture or war crimes, the president-elect said on Sunday, though he added that prosecutions and independent commission have not been completely ruled out. This was Obama's first major statement on the issue since April; over the past few weeks, Obama's aides have repeatedly ducked questions about what, if anything, the administration will do to enforce laws violated by officials under President Bush. The question topped the list of ...
Ari Melber: Change.Gov's First Big Failure
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Robert Gibbs, Obama's chief spokesman and a seasoned press operative, knows how to maneuver around prickly issues. So when the most popular question on Change.gov asked whether Obama would appoint a special prosecutor to "independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping"--besting 76,000 other questions submitted in recent weeks by citizens--Gibbs simply ignored it. Instead, he recorded a YouTube video tackling other popular questions. Then Obama aides posted a note on January 9 inaccurately ...
1/22: Caroline Bows Out
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... Presidents and activists (such as Abraham Lincoln and abolitionists; and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and labor leaders), but that "together they achieved great things." Eventually the conversation turned to the Obama team's Internet outreach. Terkel thinks the Obama admin. has been cautious in embracing user-generated content: "There is a White House blog, which is great, but there are no comments." Terkel also noted that the Obama communications team was reluctant to answer the top-rated question on Change.gov (about appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Bush ...
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