Can Barack Obama Fix Twitter?

   

The blogosphere loves Barack Obama. But apparently in America at least, blog readers and writers and commenters and flamers aren't always totally reflective of everyone.

In fact Carol Marin wrote in The Chicago Sun-Times that "The Lanky One is like an Alice Waters organic chicken — 'sleek, elegant, beautifully prepared. Too cool' — when what many working-class women are craving is mac and cheese."

But I'm a meat and potatoes kind of woman. I want a guy who will put steak and baked potato on the grill and throw together a salad after he walks the dog and harvests a nice melon he grew in our organic garden. But fearing no candidate will be all things to all people, I still keep hearing Obama say "Yes we can" every day.

And now the smart people in the land of web 2.0 where I've been known to I hang out give me web pages that claim OBAMA can do all this and more.

They've put together a fun website that jabs kindly - but with a hint of truth behind it - both poking fun at the candidate and the electorate who want our leaders to be able to play hardball with dictators, Mother Theresa to the underprivledged, and understanding friend to the folks who put him in office while being a good spouse and tweeting from his blackberry while importing oil without making deals we wouldn't approve of.

What each candidate brings to the table, like each of us, are strengths and weaknesses of a lifetime. We have to ask ourselves what exactly do we want? Is it someone who is so driven that they can do everything include, no doubt, win "dancing with the Stars"?

Maureen Dowd note insightfully in the New York Times that although many women say they will not vote for him:

"The odd thing is that Obama bears a distinct resemblance to the most cherished hero in chick-lit history. The senator is a modern incarnation of the clever, haughty, reserved and fastidious Mr. Darcy."

"Like the leading man of Jane Austen and Bridget Jones, Obama can, as Austen wrote, draw “the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien. ...he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased.”

Ouch. That hurts. Hero of chick-lit or not.

But maybe there's a way around this. For example if Obama can solve Twitter's problems, I don't care if he's haughty. If the Twitter magic happens before November and the tweet guys give him a shoutout for the help, I'm so there pulling the Obama lever, no matter how 'way too cool' he is.

And I'm trying to remember what a help for my offspring it would be since  . .

Comments

[Marti]

LOL! Thanks for this post - it made my day!

Hope you are doing OK, sorry I have so little time to check in. I am thinking of you and praying for you.