White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter

theodp writes "The official White House Blog called the move WhiteHouse 2.0 as the Obama administration unveiled its membership in a trio of the social-networking leaders: Facebook (157,606 fans and counting), MySpace (174,817 friends and counting) and Twitter (34,612 followers and counting)."

Comments

Yes, but

[WindBourne]

are they taking information and ideas from us? That is, in terms of CITIZENS and not in terms of BUSINESS LOBBYISTS? We suffered through that for 8 long years (actually, more like 30). The WH and Congress NEED to change and start taking ideas that are good for the nation into consideration. None of this "let's give haliburton a contract with no oversight" kind of crap. Heck, I was just reading about a retired officer who figured out that he had been being given an extra .02 / paycheck, and the feds are going to ignore changing the system.

Re:Is it possible to have enemys on facebook?

[ndogg]

My problem is he's playing too much of a moderate. He's not pissing off everyone enough. Of course, Bush did exactly that--pissing off everyone--and I will continue to spite him.

Hmm, it's probably a good thing I'm not president.

It's not that I necessarily agree or disagree with your sentiment, but there really needs to be a "+1 Yet I disagree."

It would make modding so much more fun and interesting.

Re:More communication != more accountability.

[ODiV]

Yeah, that's a really good point.

Look at the whole WMD in Iraq debacle.

Maybe someone with a little more clout than The Daily Show needs to be confronting these guys. Someone who can bring about actual consequences would be a start.

Re:FDR's socialist policies fixed the depression

[spun]

You can't rewrite history. Look the graphs of GDP. Things started to turn as soon as he started his socialist policies, and they kept getting better until he stopped when the Republicans convinced him to. You can't rewrite the raw data, anyone can look at it, I don't even understand what you're trying to do here. WWII solved the depression, what a laugh, look at the numbers. The depression was OVER by 1933, when the GDP started climbing again.

Continued, quarter after quarter growth at pre-depression rates is NOT a depression. Yes, it took until 1937 for the GDP to reach 1929 levels, and then the Republicans convinced FDR to back off of his socialist policies because EVEN THEY admitted the economy had been fixed, and that caused a recession. But reimplementation of some policies put the economy on an incredibly steep rise well before WWII.

It is accurate to say that by the time of Pearl Harbor, socialist policies had brought the country to the point it would have been at had the recession never happened. FDR's policies worked. It is ridiculous to say that government spending on a war solved the problem, but government spending on crucial infrastructure didn't.

The historical record is there for anyone to look at, no matter how you try to rewrite history to suite your world view.

Re:FDR's socialist policies fixed the depression

[spun]

Wrong, look at any graphs of the GDP. By the time of Pearl Harbor, socialist policies had brought the GDP to where it would have been had the recession never even happened. To claim that government spending on a war fixed a problem that government spending on crucial infrastructure couldn't is outside the bounds of sanity. It speaks of a fundamental disconnect in your mind that keeps you from perceiving anything that threatens your world view, and allows you to hold two totally contradictory views at the same time. Fascinating.