The new presidential candidates
John Kerry announced his bid for presidency on YouTube. Wow. This just gives a nice slice of the Internet impact on life.
A little less than 100 years ago we had a president that was in a wheelchair. Later it was said that he wouldn’t be president today because the American people wouldn’t like seeing someone in a wheelchair and wouldn’t vote for them. It seemed becoming president had as much to do with how you looked and talked on TV as it did for your views and if you would actually be good.
That has now expanded to the Internet. John Kerry is using the site YouTube to give his announcement and is putting videos on his own site. So now you can go on the web at anytime and see the candidates. Just another indication of the pervasiveness of the web in recent times.