The Washington Post has the details on our new, joint blog: Barack Obama has called on Democratic chieftan Howard Dean to require that debate video be opened up for us, the people.

In a letter sent to DNC chairman Howard Dean earlier today, Obama suggests debate video should be placed in the public domain, or licensed under a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. Such licenses allow authors, musicians, producers, scientists, etc. to pick and choose the copyright freedoms to apply to their work.

“As you know, the Internet has enabled an extraordinary range of citizens to participate in the political dialogue around this election. Much of that participation will take the form of citizen generated content,” Obama’s letter states. “We, as a Party, should do everything that we can to encourage this participation.”

I suggest he also send it directly to the networks. Tonight’s GOP debate on MSNBC is still a closed, controlled, old-TV affair.

: Here’s USA Today’s coverage.