The best thing about John Edwards is that he has a sense of humor. It was a real pleasure at Gnomedex to watch him deal with a situation unlike any press event he’d been trained for. I hope he keeps working on his authenticity skills.
Of course the most interesting question was one he didn’t even try to answer. When first asked how he thinks about dealing with an internet reality that isn’t geographically dependent, he offered an easy answer about rallying people to push out from their online communities into their geographic communities. And that’s part of the answer, but it’s a top down patronizing kind of answer.
He responded with a much more sincere “I don’t have an answer” when he was asked about the fact that online communities don’t constitute a single voting block. If substantial numbers of people feel strongly about an issue, but are disenfranchised because they can’t flex their muscles as well as their voices, then that’s a big constitutional issue.
Since my congressman’s got a safe seat, rather than donate to the party this year I think I’ll take the money over to AdBrite and see what I can buy to target Brownback’s constituency in Kansas.
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