Hey, you know how President Obama’s Twitter account is one of the most popular on the site, with 2.7 million followers? And you know how his cybersavvy ways were part of his hopeychangey image during the campaign? And you remember what a big deal it was when he became the first president to use a Blackberry in office?
The president told a youth audience in Shanghai on Sunday that he has never used Twitter…
“I have never used Twitter, but I’m an advocate of technology and not restricting Internet access,” Obama said during the town hall. “My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone.”
Now, this might not be news to you. “Obama has better things to do than twitter or tweeter or whatever the heck you call it. Big deal!” But check this out:
Verified Account. BarackObama. Not ObamaAdministration or AnObamaIntern or anything like that. It’s purporting to come from Obama itself.
And then consider the frequent use of some of his favorite words:
“Me.” “I.” “My.” They sure are trying to make you think it’s really him writing all that, huh?
And as Techcrunch points out:
This is interesting considering the Internet, and social media in particular, was considered a large part of his ascension to the Presidency. Obviously, he had a killer team around him that was able to embrace the web without the then-Senator getting too much involved. Still, it’s somewhat surprising that he never sent any of his own tweets during the primaries. And undoubtedly part of us wants to believe that when you see tweets like “This is history,” which was sent on November 7 — or “Humbled” after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, that it could the President really sending it. Nope.
Well, “Humbled” is more concise than “The boss wants you to think he’s humbled, because what else is he supposed to say about this fiasco?”
Don’t be sad. It’s not the first lie he’s told us. It’s not the worst lie he’s told us. Really, it’s just par for the course. (Speaking of which: Do they have golf courses in China? Sounds like he could’ve used a relaxation break over there! He’s already broken Bush’s record, so why not?) Just a little something to remember the next time somebody wants you to be shocked that Sarah Palin uses a ghostwriter.
By the way, we’re @Deceiver_Blog on Twitter. And we really do write it ourselves!
In other can’t-trust-The-Man news: Woof! Woof!
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Perhaps “Me, Myself and I” is ghostwritten by Michelle.
Now do you really think that he would actually be “twattering”? Like he has time. You know it’s some intern plugging in the information he/she is told.
Thank you for (sort of) reading.
So the twit tweets. Go figure. And he lies. Another shocker. And the stimulus money is funding things other than jobs and our economy. go figure. Next!
Yes I would expect him to be writing it, since oh I don’t know, HE SAID HE DID. Not in so many words, but as he promoted technology during the campaign and started a twitter account in his name, he wanted us to think it was him. It’s disgusting to me that he wanted all of the glory but didn’t do any of the work.
In other shocking news, members of Congress don’t actually write most of the legislation with their name on it, instead relying on staff members to turn their “vision” into reality. However, if you are claiming to be SOOO into technology that secure channels MUST be created so you can use your Blackberry, you can’t then claim to be unable to type things into the phone. Pick a stance and stick to it. And quit the egomania, your tweets (twits is probably more accurate) don’t have to have pronouns everytime!
Also, whether or not you actually type the tweets, if the account is in your name, you’re on Twitter. You use it. Indirectly, maybe, but it counts. Either way, Obama’s full of it. As usual.
Cmon, give the guy a break. Maybe he has an intern running around after him saying “What should I tweet in your name next boss?” and Obama says “Um, I’d like to say, uh, that I, uh, am humbled, uh, by this award, uh, and socialized healthcare, is, uh best, for the uh, country”
So it’s LIKE he’s twitting, but since he has big clumsy fingers he has to dictate them.
on the other hand, he’s still a moron.
Cry me a river, Barry.
I suppose you were injured when your jet fighter crashed in enemy territory. Then sadists in the Viet Kong held you for 5 years in a 4×4 cell where they beat the crap outt’a your thumbs on a daily basis, just for kicks and giggles.
And then, just to frost the cr@p cake, some narcissistic pustule of a manchild runs a national commercial making fun of you for not being able to type on teeny tiny little keys.
Go to hell, dude. Go directly to hell.
…..so how’s all that change working out for you, drooling Obama supporters?
Oh Bill, now those are the kind of skilled public speaking skills that the whole nation was raving about during his campaign! “Uh, um, uh, uh, ahem, um…” Ha!
And seriously, why would anyone even lie about something so pointless? Tweeting or not, who cares? Why lie about it? Oh right, probably because he lies about everything else.
I see this as pretty egregious actually. Of course we know he lies and is clueless and is heading us towards who knows what (I just read a conspiracy piece on the Council on Foreign Relations that has me wondering) If I were a follower I’d be so let down; like finding out Houdini doesn’t do his own tricks.
Since obviously his horrible policies don’t upset his followers maybe this breech of trust would do it…If only the Government Controlled Media would report it. Oh wait! they’re the ones writing the tweets!
Okay, I have a pretty low opinion of Obama and expect him to B.S. us about his policies but I am honestly a little surpised (not totally shocked but…). You can send a tweet in about 20 seconds from your Blackberry and reading the ones you have listed up there, some sound like ones he could have sent. The fact that he has never sent one shows that his all ‘I am totally into technology’ stance is really just another lie.
Twitter is banned/censored in China so it wouldn’t have been any use to him.
Minnow – hearts and hugs to you
John,
My brother in law works at the White House Communications Agency ( has since 1994 ) If the President wanted Twitter on the Space Station in Swahili ( or maybe Kenyan) he’d get it. Most of his followers are in the US so they’d be interested in what he’d have to say from China don’t you think? Especially since the media keeps comparing this trip’s historical importance of Nixon’s.
The President didn’t say “I can’t use it since I am in China” he said “I have never used it”
BIG DIFFERENCE.
Jake Tapper was tweeting from China. People have been tweeting from Iran even during the crackdown. Twitter is hard to stop.
Also, Obama said he’s never used it.
This is not news kids. Most of the celeb twitters/myspace/facebook pages are not actually run by the celeb. Most of the time it’s a PR person or some not paid intern putting the stuff up. I know because at one time I was both. Tis’ the way the industry works. It’s pretty sickening stuff *which is why I got out.*
So, what part of “It’s actually David Plouffe” didn’t anyone understand?
@Oh, Minnow. Will you sit next to me at lunch? And be my lab partner?
He doesn’t work for Obama anymore. And yet “Obama” is still tweeting.
Thanks D— for stating the obvious. No time to tweet? I don’t tweet because it’s stupid . . . and I don’t have any friends. But who DOESN’T have time to peck out 140 characters? You can do that in the loo, if nowhere else!
Twattergate: conspiracy uncovered.
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