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If you are ten years old...
...you believe that Obama read some blogs and suddenly changed his mind. How dumb can you get? At the most -- the very most -- he released his policy earlier than intended. To believe he fashioned a policy after a few days/weeks of blog outcry is nuts, and even an insult to the man. What next...blogs will demand big cars will be banned and he'll go for that, too?
Would also know that Obama has many people working for him, many of whom do read blogs and feed information about what they write up the chain of command at Obama HQ. In fact actual bloggers have even worked for Obama (like Mike Lux at Open Left).
Blogs collectively have several million regular readers and contribute millions of dollars to political campaigns, the childish belief is in fact to pretend no one cares what they say or that they have no influence.
Do you think people like Pelosi, and Obama himself attended Netroots Nation for nothing?
