Obama and infrastructure-- I think he gets it.

Jan. 20, 2009

"The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together."

So the incoming President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, promised in his inaugural address to the nation.

"The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together."

So the incoming President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, promised in his inaugural address to the nation.

And when we build them, will we build into them the proper amount of security so that what happened in Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Iraq and Venezuela over the past few years will not happen here?

The Obama administration is cyber savvy. They've been told what's needed. Now we need to take the responsibility to continue to coach them and Congress into doing what needs to be done to cyber-secure the critical infrastructure of this nation-- and for that matter the world.

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