14 DAY TRIAL // What do all the politicians do? Get it together, poll it amidst themselves and, after that, come up with the only possible answer. Yes, they misinform to say it in a polite manner. The real message is usually lost somewhere between the few ideas that the candidate really stands by and the rest of the yada - yada that the team surrounding him gives him to learn as a speech addressing the people. The truth and the facts are like all the legal documents in the US: lost in the bureaucracy.
Would a government blogging team do something when it comes to that, or is this yet another attempt from a politician to attract the youth to his side, by mentioning openness and the Internet as interconnected items? "We should even have a government blogging team where people in the agencies are constantly telling all of you, the taxpayers, the citizens of America, everything that's going on so that you have up-to-the-minute information about what your government is doing, so that you too can be informed, and hold the government accountable", Hilary Clinton said.
The idea that the Internet will be decisive for the final results has been going around for the last two, perhaps three, elections and the best example of failure, when having this principle at heart, is Howard Dean, who raised a lot of money using the Internet for his campaign, but that's about it.
Furthermore, this is a phrase that looks like it's borrowed from Barack Obama's agenda, despite Clinton's known openness when it comes to this matter. "I want to put everything on the Internet! I want you to see the budget of every agency. I want you to track everything that goes on in your government -- you pay for it, you should know about it!", she said late on Monday night.
This is rather funny, really, as she has been known to diss the Facebook users, but after the Iowa results, she just added a new feature on her campaign site to allow FB users to ask her questions. Eh, what wouldn't a politician do for votes?