Last November, the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gave VentureBeat an exclusive look at his technology plan.

“The full plan… contains several new proposals, including the appointment of technology czar called a Chief Technology Officer,” Matt Marshall reported for VentureBeat. “The CTO’s mandate would be quite different from the Cybersecurity czar appointed under the Bush Administration. Bush’s czar helped defend against cyberattacks. Obama’s CTO, by contrast, would ensure government officials hold open meetings, broadcast live webcasts of those meetings, and use blogging software, wikis and open comments to communicate policies with Americans, according to the plan.”

The details of the plan are here.

Today, Rob Enderle writes for TechNewsWorld, “I am breathing a long sigh of relief this week now that the election is over and it appears, for once, the most qualified candidate actually got the job. This seems to rarely happen, and my only remaining hope is Apple gets a clue from McCain’s loss and switches off the negative advertising and instead works on improving its own products.”

MacDailyNews Take: Apple is gaining share; taking it from Windows PCs and Enderle wants them to stop the campaign that is helping to fuel Mac market share gains. WhIle improvement is always welcome, Apple’s Macs are markedly superior to Windows PCs already. Apple’s ads are only negative if you’ve never used a Mac. Otherwise, they’re obviously based upon truths that users who know both platforms easily understand and recognize.

Enderle continues, “Speaking of improvement, one of the things on our new president’s to-do list is getting the U.S.’s first CTO, or chief technology officer… I ended up with four potential candidates: Al Gore, Lawrence Lessig, Vin Cerf, and Shane Robison.”

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: At least he didn’t say “Bill Gates” or “Steve Ballmer.” Miracles do happen. Who do you think Obama should name as U.S. CTO, if anybody?

[4:45pm ET: Removed portion of Take and associated comments as a common definition could not be agreed upon and it distracted from the topic at hand. In a nutshell, it depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. wink]