Remember how I worried that in order to lead today you should really be able to embrace technology?  I also worried that the old guy was actually a clue-less dinosaur?  Anyway, it seems that my worry was needless, since McCain really should have given that old Internet thing a closer look.

There is a lot of proof that Obama’s use of the Internet has not only been a crucial piece of his victory, but has forever changed American politics.  Didn’t hurt that he recruited one of the co-founders of Facebook to help, I suppose.

It’s going to be fun and awesome and probably very rocky for a while until everybody figures this stuff out.

“There will be a lot of collateral damage coming to grips with the fact that we’re in a reality TV series, ‘Politics 24/7,’” Mr. Newsom said.

That’s a good thing, Mr. Trippi said. “This medium demands authenticity, and television for the most part demanded fake. Authenticity is something politicians haven’t been used to.”

Even something as simple as a weekly radio address is (somehow just now) being taped for YouTube and Internet consumption.  Brilliant.  If he can really pull off this kind of connectedness and grass-roots organization it just might be the start of something better than I expected.

Now we just need to get Stephen Harper to wake up and smell the coffee.