--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First politician in history to personally respond on YouTube to a user > video. > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rj5qsxugIBM
It's interesting. The user video in question was a critique of one of Kucinich's campaign videos on YouTube, one of a series of such critiques of various candidates' videos the guy has posted. Kucinich's response actually incorporated one of the guy's recommendations to Kucinich. Me, I'm ambivalent about campaign videos. They had damn well better give me something that justifies the greater amount of time I'll spend watching the video than I would reading the same words on a Web site or blog, and I haven't really seen any so far that do. It's nice to have a glimpse of the candidate's onscreen personality, but you can get that watching a talk show or even a news program, so it isn't unique to campaign videos. And if the candidate isn't on TV that much, you can get it from the first couple of minutes of a video. What videos are *really* good for is catching the candidates in unguarded moments, like the infamous "macaca" video of George Allen, which may have cost him the election.
