President-Elect Obama's First YouTube Address
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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. Obama said, ...

Obama Urges Congress To Move On Economic Plan (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to get moving next week on an economic rescue plan that would extend jobless benefits among other actions. "If Congress does not pass an immediate plan that gives the economy the boost it needs, I will make it my first order of business as president," Obama said in his Democratic Party's weekly radio address. The radio address was also videotaped and being posted online through a YouTube link to Obama's transition Web site, . The president-elect plans to continue to record online videos of the addresses after he takes the oath of office Jan. 20. ...

Obama Urges Congress To Move On Economic Plan (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to get moving next week on an economic rescue plan that would extend jobless benefits among other actions. "If Congress does not pass an immediate plan that gives the economy the boost it needs, I will make it my first order of business as president," Obama said in his Democratic Party's weekly radio address. The radio address was also videotaped and being posted online through a YouTube link to Obama's transition Web site, . The president-elect plans to continue to record online videos of the addresses after he takes the oath of office Jan. 20. ...

Obama Launches ‘Your Weekly Address From The President-Elect’ On YouTube
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —

Around the filter
Ben Smith's Blog — Billed as a transparency initiative, Obama puts his weekly address on YouTube. It's an extension of the campaign's ability to reach supporters directly, projecting openness without sacrificing control.

Obama's First Weekly Address
The Atlantic Politics Channel — As I click on it, about 3,800 people have watched it. 

Obama's weekly radio address: The video version
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — As promised, via YouTube, your President-elect:

Your Weekly Address from the President-elect
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog — For the first time, the weekly Democratic address has been released as a web video. It will also continue to air on the radio. President-elect Obama plans to to publish these weekly updates through the Transition and then from the White House. Today's address from the President-elect concerns the current economic crisis: Also available on AOL, Yahoo, and MSN High-resolution, Quicktime format: (106MB .mov file).

Obama delivers first Democratic video address.
Think Progress — Yesterday, President-elect BaracK Obama recorded the “Demcratic Radio Address” using video as well as audio. The New York Times notes, “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 the message, Obama urges Congress to “pass at least a down-payment on a rescue plan that will create jobs, relieve the squeeze on families, and help get the economy growing again.” Watch it: ...

The YouTube President
Politics Daily — Filed under: Democrats, Barack Obama, Media, Viral VideoFollowing-up on my earlier post on how president-elect Barack Obama's embrace of technology has altered the course of political history, here's his first weekly YouTube address to the nation. Say goodbye to that dinosaur, the weekly radio message. Now, our "fireside chats" can be posted on blogs, or e-mailed to the nation with a few simple clicks. As of this posting (at 4:15 on Saturday) it has been viewed over 157,000 times. So, here we go. Lights, camera, ...

Election Central Saturday Roundup
TPM Election Central — Obama Premieres The Presidential YouTube Address Barack Obama has posted the first of his weekly YouTube addresses to the nation, a modern-day replacement of the old-fashioned weekly radio addresses. In this one, Obama urges immediate Congressional action on the economy: "Next week, Congress will meet to address the spreading impact of the economic crisis. I urge them to pass at least a down-payment on a rescue plan that will create jobs, relieve the squeeze on families, and help get the economy growing again," Obama says. "In particular, we cannot afford to delay providing help for ...

Obama's First National Address on G20 Summit
Politicol News — President Elect Barack Obama wasted no time to address the nation on the G-20 Summit Meetings in Washington and behind the scene, he has sent surrogates to meet with foreign leaders. Bush seemed as his usual dumbfounded self, and as the world leaders stated there must be more regulation of the monitary systems in place in each country. Bush has caused this crisis by allowing financial institutions regulate themselves and increased the danger by selling credit swaps or derrivatives which crashed the mortgage industry. Putting us in peril by deregulation was only one of the major blunders of ...

The Office of the President-Elect speaks!
Althouse — Listen up! I'm afraid he's going to be boring! Did he say anything other than what we already know? There's a big economic problem. Mmm hmm. A fair amount of my attention focused on the almost-readable writing on that thing in the lower right-hand corner. Is that the pot that plant is in -- maybe it says "Arthur" -- or a separate plaque sort of a thing? Anyway, he said something about how the country can "rise again" and how we all need to sacrifice because we all "rise or fall" as "one people." All this rising and oneness... ...

Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect
Politicol News — Is it just me or does President Elect Obama's message make more sense than George Bush's comments on the G-20 Summit? http://feedproxy.google.com/blogspot/Rnyd

Obama on Economic Crisis
Informed Comment — President-Elect Obama addresses the nation on the economic crisis The thing that worries me most is that Bush is still making policy. It should be remembered that the banks failed and produced a ruinous run on them very late in Hoover's term, leaving FDR to announce the bank holiday as soon as he got in. The depths of the incompetence of the current incumbent may not have been plumbed yet.

e-Bama: First Weekly Presidential Web Video Address
PoliticsTV.com — Seems like the Obama team anticipated the suggestions we and others have made about making the weekly radio address a Web Video address. Great graphics and message. But otherwise - c’mon guys – let’s up the production values, and quick. The video doesn’t look presidential: • YouTube is an Intimate, Small Screen format, not a widescreen format. Don’t waste resolution just to be artsy fartsy film school chic. It’s just dumb and self-indulgent. • Center the Shot. Again, leave the ...

