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New websites suggest agenda, cabinet for next US president
AFP - Thursday, October 30
WASHINGTON (AFP) - - The US presidential election is still a few days away but websites are popping up where users can suggest an agenda for the next president or even help shape his cabinet.
At whitehouse2.org, a website launched this week by activist and film-maker Jim Gilliam, users are invited to suggest a priority for the next president's first 100 days in office.
"Stop the Iraq war" was number one at mid-day on Wednesday with 105 votes followed by "Enact universal, single-payer healthcare" with 92 endorsements.
"Prosecute George W. Bush for his crimes against humanity," came in as priority number three with 86 votes, perhaps revealing the political leanings of many of the 222 users who had registered on the site.
"The more people who join, the more we represent all of America," Gilliam said in a video posted on YouTube explaining his initiative. "With enough people we will set the national agenda."
Another site, BigDialog.org, a project of the Massachusetts-based eCitizen Foundation, gives users the opportunity to ask the president-elect a question by video or in writing.
Users vote on the questions they would most like the next president to answer.
"It puts you, the public, in charge of identifying issues, framing the questions and then deciding which questions bubble up to the top," eCitizen Foundation's Ray Campbell said in a YouTube video on the site.
The foundation said it will deliver the top most popular questions to the next president-elect's transition team and post any replies on the site.
There's also opencabinet.org, a wiki project which describes itself as a "collaborative effort to map out the next president's administration."
"Let's figure out who might -- and who should -- staff the executive agencies," it says, in an exercise it called "crowdsourcing the cabinet."
Micah Sifry, whose blog about politics and the web, techpresident.com, first reported about the various sites, said he expects more like them in the days leading up to the November 4 election between Barack Obama and John McCain.
"I'm sure there will be others," Sifry told AFP. "It's sort of a natural thing. You have all of these people involved in the election now -- not just as subjects of the election -- but also participating.
"Surely a lot of them will want to influence the next president too."
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