You know, I am not really a fan of Twitter.  I have described it in the past as electronic graffiti.  You go into cyberspace, and scrawl a few words of drivel.  Even so, I have been told that if I opened a twitter account for The Stupid Nation blog, I will probably raise my humble hit count quite a bit.  I duly note this, but still, I am more than somewhat reluctant to add my distinctiveness to the collective here.  At some point, I will likely relent and join the mindless masses tweeting away.  Still, a can a spray paint and a concrete wall seems more......organic.

Meantime.......

Obama hosts his first official tweet session with the unclean mob.  He is obviously going after a demographic that his pollsters tell him he needs in order to get re-elected.  What better way to pursue the mindless masses than with mindless drivel?  What profound thinking can be conveyed in 140 characters?  Perhaps not too far off in the future some enterprising soul will compile a list of profound sayings crafted in 140 characters or less, and win a Pulitzer Prize.  So, critics of this e-town-hall tweet-fest say - what meaningful exchange can be had in this type of forum?  The answer is: none, and that is precisely the point.  Obama can't afford meaningful exchanges, so Twitter is the perfect forum for him.  Remember one of the few substantive exchanges with an unclean member of society back during the campaign?  Plumber Joe got his 15 minutes of fame, as Obama struggled to answer a basic question, just as he continues to struggle to answer basic questions.

Of course, it is easier to get a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than to get a politician to keep an answer to 140 characters.  No doubt that alone will be high entertainment.

So, while twitter-able answers to simple questions are meaningless, here are a few of those simple questions I could get off, if I did tweet, and managed to get past the liberal media guard dogs:

• Was paying $278,000 in borrowed Chinese cash per simulated job worth it?  (misspelling deliberate)
• Why is your Attny General obstructing the Mexican guns probe?  Isn't obstruction of justice a crime?
  
• Economically speaking, 1 - 1 trillion =......What?
• Why do you hate the Brits?
• Why do you love the Russians, & Chinese?
• Why do Democrats seem so fond of brutal ruthless dictators?
• Saddam is to Bush as Gaddafi is to....(fill in the blank)
  
• How does your dogma differ from Socialist dogma?
• Are you an anti-Semite, or just anti-Zionist?
• Why are you so down on Corp jets, while you fly the most expensive Corp jet in the world?
• Why are the majority of Obamacare exemptions for Unions?
• What were the two key enablers of the Great Depression?  Hint: Trade tariffs and......what?
• Are you trying for the Guinness book for most holes of golf played by a sitting President?
  

I could go on, but you get the point.