State of the Union Address Goes Web 2.0

CWmike writes "The White House will be tapping Web 2.0 technology to reach out to Americans during and after the president's State of the Union address tonight. While President Barack Obama makes his annual address starting at 9 p.m. ET, the official White House Web site will have a live stream of the speech, along with charts and statistics to provide context and emphasize key points. 'We're putting the finishing touches on a new feature for WhiteHouse.gov that will offer an enhanced viewer experience for President Obama's State of the Union address,' wrote Macon Phillips, the White House director of new media, in a blog post. Immediately after the State of the Union address, the White House will host an Open for Questions event on Twitter. Several senior administration officials will be fielding questions submitted on the White House Facebook page, the White House Webform, or via Twitter using the #sotu hashtag and responding to @whitehouse. And on Wednesday, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will take citizens' questions via Twitter before his post-State of the Union briefing. Anyone interested can follow @PressSec on Twitter to find out when Gibbs will take questions and post video responses. To submit a question for him, respond to @PressSec using the hashtag #1Q. At 2:30 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, Obama will take questions live on YouTube."

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Mexican citizen, paid US taxes for twenty years

[h00manist]

Finally I got sick of paying US taxes and having no US rights so I left, and am again a Mexican citizen in Mexico, as well as still a "citizen" of the Web. Can I participate in #sotu and post comments too?

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[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

That is what I find most baffling about the Obama presidency: The Democrats elected a republican, one who seems to have undergone something of a spinectomy at that, and the republicans are still convinced that the Democrats managed to elect a firebreathing radical socialist muslim who will be redistributing their white women at any moment now.

I just don't understand it. Is his being of the melanized persuasion really that much of a hang-up, or (more alarming) do they think that he is a radical socialist because the republican platform has continued drifting right until it settled on "Hire Haliburton to build a skull pyramid of our enemies that shall reach the heavens, in jesus' name!"

Re:Early Copy

[spun]

I actually thought the teabaggers were going to compromise

And I never thought liberals would stop referring to libertarians and conservatives using sexual slang, and instead debate based on ideas.

Looks like I was right. I wonder what else all of the Tea Party members have been right about while you've been mocking them?

Nothing. The Tea Party has been right about absolutely nothing. They are crazy. They do not deserve respect, or a place at the civilized people's table. Nobody wants to debate crazy, it isn't a debate, it is just crazy yelling DIE! DIE! DIE! at you. Seriously, what is there to debate? You make it sound as though the Tea Party has been espousing sensible positions, hell, they haven't been espousing positions at all. The only thing I hear from the Tea Party is an unintelligible scream of rage. The only position they hold true to is a position of unrelenting fear and hatred of the undeserving "other" who is bent on destroying America. The Tea Party thinks that I and everyone like me is a terrorist bent on destroying America. How can you have a debate with that? You can't.