Welcome to politics...YouTube style
So far at least three Democratic candidates, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson, have all announced they are beginning the process of running for President in 2008 via streaming video. That's obviously becoming as powerful a medium for politics as it is for the people being governed. That's what makes this initiative by Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo so interesting. He wants to hear from people who want to produce their own response to President Bush's State of the Union address tomorrow night. He notes that Jim Webb will be delivering the official Democratic response after the speech but is interested in helping to give a larger audience to the reaction that everyday citizens might have to it.
It's not that an outlet like TPM is needed in order for people to have their say - YouTube and other video sharing sites are often all the platform that's needed - but this puts all those in one convenient spot. That's pretty cool.
