new american president, new white house website

Hurrah!  With a new president comes a variety of changes, and with this president in particular, I'm sure we're in for plenty. 

Immediately after inauguration, I noticed the first change relevant to me: the whitehouse.gov website.  In the case that anyone managed to miss it during the entire election cycle, Obama knows how to make good use of technology, and the new white house website is no exception.  Boasting a blog from the white house, a clean design, semantic markup, and efficient css, this white house website is far more advanced and vastly superior to previous versions.  We finally have a white house website that seems to be setting the pace for governmental websites and keeping pace with technology in general. For that I'm excited, and I think the web in general has reason to be excited.

One little note for all those Drupal fans out there is that the whitehouse.gov website now utilizes jquery and the jquery cycle plugin. In my opinion, it's a little nudge reinforcing some of the same decisions made by the Drupal community.  Overall, nice technical advancements from the highest office in the country.  Obama has been pushing the envelope technologically with respect to his counterparts, but I think it bodes well for the entire web industry - yay us! - to have a Commander-in-Chief with an appreciation for well-done web development. 

What do you think? Am I wrapped up in the general excitement of the Obama presidency, or do I have reason to be hopeful?