Seriously?  Because if there’s anything that I’d expect the hidebound, perpetually out of touch, out of date, massive dinosaur-esque disaster that is government bureaucracy to be able to expertly handle, it’s hackers.  So in the future, we can expect that hackers will be as defeated as drugs, poverty and crime.  This is totally going to work, guys.

Good luck with that.  I’d expect nothing less from a man who owns a Zune.

Also, stop using  ”Czars.”  Really.  Czars are dynastic, autocratic rulers who oppress the peasants, steal your vodka and ineffectually fight the Kaiser.  I do not envision a great necessity for these things in our future.

Obama vowed that these efforts “will not include monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic. We will preserve and protect the personal privacy and civil liberties that we cherish as Americans.”

That Is Not Very Reassuring.  

“From now on … the networks and computers we depend on every day will be treated as they should be: as a strategic national asset,” Obama said. “Protecting this infrastructure will be a national security priority.”

Given that the computers that actually are strategic national assets, i.e. the ones in the government and military, better damn well already have a few dudes in charge of keeping them secure, I can only assume he is referring to computers and networks owned by private individuals.  If you have even a fleeting familiarity with the purposes to which most Americans put these Strategic National Assets to use, you can join me in giggling childishly for a minute or two.