You’ve got to love speculative stories, and conspiracy theories about a president who technically isn’t a president yet. The conspiracy theories I mentioned in the second link aren’t from the article itself but the responses to it.

The story is that Obama or whoever is in change of his website has made drastic cuts to the agenda section of his transition website. What was once a page with varying policies about what Obama wants to get done in office, is now a vague statement. The news itself isn’t what I question, but the reactions to it. From what you hear from Obama detractors and supporters, you’d figured he was the devil, or a saint. Of course it shouldn’t be a surprise considering how the election went.

What really concerns me is the scrutiny that Obama is going to face during his term. He isn’t in charge of anything yet, and there’s already people out to get him. I haven’t lived through a whole lot of presidential terms, but I never saw anything along the likes of this with President Bush. Sure he was put under a microscope, but it was during his presidency, not directly before it. With a growing media, and information flying at the speed of light this might be Obama’s first big challenge. Forget the economy, Iraq, and energy. He’s going to need to make sure he’s one step ahead of the people reporting him. Which of course is a daunting, maybe impossible task.

I reported about Obama’s tech policy a few days ago. In the policy he mentions about making the government more accessible to the people. Creating a website with direct access to goings-ons of the government, which looking at how the news is flying around about him might not be a bad idea. When I first read it, I didn’t buy much into it because it just seemed like how most politicians talk about transparent government only with a Web 2.0 twist. After keeping an eye on the media this past week, that lofty goal might actually work to his favor.

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