Tweets From The Trail: Déja Vu All Over Again
Today, political types experienced déja vu and marveled at Al Sharpton’s weight loss. Here’s our roundup of the day’s best Tweets from the campaign trail. Read More
Obama Says Romney’s Campaign Messsage Would Fit ‘On A Tweet’
At a fundraiser in Maryland today, President Barack Obama criticized the core message of Mitt Romney’s campaign as simplistic.
“Because folks are still hurting right now, the other side feels that its enough for them to just sit back and say, ‘Things aren’t as good as they should be and it’s Obama’s fault,’” the president said. “You can pretty much put their campaign on, on a tweet and have some characters to spare.” Read More
Estonian President Explains His Twitter Tiff With Paul Krugman
Yesterday evening, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves made a series of angry posts on Twitter taking issue with a blog post written by the New York Times’ Paul Krugman criticizing Estonia’s economic performance. Many who saw the Twitter spat doubted the account actually belonged to Mr. Ilves, but The Politicker reached out to the Estonian government and received confirmation and a statement from the man himself.
“Yes I send my own tweets,” Mr. Ilves said. “It was a sincere and immediate defense of the major and often difficult efforts of Estonia to deal with the economic crisis and to stick to the rules adopted in the European Union.” Read More
Beautiful Dark Twitter Fantasies
Romney Campaign Creates An Imaginary Bill Clinton Twitter Account
In their latest press release, the Romney campaign asked, “WHAT IF @Bill_Clinton12 WERE TWEETING?” They proceeded to answer their own question with a series of hypothetical Tweets from a @Bill_Clinton12 account. Read More
Tweets From The Trail: Ben Versus Betsy
Today, political types were feuding with each other. Here’s our roundup of the day’s best Tweets from the campaign trail. Read More
Tweets From The Trail: Viva Las Vegas
Today, political types were chatting about Bob Dylan tunes and fear and loathing at Donald Trump’s Vegas fundraiser. Here’s our roundup of the day’s best Tweets from the campaign trail. Read More
Tweets From The Trail: Battlefield Earth
Today, political types were focused on the literary works of L. Ron Hubbard, bad hair days and beefing with their peers. Here’s our roundup of the day’s best Tweets from the campaign trail. Read More
Tweets From The Trail: I.P.Uh-Oh
Today, political types were focused on the Facebook I.P.O, the French and diarrhea. Here’s our roundup of the day’s best Tweets from the campaign trail. Read More
Chris Christie Begging Celebrities To Watch His Veepstakes Video
Hey, have you seen New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s goofy web video with Newark hero-Mayor Cory Booker? Have you? Have you? Well, if you’re famous enough, Mr. Christie has probably tried to pitch it to you over Twitter.
Last night, the official account of the New Jersey Governor tweeted at Saturday Night Live and Seth Meyers, suggesting Mr. Christie and Mr. Booker would be good for a sketch on the show. Cute. But a quick glance further into his feed shows clear and troubling signs of desperation. Read More
Tweets From The Trail: Drugs and Drones
Today, political types were focused on Chris Matthews’ screaming, drugs and drones. Here’s our roundup of the day’s best Tweets from the campaign trail. Read More
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