Twitter Town Hall: Rambling Obama only answers 3 tweets, frustrates the hell out of everyone else
By ONANTZIN News
2011-07-06
Washington, DC -- President Obama received thousands of questions via Twitter this afternoon in his latest technique to get his message to the public. In theory, it was a good idea: answer questions in real-time from users on Twitter. But in practice, it turned out to be worse than Aunt Jemima's idea to sell manteca to Hispanics.
Out of the thousands of questions submitted with the hashtag #AskObama, the loquacious president answered a measly three of them, while the rest were left to wander aimlessly in cyberspace.
This complete waste of time by the president generated anger from the Twitter community, whose crisp and succinct members - having successfully condensed the Bible into less than 140 characters last month - could teach him a thing or two about brevity. "this is one long-winded sucka!", twitted @socalthis, who also tweeted a minute later, "I could have tweeted all his answers in less than 100 characters. What a waste of time this was".
To make matters worse, the three questions President Obama answered were on subjects that he's discussed to death this year: the debt ceiling, defense spending, and John Boehnor's hypocrisy. There were other (more interesting) questions out there that he could have answered, such as "If you want chicken wings at 3 am, are you allowed to send Secret Service to go get them?" from @holytaco, Or "Do you like Mexican wrestling? If so, who's better: Blue Demon or Santos?" from @Hispanikus.
The answers to the above questions - as long as he kept them short - would have provided a much needed breath of fresh air, given that everyone is already familiar with Obama's predictable answers to the textbook questions that were chosen.
In response to the criticism, Obama's staff released a statement saying that for next year's Tweeter town hall meeting, the president would most likey do the exact same thing. "What do you people expect? The president has a speech impediment that prevents him from keeping his answers brief. We thought you people knew this by now", said a member of his staff, who wished to remain anonymous.