Thoughts on the Election
Dec 14th, 2008 by brianschettler
I know I’m late, but here’s some thoughts. I’m generally optimistic about Barack Obama. Two big reasons:
- He is a much better role model to young minorities than rappers and athletes.
- He understands technology and I think that’s good. There’s a lot of potential to use technology to improve government and I hope we see progress in this area. Also for policies like net neutrality.
I was generally optimistic until I saw that Obama was bringing on lots of old Clinton people. I am trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. One way I’ve heard it explained is that as someone who is inexperienced, he needs to be surrounded by people who know how to use the system, and hopefully he will ditch them after two years or so. Otherwise this wasn’t so much the “change” that was promised. I definitely think having Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State is a big mistake, because I don’t think she is capable of allegiance to anyone except herself. If a situation arises where it’s either her or Obama, she will put herself first.