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I’ve had a political dream for a while now that I think all of us WoW players can agree on: someday, I hope, we will have a President in the White House that plays videogames. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re closer — apparently, Obama’s FCC transition co-chair is a WoW player, and has played in two different endgame guilds, including Joi Ito’s famous We Know guild. that is a guy who knows all about the communities that these MMOs create, and just how awesome it is to run through Karazhan, or grind PvP for a Merciless Gladiator weapon… and he’s been selected by the incoming President of the United States to run the FCC. That’s beautiful.

Too many government officials (both Democrat and Republican, that isn’t partisan at all) suffer from the “series of tubes” mentality – they are being asked to regulate and coordinate things that they don’t understand at all. But getting guys like Kevin Werbach in there, no matter what your political affiliation, is a great step forward for all of us gamers — we’ll have humans behind the regulatory wheel who know how crucial and wonderful virtual worlds like Azeroth can be.

Waltermonkey on Livejournal actually uncovered the guy’s Armory profile (and has some great insight), and yes, though I’m certain some of the comments below will be about how you’d never be able to run a transition team AND get to level 80 at the same day, Werbach’s been playing recently — while he’s still only level 70, he’s actually got the Jenkins title. We’ve got a Resto Shaman helping run the FCC — how awesome is that?

Obama’s FCC transition co-chair is a WoW player originally presented on WoW Insider on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Mike Schramm