Ever since the Democracy Video Challenge announced this year’s winners, online buzz about the contest has continued to grow. There was Newsweek’s Generation O blog post, which commented on the different styles of the winning videos, the My Republica story about Nepalese winner Tsering Choden, and the Associated Foreign Press piece that provided a helpful overview of the contest.
In addition to all that, YouTube featured the Democracy Video Challenge on its homepage. Here on By the People we had a guest post from Zambia that cheered the country’s hometown winter, Chansa Tembo.
Some of my favorite buzz has come from the Democracy Video Challenge’s YouTube page. Comments on winning videos and the montage video that highlights all 18 finalists have been exciting to read. Here’s a sampling of what people are saying:
TheGranule says: Read the Federalists Papers and the US constitution, also de Toqueville. All the great arguments for the various types of democracy are explored by great minds.
murkmumba says: we need democracy
ackbarkazar says: i really cant stand democracy i takes way too long to get anything across let alone done…
strongmad86 says: my democracy doesn’t let me do alot of things i want to do
asthenia166 says: we people as a whole, every one of us needs to stand together, and take the power back.
kronoff317 says: Democracy is where 51% can enslave 49% of the other people.
And lastly,
kangurupt says: democracy is a bless for all human beings!
You can watch the videos, read more comments, and add your own thoughts on the Democracy Video Challenge YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/DemocracyChallenge
After practicing law for a number of years, Michael Jay Friedman returned to school and earned a doctorate in U.S. political and diplomatic history. 
Michelle Austein Brooks is a U.S. government and politics writer who has covered three national elections for America.gov. 
Peggy B. Hu defied Asian-American stereotypes in college by studying comparative literature and international relations rather than math and science. 
Stephen Kaufman is an experienced writer who has covered the White House and the State Department, and continues to report on international and democracy issues, including press freedom. 
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Comments (4)
harish shrestha
Location: nepal
July 9, 2009 at 07:53 EDT
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what democracy is learn from th current nepali leadership. all election defeated ones are the ministers. abraham lincoln would have fainted had he been alive. whay a mockery of the word democracy. the US ambassador supported the defated ones to be in power. US is also expose. Listen Obama!
thanks
narendra prasad upadhyaya
Location: nepal
July 22, 2009 at 06:35 EDT
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democracy has been disfigured and deformed in my country, nepal. all the election defeated ones are governing the nation which people don’t like. had abraham lincoln been alive, he would have cried Jesus Christ.
avtoooo
Location: Россия
September 14, 2009 at 21:29 EDT
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“Очень познавательно. Спасибо.”
Barbara53
October 22, 2009 at 11:40 EDT
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