Howard Dean Mother Jones Interview

Excerpt:
"Mother Jones: How tech savvy were you personally before your 2004 campaign?

Howard Dean: Not very. I measure myself against a 25-year-old, and I don't think I'm very tech savvy.

MJ: What convinced you, then, to embrace the Internet to such a large degree?

HD: The Internet embraced us. The truth is that we started out with no money, essentially, and what we had was a very powerful message, which was interestingly not just about the war; it was about empowering ordinary Americans. The first thing I learned was that the Internet is a community, not simply just a tool. It's a community, and they embraced us. They organized these things called "meet ups" all over the country, and they did it completely outside the campaign, and we eventually linked up with them. This was really a grassroots journey.

MJ: Do you think the use of technology has been exaggerated as a factor in your campaign?

HD: Absolutely not. The Internet is the most important tool for redemocratizing the world since Gutenberg invented the printing press. There's no way you could exaggerate the importance of the Internet, in terms of its ability to prevent the few people who seek to seize power and control everything from doing so."

http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2007/07/howard_dean.html

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