At Google Obama talks of shared experience (..."belief in changing the world from the bottom up.")

At Google Obama talks of shared experience
By Adam Tanner

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Google employees on Wednesday his meteoric rise in politics mirrored the company's emergence as the lifeblood of the Internet and he surprised his hosts by answering a geeky engineering question.

"There is something improbable about this gathering," the Illinois senator told a packed cafe auditorium of hundreds of Google employees. "What we share is a belief in changing the world from the bottom up."

Obama, 46, noted that a decade ago he was a little-known Illinois state senator and the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, were university students with big dreams. He cited the Google founders' success when asked about his relative lack of political experience.

"I suppose Sergey and Larry did not have a lot of experience starting a Fortune 100 company," said Obama.

Some employees lined up more than an hour to hear Obama while others crowded the rafters above the auditorium.

"There's definitely been a buzz here all day," said Nicole Resz, 26, who works in Google's advertising department. "I've never seen so many people at a Google event. We've had everybody, we've had Mikhail Gorbachev."

"He's fresh, he's new, there's something about him that's Google-like."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071115/pl_nm/usa_politics_obama_dc_1

Which is worrying to me.

Matt Stoller of Open Left, formerly of MyDD and previously not an Obama fan, has this to say:

'Both Edwards and Obama have made it clear they will break the power of the wireless gatekeepers, the telecom
lobbyists who gut our laws, and the Comcast traffic shaping tyrants. Clinton, though, has been a noted absence
in the debate about spectrum, mumbling about it incoherently at Yearlykos, and her plan for broadband was
written by the telcos and doesn't include net neutrality. She still hasn't come out clearly on retroactive immunity,
as her campaign's ties to telecom lobbyists are not trivial, and it looks from her possible FCC choices that her
administration would be a continuation of the Clinton-Bush years of media and telecom deregulation.

But don't take my word for it, take the word of Scott Cleland, the most notorious telecom shill, as he writes about
Clinton's 'innovation agenda':

Understandably, the glaring exclusion of net neutrality from the Senator's Innovation agenda -- after the radical
left's rhetoric claimed net neutrality was essential to "innovation" -- signals to me that the Senator and her
campaign have a pretty solid, practical and intuitive understanding of sound broadband policy.

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In the face of this set of challenges, Obama has thrown down a big gauntlet, policy-wise. He is pushing to break
up the wireless gatekeepers, net neutrality will be a strong priority in his administration, and open government
will allow citizens to generate new sources of political power.'

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=ED6B4B364E8EFC26DFC0B3410C449523?diaryId=2369

but a smear is a smear , right?

you don't know corporate America.

He wants do do so many things with technology to make government more transparent.