This just came into my twitter home page:
BarackObama Tomorrow will mark a year since our historic victory. Do you have a favorite 2008 Election Day memory? Share your stories via #Nov4 21 minutes ago from web .
I “friended” the President to keep up on what he or his staff feels to be important. Frankly, I thought it might be a great way for the new administration to send out succinct (perhaps that’s the problem) messages to the electorate on what they might want us to know. As it turns out all it’s used for is campaign stuff, support specific legislative items, send letters, stuff like that. Still, perhaps that’s ok, who knows the proper use of twitter in a standing administration; it’s a question that very likely never came up before. Just maybe this makes as good sense as any other use of twitter; then there was this post by the Obama staff.
I’m struggling with this. Of all that is going on, just why is it of interest to anyone to take a little trip down memory lane and share favorite story of a “historic” election? Surely he could have easily said: “It’s been a year folks, how am I doing”? Or perhaps something more contrite like: “Gees, who knew. Now they want results?” So ask yourself this, if you could send a statement to over 2.5 million people, what would you say. Could you in your wildest imagination ask people to share their memories of you?
This is nothing less than inward focusing narcicism, straight up; as sad as it is tragic.
