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@Whitehouse Hosting Twitter Town Hall On Wednesday
CWmike writes "In another milestone, the White House will hold its first Twitter town hall forum on Wednesday. President Barack Obama, known for using technology and Web 2.0 tools since his presidential campaign, will answer Twitter users' questions (submit them here) in a live webcast about the U.S. economy and jobs at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday. Twitter co-founder and Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey will moderate a conversation between Obama and Twitterers across the country. Twitter users can submit questions using the hashtag #AskObama. Some questions will be taken up in advance and others will be grabbed real-time during the event, Twitter said. In a blog post, Twitter executives said a conversation about the U.S. economy will fit right in with regular Twitter activity."
Unfortunately, when the entire opposition party has made their one and only goal your destruction, you can't really do anything about it. They're willing to push the country into default for the first time in history, destroying the lives of millions. You can't negotiate with that sort of hatred.
Obama's not a dictator. He can't "get some real fucking work done" all on his own. The only way this country can get on track is for the Republicans to come to their senses, or for every last one of them to be given the boot. If Obama get's re-elected, maybe the Republicans can finally set aside their hate and work with the guy.
Because the first black president wants to be known as the guy who legalized pot?
If he wants any real respect, then yes. Politicians worthy of real respect can admit when something has failed and are willing to stop doing that failed thing and start doing something else.
I don't really see what his race has to do with it. It doesn't change the fact that marijuana prohibition was a bad idea.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
The BBC uses Twitter during its Question Time programme that gets a few million viewers. There are usually several tweets per second, far too fast for anyone to read or respond to. People resort to re-tweeting the same thing over and over again just to be heard.
In a room full of journalists they have to pick one to ask questions and have everyone else shut up. Try doing that on Twitter.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
They knew this trick back in the time of the Roman Empire.
Bread and Circuses: bribe the population with free bread and distract them with circuses whilst the ruling classes do whatever they want.
In this case Obama is seeking to distract the US from the fact he's renaged on all of his campaign promises, Gitmo is still open for business, the PATRIOT act was renewed (dishonestly snuck through Congress by a Democrat) and the US will be defaulting on it's debts any time now (whilst members of congress invest in funds that will make money when the US goes bust).
But never mind all of that: Obama is a Twit now!
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
I'm not a Republican, I'm not even an American.
In Europe our main stream political parties are all more left-leaning than either of the US parties. In essence the US has two right-wing parties who are, in all the important ways, indistinguishable to anyone outside of the US.
As far as I can tell the only difference between the Democrats and Republicans is that the latter includes witches. ;)
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.