(2009-01-10) Changegov People Vs Obama

Since ChangeGov sought input from the citizens of the country, a big number have swarmed to push for prosecution of George W Bush administration people for War Crime-s. This goes to the heart of the contradictions that the Obama people successfully managed to straddle during the campaign, but are (I think) going to have increasing difficulty in dealing with going forward. The Obama people combined very tight top-down message control and campaign coordination with a fair degree of openness at the bottom to independent initiatives by volunteers. As long as everyone agreed on the same underlying goal (beating the Republicans) (Shared Mission), this worked. But as that overwhelming imperative recedes, people are going to start pursuing their own objectives (Coalition) - and the "open" architecture that the Obama people have constructed provides them with plenty of opportunities to do this.