Barack Obama's tech policies are balanced and smart and show a deep understanding of how innovation happens on the Internet. - Inspired by Lawrence Lessig

Backstory: This idea comes from Kermit Pattison's interview with Stanford professor, Lawrence Lessig. Lessig's support for Obama is heavily based on a belief that his tech policies are the strongest of those held by the three candidates. http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/03/interview-lessig.html

When compared to his candidates, Obama has the best understanding of how to use technology, particularly the internet, for developing grassroots across the nation, for both voters and funding. Not to mention he switched from a Blackberry to an iPhone.

In a recent blog posting (http://www.fastcompany.com/user/117102), I touched on some of the ways Barack Obama is getting involved with the web, specifically with online advertising. He has spent the most money online of any of the candidates, and according to Read Write Web (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/oh_boy_obama_user_generated_think_t...), Obama has started Oh Boy Obama, an interactive think tank--with the ideas and suggestions generated by supporters themselves. Besides being smart, this is just good business.

So why do I STILL not trust him any more than I trust any of the other candidates? Aside from he's an elitist and my gut response is, he's just a tad too slick.. No, I don't prefer Hillary. And I never could get warm and fuzzy over McCain - much less so since he made that idiotic statement about women not needing Affirmative Action, just needing more training.. Do his mother and his wife know he said that, I wonder?? Jeeeeh! He's a big step up from "dubyah", but nowhere near big enough. Unless someone can come up with a Real Reason to vote for any of these people, I still plan to write in a vote - "Give us a REAL choice for a change!" And with luck, it will be someone we can believe. In. Maybe both.

I think the idea of having some experts in Social Media and Networking on his campaign team paid off. He took the risk to expose all of his strategy and proposals online in order for everyone in the internet to participate in the debate. He and his team have proved that you can leverage internet technologies even in unexplored scenarios.

Not to be argumentative, but what does using the internet and social media (Rachel King's earlier feedback) for a political campaign have to do with tech policies? I would imagine his tech policies are the strongest of the three candidates, but I'd have to dig into the backstory (hanks for posting that).

Obama's staff is savvy in the field of online political marketing. Other candidates have held to past and perhaps archaic philosophies regarding internet ads, newsletters, etc.. And yes, cleverly, a user generated link to Obama's idea "think-tank" has arrived, where you may add your own input: http://www.ohboyobama.com/ My Online Experience with Clinton/McCain/Obama: http://www.basilandspice.com/journal/whos-winning-the-race-online.html

Obama is the first candidate in years to embrace the very technology most of us lament! He is a quick study and ready to move before most candidates have had the chance to "think" about it. I would attribute this to his years as an academic and the fact that he is an innovator himself. Obama is hard-wired for success and all the bad-mouthing in the world just rolls off his back. He may be one of the first candidates to seriously engage the tech-bound community within the common (ground) framework so many of us use. Like so many brilliant young leaders, Obama's real gift of leadership is that he is willing to lead where others are afraid to set foot. He may fail in this attempt to take the White House (paradoxical, don't you think?), but he will do so unlike any other candidate in history by being the one willing to take a chance on America and our love for all things new.

it is simple Jay John McCain is still looking for the any key

What are Obama's tech policies? I can get change at the corner store. Where does he stand on policies that affect the internet? Policies that limit the exporting of technology to not so friendly nations? Policies that protect US patens & copyrights?