The world is abuzz with Twitter. It seems like every Tom, Dick, and Ashton has a Twitter account. If one can wade through the narcissistic Twitter wasteland, the service can be helpful. Twitter is great for following real-time events (like the Google crash last week) or to get the first thoughts of journalists/bloggers. There are even fake spacetweets from astronauts. That aside, I come back to the wasteland.
Yesterday President Obama gave speech supposedly about Gitmo that I’d rather not get into at this time. Former Vice President Cheney gave a speech on the same topic shortly after Obama finished. It seems as if both sides of the political spectrum were happy with their guy’s speech (shocking). Evidently, Senator Tom Harkin took a break from creating and supporting bad legislation to give his 2¢ on the issue. I know this because I’m following “Tom Harkin” on Twitter. Well, not really; I’m actually following his name on Twitter.
Every time some person Twitters Tom Harkin’s name I get an email. That’s great when I find out that Harkin calls Cheney “pathetic” for giving a logical speech on Gitmo, but it’s bad when I get an email tweet like this…
Eveofdestructio: sen. Tom Harkin was on and he talked about how obama is following are great constition and Bill of Rights, which cheney threw out .
Really, the words speak for themselves. I guess it was the word constitution that was on the eve of destruction. It still surprises to me that people believe foreign combatants fall under the protection of the United States Constitution. Who knew plotting to blow up innocent civilians and US targets entitles a person to rights as a US citizen? Anyway, that’s a whole separate post in itself. The great world of Twitter debate has begun. Oh, the possibilities are endless.
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