According to the news, yesterday marked the first time in history that a president ‘tweeted’.

Far from being excited about the embrace of new technology by people in positions where embracing new technology usually means ‘approving laser guided robot spy hackers,’ or ‘assfucking communism with a new type of nuclear rocket that like expands and stuff making things really uncomfortable for like, communism or whatever,’ I find it quite hilarious that the president of the United States chose to use a new technology that limits him to 140 characters when he wants to say something.  (He’s the president of the most powerful nation in the world, he should be entitled to a few more characters here and there as necessary, shouldn’t he?)

Imagine trying to be the president of the United States of Chipotlemerica and running the country on 140 character edicts every day?  Your life would be entirely about “trying to find a four letter word for ‘disenfranchised youths’,” or, “having 20 characters left to convey urgency for passing a health care reform act.”

Incidentally, I imagine that’s much like the George W. Bush reign of terror was ran.  I imagine Dubya sitting in the oval office saying things that would have quite comfortably passed under Twitter’s 140 character limit like, “Hey, them guys in Efganstan, smarten ‘em up,” or “Someone make that Saddam guy get off my TV,” or “I like pickle juice. Y’all should too.”

Yes, time they are a-changing.  Soon we will see Obama blogging in the middle of the night about the glory days of Def Leppard, maybe Digging a whole bunch of photos of ski-jumping McGyver lookalikes, anonymously Skype chatting a 19 year old receptionist in Miami – his handle would be RadSurFR1987 – or even on Partypoker trying to disassociate what appears to be the avatar of an old lady in sunglasses from her forty dollars.