Jonathan Garthwaite: Obama's Weekly Radio Address
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — In the era of Obama, "Radio" is being dropped from the name. It'll still be on the radio but it's now simply the "Weekly Address." Bonus: For those who want to watch Obama awkwardly read the address, it's now on YouTube. I suppose it's a big deal to some that the Presidential Weekly Radio Address will now be on YouTube. Personally, I'm just looking foward to what some creative video editors can come up with.

Obamatube
Matthew Yglesias — Barack Obama’s first weekly radio address isn’t hugely interesting on its own terms, but the decision to release it as a video on YouTube is a small change, but also a smart and interesting one: A new technological/media paradigm can empower politicians who are good at using it. Famously, FDR deployed the radio to great effect and though TV existed throughout the Eisenhower years, it was JFK who was the first president to really use it to great effect. ...

The Democratic Weekly Address Online
Daily Kos — President-Elect Barack Obama brings the weekly Democratic address into the 21st century with the first ever release on web video: In other news transition news, Valerie Jarrett has been named "senior adviser and assistant to the president for intergovernmental relations and public liaison." A longtime friend of the Obamas, she has an impressive resume. In this newly released video, she discusses transparency goals and hiring practices for the new White House staff. The Obama administration looks determined to utilize online technology to change the way the government ...

The First YouTube Weekly Address from President-Elect Obama
Firedoglake — "President-elect Obama talks about the economy in this week's Democratic address." Recording the Weekly Address on video and posting it on YouTube seems like a no-brainer -- which is why we never saw it done in the past. You know, having a sitting lame-duck President with no brain and all. One can only imagine how President-Elect McCain would have delivered his weekly address to the nation. Smoke signals or stone tablets or something. Maybe Betamax? I am so glad our new President-Elect knows how to use email, teh googles and the toobz.

Fireside Chats in the 21st Century
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Obama delivers first Democratic video address.
The Hollywood Liberal — Obama delivers first Democratic video address. Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama recorded the “Democratic Radio Address” using video as well as audio. The New York Times notes, “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 the message, Obama urges Congress […] Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama recorded the “Democratic Radio Address” using video as well as audio. The New York Times notes, “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 ...

Rating Obama's First Weekly YouTube Address
techPresident — There have been a number of good critiques of President-elect Obama's one-way use of YouTube to broadcast his weekly radio address (see especially my colleague Ellen Miller and John Dickerson's takes) and so I'm not going to repeat them here. By posting the address on YouTube--even without comments or ratings allowed--Obama is allowing us to see something that we couldn't see before when presidential addresses were just on radio: who cares to listen and who cares to link. I was impressed to see that as of this morning, the YouTube of his three-minute talk already has 500,000 views. We're going to start keeping track of these numbers, ...

Obama's First Weekly Radio Address
Hoffmania! — Presidential. Nice change after eight years.

Another YouTube upload by Barack Obama
Top of the Ticket — For years, people have been saying that radio is dead. But yesterday, Barack Obama may have put another nail in the coffin when he posted his second weekly address to the nation on YouTube. The tradition of the weekly radio address (which dates back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt) has gone viral. The president-elect plans to continue the practice once he is sworn in, his transition team says. In fact, they plan to create a White House YouTube channel. It's no surprise, of course. Obama built much of his campaign on the Internet, and YouTube is a fast (and free) forum to speak to the ...

A You Tube First
Hotline On Call Part Deux — Pres.-elect Barack Obama gave the Democratic radio address this weekend. The first? The transition posted it on You Tube. 657,393 hits as of this posting.

P-E Obama's first weekly internet chat. Doh.......he forgot to say "God Bless America"
BlondeSense — P-E Obama's first weekly internet chat. Doh.......he forgot to say "God Bless America" Posted by JerseyCynic | 6:35 AM | [image] [image]

Morning Roundup: Around the Web on Lemon Street
The Latest on Air America — If you ever wondered why investors are allergic to profligate spending coupled with managerial inertia, take a look at Robert J Samuelson's superb op-ed in today's Washington Post , who argues that a bankrupt GM (and dark times like we've never seen) may be the silver bullet for our ailing economy. Meanwhile the G20 vow to create some rules and stimulus and stuff so that things don't get worse when the bottom falls out.  Bloomberg seems to be suggesting a down day may be the way of things on the Street today. Did you see Obama's first You Tube weekly address? The Guardian has a good take on the Obama-60 Minutes interview ...

