This week, Barack Obama begins his weekly radio addresses, which is something every president does. But he will be the first president to simultaneously release video versions of those radio addresses to YouTube.
This is long overdue, of course, and just a tiny little change that will make the presidency more a part of people’s daily lives. Of course, whether people will watch those YouTube videos unless the president-elect gets hit in the balls, does the Numa Numa dance, or lights something dangerous on fire remains to be seen.
Here’s hoping he feeds peanut butter to the new White House dog–on YouTube, natch!
You naive Obamunist cultists sure are going to be surprised when your Saviour re-institutes the DRAFT and bombs his first third-world country. Hooray for Zionism as usual! WHAT A “CHANGE” from all the Zionists who ran the Bush Administration!
I expect you to censor this comment because it conflicts with your naive opinions, and also because my comment is backed up with facts that you cannot refute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0B7dOQwK…
TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH ZIONIST MILITANT RAHM EMANUEL:
SMITH: I meant to ask you about the universal service piece of the plan. Can you tell me about it? Like, how is this going to work? Are people going to live in barracks?
EMANUEL: Universal Civil Defense Training… I think he had it at 18, but we were saying somewhere between the ages of 18 and 25, you will do three months of training. You can do it in your(inaudible). Some point in college you can do just that. There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint similar experience of civil… what we call civil defense training or civil service… some sense of service to country in preparation, which will give people a sense of what it means to be an American. We propose three months. At the end of the day someone says it should be four more. I’m not going to sit here and hold it up.
SMITH: I mean it’s a lot more than the U.S. government asks of anybody right now.
EMANUEL: Guess what? We have a lot more challenges, so we are going to need a lot to do it.
SMITH: I mean I don’t mean to get hung up on the aesthetics of it, but like uniforms… is it like Europe… people go absent?
EMANUEL: If you’re worried about going to have to do 50 jumping jacks, the answer is “yes.”
SMITH: Are you kinda shifting the “country-esque” Army bases in the Summers? I mean… I wonder how it’s going work. This is people’s experiences. It’s so abstract. Do you go nine to five in some course in a Red Cross building?
EMANUEL: The whole idea there is it will be worked on you can do it through your State-National guard could be the vehicle for that. The goal here (inaudible) to work on piece of legislation for ya’ and all that, but that’s one venue of doing it.
IT’S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
He gave a radio address, albeit a short one, last weekend.
I expect it wouldn’t be any more complicated to have them released as video podcasts, too, given that the content would be in the public domain… Who in the new administration could we write to to suggest that?
Hell, I’ll watch those. I never did know where to tune in the radio addresses anyway.
I’ll bet there will be more people watching/listening than EVER before. (and not just because the population has increased).
This guy embodies a lot of hope for a lot of people. Even other countries are watching…
If there are adorable kittens, I’ll watch.
I hope its not a exclusive Google, YouTube thing, but on all video hosting sites and BitTorrent. It better be everywhere.
to be honest I’m down with mandatory short term service that @2 is talking about. I doesn’t have to be militaristic but it should be focused on serving your country and community in some way.
@2 – I don’t understand people who accept the requirement for boys of 18 to register for the draft (which means, you know, they could be forced to go to war and KILL OR BE KILLED), but get all bunched up about the possibility of their children being tasked by uncle sam to perform community service for a few months. Stupid.