Micah Sifry, cofounder of the Personal Democracy Forum (whose conference I recently attended in Barcelona), and editor of Tech President, ran into White House senior adviser David Axelrod on the shuttle yesterday from NYC to DC. God bless Micah. He did what far too many members of Congress and advocacy groups wouldn't dare.
It's not every morning that you run into one of the most powerful men in the country in relatively intimate and unguarded surroundings, so today as I was boarding the shuttle down to DC and saw White House senior advisor David Axelrod seated by a window just behind the first class section, I decided I had to seize the moment. My parents gave me "change the world" disease when I was young, after all, and I probably will never shake it.Micah continues. Read the post. We need more of this.
The aisle was full in front of me anyway and thus I was literally standing across from him. Knowing I might only have a minute, I quickly pondered what to say.
"Is this 'change we can believe in'?" I asked. He didn't respond at first so I repeated the question to make clear I was talking to him. It was his slogan, after all, that he and the rest of the Obama '08 campaign, had offered to the nation...
