NETIZEN ELECTION AUTOPSY

Barack Obama was elected the next President of the United States. His supporters claim that he is the greatest political candidate. But that broad assessment merely sugar coats the true guts of his victory.

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Obama's campaign turned their web sites into cash machines. There are some critics that complain that a significant portion of Obama's war chest came from illegal contributions (from foreign contributors to stolen credit card numbers). In the final analysis, he will get away with it because the Federal Election Commission refuses to audit the anatomized Obama campaign accounts. Obama's internet untraceable infused cash hoard of hundreds of millions of dollars easily buried John McCain's spending limits.

TWIST THE MESSAGE: Obama used the Internet and television advertising to create a propaganda machine. The liberal bias in the media was suddenly swan songed into aggressive cheerleading for the Obama candidacy. Obama staged a faux populist appeal by filling stadiums with huge crowds which the media failed to fully report were not present to hear Obama, but to attend a free rock concert afterward. Obama controlled the access to his campaign so much that the networks were only left with campaign produced pictures and shots of Obama as a savior in front of huge crowds.

IGNORE THE NET STORIES: There was plenty of negative information on the web about Obama: his past associations with the corrupt Chicago political machine, a convicted political fixer and a former campaign fundraiser Tony Rezko, a shady real estate deal with Rezko, massive earmarks to his wife's university when he became a U.S. Senator, ties to a radical domestic terrorist named William Ayers, a personal resume so full of time gaps and holes that he would not be hired as a Walmart greeter, a mass of inconsistent half-truths and misinformation in his autobiographies, his lack of a voting record, and his lack of experience as a private citizen or legislator. The press decided that Obama was the best chance for the Democrats to win the White House which would cede the Democratic agenda upon the country. The press did not want to know about any skeletons in his closet because the election was no longer about facts or qualifications, but merely about oratory, spin and polling data. Obama's only true qualification to becoming the next president that his handlers found a man who could read a teleprompter well. McCain could not.

CREATE THE BUZZ: The sudden rise of political bloggers pushing the candidate's mantra on Change through the middle class household web surfers cannot be totally ignored. People want “their” candidate to win, whomever that may be at any given moment. When the most important issue in the election was national security and the war on terrorism, McCain was leading Obama. But the pundits turned the issues around toward the economy, and unfairly tied McCain as George W. Bush, Jr., the public was spun the tale that Obama was the only candidate who could fix the economy. This is nonsense, because no one person, including the president, can control a national economy, create new private sector jobs, or make the stock market go up. But a campaign can now create a buzz about the greatness of a candidate without any voter actually knowing what the candidate really stands for; Obama is the perfect empty suit because when reporters asked voters questions about Obama, there were mostly incorrect on what Obama's past position has been on the question. For example, in California, more than 20% of anti-abortion Christians voted for Obama, who is the most liberal, pro-abortion person in the Senate. Obama won 62% of the California popular vote, while another liberal ballot item, gay marriage, was defeated by a 52% margin. This shows the total disconnect within the average American voter when it comes to a candidate's marketability, brand name perceptions, verus voting on a specific issue.

TUBES: In certain respects, SNL skits repeated on YouTube and the comedy faux news shows were more important to a candidate's approval ratings than their actual speeches. In the days before the election, McCain was dramatically cutting Obama's lead. At the end, McCain began to abandon his rubber chicken banquet stump speeches and began to talk in his normal, relaxed manner. His best moment was his humorous press dinner speech in Washington, D.C. But by then, it was too late. The Democrats and Obama had pushed enough early voters to lock in their ballots months before November 4th for Obama to avoid a dramatic last minute swing in the polls.

The Internet provided a new platform for the presidential candidates. It's use as a money raising machine and propaganda tool paid immediate dividends for the Obama team. But those uses are not transparent. More than $250 million in campaign pledges may have been illegal donations. Without full disclosure, one can never really tell who's president Obama will be, the people or the unknown donors. And the wealth of information on the Internet was drowned out by the superficial aspects of the campaign. The marketing of the Obama, the Candidate, was more important than investigative journalism on who he really is a person, a leader or a thinker. Even after the election, the main stream media started to wonder out loud “who did we elect?” Netizens, you really don't know.

