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Obama Effect * A New Era *

Comentarios del artículo By: Elisenda Chains Acuña ( ecadenas ) ⋅ January 20, 2009 ⋅ Comments Article

Today we are living history, performed the ceremony of inauguration of the new government of the 44th. President of the United States of America, the first color in the history of a country where only a few decades ago blacks were racially segregated by law.

Obama, who in his campaign slogan idea preached the change we can believe, received a position with the most challenging junctures in modern history of the United States: first the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1929 and war with two fronts. Fortunately, two thirds of the U.S. population expressed optimism that Barack Obama can perform the job nicely.

Barack Obama to understand new technologies and uses them daily so that their technology priorities in the new government raised the following points:

• E ducation. - To provide resources for research and education at colleges and universities, and recruit new â € Oeun € profesoresâ army and give them the technological resources.
• Broadband. - With priority on rural areas, optimization of the RF spectrum and tax-based incentives and state aid to unprofitable sites bring broadband.
• Ensure the free exchange of ideas over the Internet. - Obama believes in a free and open Internet, guaranteeing the free exchange of ideas while providing safeguards for the protection of minors, diversique communication channels, and preserve privacy of individuals.
• Governance., As priorities will have administrative accountability to citizens and promote communication and access of citizens in a comfortable, secure direct and particular governments.
• Science and technology to solve national problems. - Application of new technologies intensively the health sector, biomedical, energy and education in particular, in order to ensure American hegemony globally in these sectors.

Obama campaigns were set up networks of users on different platforms like Facebook, myspace, flickr, twitter, linkedin, etc. To these must be increased by the specific networks of the Latino community, BlackPlanet composed of the African American community, faithbase for Christian religious communities or AsianAve for Asian users, etc.. As an example of viral marketing, the organization sent a sympathetic Democrat www.moveon.org propaganda video by email that had 10 million references. But the biggest success of the Obama campaign website was using youtube, the video of Will.i.am Yes We Can

Support the artists, especially those of color, were also decisive in attracting the vote. People like Beyonce, Bob Dylan, Jay Z, Scarlett Johansson, Madonna, REM, Alejandro Sanz, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young have been ambassadors for Obama. Additionally also planned advertising campaigns of Obama in Google's Adsense and Yahoo Searchs ads.

Team Obama:

JOE BIDEN , VICE PRESIDENT
This Delaware lawyer takes more than half of his life in the Senate, and in a way, it will be for Obama what Cheney for Bush: an old shark that will help pull the strings of Congress, only much more direct and liberal.

HILLARY CLINTON , SECRETARY OF STATE
With ambition and determination to break the limits imposed on women, and although not the first U.S. president will be a key voice in the new government of the country as secretary of state. www.state.gov

TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER , SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
The current president of the Federal Reserve of New York, will offer a fresh and rejuvenating tone for the post and will face the financial becomings that remain llegar. www.treasury.gov

ROBERT GATES , SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
The politician, who has worked for six different presidents, abides by the mission of channeling before the war in Afghanistan and to prepare military presence in Iraq in front of the Pentagon. www.defenselink.mil

ERIC HOLDER , ATTORNEY GENERAL
Respected veteran of politics and the courts, he worked for many years as a federal prosecutor, a task in which he built a reputation as an enemy of corruption in public. www.usdoj.gov

KEN SALAZAR , SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
United States Senator,  acts on the Finance Committee, which oversees the nation's tax, trade, social security and health systems. He also served on the Agriculture, Energy and Natural Resources, à ‰ policy, Veterans Affairs, Aging and comités. www.doi.gov

JANET NAPOLITANO , SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Considered one of the most important women in the U.S. before taking office as governor of Arizona had already made ​​history in 1998 to become the first attorney general estado. www.dhs.gov

ERIC K. Shinseki, SECRETARY FOR VETERANS AFFAIRS
The former head of the U.S. Army, which was removed from office by their disagreement over the invasion of Iraq, will be charged in the Obama administration to ensure the care of 23.4 million veterans who are in the país. www.va.gov

TOM Daschle , SECRETARY OF HEALTH PÚBLICA
Former senator heads the working group on reform of Public Health within the transition team. To this end they have meetings around the country to identify what citizens consider the most common system problems actual.  www.hhs.gov

SHAUN DONOVAN, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
This is a subject matter expert, who was in charge of the portfolio of mortgages for low-income people in the finance company Prudential Mortgage Capital Company. Previously, he worked on the investigation of federal housing programs at the universities of New York and Harvard. www.hud.gov

Barack Obama inauguration in January 2009

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