Watch Obama Own the Internet All Over Again
The Next Right — As we debate how to rebuild our party with new technology and stronger grassroots, watch for the media to fawn all over Obama's use of the Internet as President as he brings (some) of the tactics of his winning campaign to the White House. It began this weekend with the release of President-elect Obama's YouTube address and the transformation of the anachronistic radio address. This generated an explosion of media interest, even though 1) the format is not especially compelling, and 2) at least initially, ratings and comments on the video have been turned off, preventing ordinary Americans ...

My.BarackObama.gov
techPresident — As Republicans debate how to rebuild the party with new technology and stronger grassroots, watch for the media to fawn all over Obama's use of the Internet as President as he brings (some) of the tactics of his winning campaign to the White House. It began this weekend with the release of President-elect Obama's YouTube address and the transformation of the anachronistic radio address. This generated an explosion of media interest, even though 1) the format is not especially compelling, and 2) at least initially, ratings and comments on the video have been turned off, preventing ordinary Americans from talking back -- ...

Daily Digest: Can Republicans Learn to Stop Worrying and Embrace the 'Net?
techPresident — Obama Campaign's Trickle Down Belief in the Bottom Up: The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas has some exclusive numbers the Obama campaign's online operation. They are, of course, rather huge. Some 3 million donors made 6.5 million contributions online, for a grand total of more than $500 million dollars. Their email list, the campaign says, contains more than 13 million addresses. More than a million people signed up for their text messages. And, Vargas reports, new media director Joe Rospars had at least thirty staffers in wing of the campaign (though that's far fewer than ...

So, Who Does Your Weekly YouTube Address?
BAGnewsNotes — BHO Weekly Radio Address, 11.15.08 BHO Weekly Radio Address, 11.22.08 Karen, who wrote me last week about the surprisingly banal staging of Barack Obama's first Weekly YouTube ...

David Latt: Pundits, Get Used to It, Obama's Ahead of the Curve
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — During the Cold War, pundits who wanted to sound knowledgeable about the leadership of the Soviet Union waited breathlessly for the Kremlin's May Day Parade in Red Square. Then they could analyze the photographs of the reviewing stand where all the political and military leaders stood as the parade of mobile weapons and brigades of soldiers marched by. In hopes of figuring out what the Soviet Union would do in the coming year, they analyzed nuances: new medals on the chests of military officers, which political leaders stood next to one another, or who was absent from that year's parade. We're experiencing our own May Day Parade punditry as the media ...

Obama Gets in a Few Pre-Inaugural Words on Rebuilding
techPresident — President-elect Barack Obama is out with the second of his weekly bite-sized video messages to the American public, billed as "Your Weekly Address" and posted on both Change.gov and YouTube. (Though there's no Google monopoly at work here. Obama's video addresses are posted not only on the search giant's video site but on MSN Video and Yahoo! Video as well -- though you do have to squint a bit to see the links to the non-YouTube postings.) In this week's four-minute spot, Obama talks with urgency about the economic situation facing the country, saying that struggling Americans "need help, and they need it ...

Daily Digest: Microfundraising Meets Conservative Community Building
techPresident — Online Right Spins Twitter Web: Republican State Assemblyman Chuck Devore of California is the subject of compelling online experiment as he attempts to unseat sitting Senator Barbara Boxer -- a Twitter-based fundraising drive, under the banner of #TCOT (that is, Top Conservatives on Twitter). The online right is eager to colonize the microblogging platform. And while the donations are small in number (about 70 at press time) and amount (most are $20 or under), the project is cleverly attempting to build a tweeting web by, for example, tying contributors to those who led ...

Bob Burnett: Obama's Crisis Presidency
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — As the presidency of George Bush was defined by the 9/11 crisis, Barack Obama's first term will be shaped by a battered economy. Bush launched his "war" on terror and Obama will have to wage war on recession. To be successful, Obama must learn from five critical mistakes Bush made mismanaging his crisis. Involve the American People: In the days after 9/11, George Bush made a critical error by not involving Americans in his war on terror. At the time, critics noted Bush had failed to learn from the actions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. As World War II unfolded, FDR ensured that all ...

Damn Frenchies (and Evil Obamabots too)
Booman Tribune — Guess who is sticking their Gallic noses into our (i.e., America's) business? And using their subtle diplomatic wiles to seduce our allies and enemies both to sit down and - gasp - talk! Here's the story from that Commie rag, the New York Effing Times: PARIS — Afghanistan and most of its neighbors agreed at an informal conference here on Sunday to work together to stabilize the country, restrict narcotics traffic and coordinate action against terrorist groups. The conference of foreign ministers, organized by France, was aimed at shoring up regional relations in the interest of security and stability. “There is a consensus that there can be no peace, security and ...