 

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WILL HOLIDAY ELECTRONICS SALES DROP? DEBATE

YES. The American credit markets have seized up. There are no two ways around it: the economy is in recession and the news drumbeats more trouble on the horizon. Higher unemployment, more defaults, tighter credit requirements, bankruptcy. The federal government cannot print enough money to unfreeze the problem. The trillions of dollars being hoarded by the financial institutions that created this derivative nuclear wasteland will cause a spike in true costs of basic goods (food, housing, gas, utilities, etc.) because the dollar will be devalued by its uncontrollable government spending. And the only way to halt such spiraling inflation is to tax the people more to get dollars out of circulation. The general public knows when times are going to be tough, the tough cut back in their family foxholes. They cut back on luxury items like entertainment or eating out several times a week. They put off major purchases, cut back on new things like clothes unless they have to be replaced because they cannot be mended. Everyone who has wanted an electronic gadget in the past few years has one: whether it is a personal music player, a laptop, a high speed graphic video game burner. Common sense will have the bread winner of the family choose between spending another $300-$600 on a duplicate piece of home electronics or the family food budget for a month. It is a no-brainer: electronic purchases will go down as the economy goes down.

NO. The pundits have been railing that the economy, like the sky, is falling. The doom and gloom of Wall Street will destroy the little hope and charity of the middle class Main Street. While the politically connected financiers are looting the federal treasury while every domestic American industry is crying like a newborn baby to Congress for some of that sweet, free mother's milk called a bail out, people will continue to spend even beyond their means. For the average person, they were not a part of the subprime nonsense. They are still working, still bringing home at least one paycheck, and they are paying their mortgages on time. Consumers have been trained from birth to be consumers. Credit cards took away the notion of saving your earnings to fuel your purchase desires. A thin piece of plastic swiped through a magnetic reader is the only thing one needs in order to walk out of a store with the latest and greatest status symbol. For a great number of Americans, their perceived status is more important than their personal balance sheet. Leverage is good even though leverage means deep debt. There is no social stigma for being in debt up to your eyeballs in red ink. All you have to do is make the minimum payments to live the high life. And most of America have become expert jugglers of their personal finances while their high paying manufacturing jobs were outsourced overseas. Americans love their techy gadgets. During the beginning of the doomsday reports, Apple, for example, had another record quarter in sales. Consumers will continue to spend this holiday season on flat screen televisions, iPods, and GPS systems. While some segments of the retail world will have a down season, electronics sellers should weather the media storm about the next great depression with solid holiday sales.

 

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HELPLINE TEXTING RESCUE

In two five-star luxury hotels in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, India, the only tool available to trapped hotel guests during the terrorist attacks in late November, 2008 was their smart phones. The power was out; the television would not work; there were men with automatic rifles wandering the halls, pounding on doors, looking for Westerners for hostages.

One American family was trapped in the Taj Hotel. Explosions ripped large fires on several floors, and the Indian army were battling the terrorists floor by floor, room by room in gun battles for control of their country's financial and entertainment center. The family did not know what was happening around them. They barricaded their hotel room door with furniture. Then they contacted the American embassy for help. They texted their location, and the local authorities contacted them by phone with a password. If someone came to the door and gave the correct password, they were instructed to quietly follow them out of the building. True to the plan, this family was rescued as a result of being able to communicate to the outside world in a time when normal communication channels were jammed or inoperable.

We live in a global fishbowl. The cable news stations showed for three days live pictures and sounds of the burning buildings, gun battles and removal under cover of victims of this latest tragedy. A generation ago, this story would have merely been a headline in the local newspaper with one gray and black UPI photograph of a burning hotel. But with instant global communication, these major news events become personal, eyewitness accounts of history.

There was once an account that during the first Iraq war, the Pentagon monitored CNN throughout the operation because the cable giant was giving the world live, continuous feeds from Baghdad, information that US intelligence sources could not easily obtain by their own means. In a highly technically advanced civilization, timely information becomes more important . . . to the point of becoming life or death important.

Teens addicted to their text friends have dislocated their thumbs in wasting hours typing gibberish across the broadband spectrum. Many schools have banned smart phones from students as being the distraction toy. However, there are times when events warrant access to family, friends or the police. Numerous college campus shootings in the past few years have determined the faster the word of violence gets the authorities, the quicker the resolution of the situation. There will always be a debate whether something is a toy that can be a tool or a tool that is used as a toy. There is probably a good side and a bad side of any new product or technology. But as more and more our world begins to spin off its axis of moral balance, people will look to their own protection: their smartphone can be just as valuable as a can of mace or a tazer.

 

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THE WHETHER REPORT STATUS

Question: Whether the Obama administration will lessen Internet freedoms?

* Educated Guess

* Possible

* Probable

* Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

* Doubtful

* Vapor Dream

Question: Whether Congress in the next four years will pass a new National Sales Tax on all Internet transactions?

* Educated Guess

* Possible

* Probable

* Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

* Doubtful

* Vapor Dream

Question: Whether the next North American terrorist attack will involve the disruption of telecommunication systems?

* Educated Guess

* Possible

* Probable

* Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

* Doubtful

* Vapor Dream

 

 

 

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