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 The YouTube Interview: Barack Obama (video)
The YouTube Interview: Barack Obama (video)
Watch U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama answer questions from YouTube. The Senator talks about technology and foreign policy, a...
The YouTube Presidency
The YouTube Presidency
voices.washingtonpost.com — By Jose Antonio Vargas The White House has gone YouTube. Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube ... (more) The YouTube Presidency
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The YouTube Presidency
44 — The Clickocracy The YouTube Presidency By Jose Antonio Vargas The White House has gone YouTube. Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube video and posted on Obama's transition site, Change.gov ...

Obama Delivers First Democratic Video Address
The Caucus — From now on it will be the weekly “Democratic Radio Address” in name only. President-elect Barack Obama, capitalizing on his successful use of multimedia technologies during the campaign, delivered his message on Saturday using video as well as audio. It may seem like a political no-brainer in the age of YouTube, but as aides to Mr. Obama pointed out, it is a first for a president or president-elect. In his address, which he recorded in Chicago on Friday, Mr. Obama focused on the country’s financial crisis, calling it — as he has before — “the greatest economic challenge of our times.” “While the road ahead will be long, and the work will be hard,” Mr. ...

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