Obama: No Point Reading Blogs

Originally via Twitter. Life just isn't as simple as that.

Mr. Obama rode to the White House partly on his savvy use of new technology, and he has a staff-written blog on his presidential Web site. Even so, he said he did not find blogs to be reliable, citing the economy as one example.

“Part of the reason we don’t spend a lot of time looking at blogs,” he said, “is because if you haven’t looked at it very carefully, then you may be under the impression that somehow there’s a clean answer one way or another — well, you just nationalize all the banks, or you just leave them alone and they’ll be fine.”

Comments

[mark l.]

imagine if bush had said:

“Part of the reason we don’t spend a lot of time looking at blogs,” he said, “is because if you haven’t looked at it very carefully, then you may be under the impression that somehow there’s a clean answer one way or another — well, {you just help stabilze Iraq} or you just leave them alone and they’ll be fine.”

[jana]

So, Obama doesn't pay attention to polls (ha!), he doesn't pay attention to the stock market (obviously), we shouldn't listen to Rush or Fox News, and now we also shouldn't pay attention to blogs...

Hmmmm, it's almost as if he thinks that we should only listen to him and his minions....

weird.

[Philip McDaniel]

For me, Mark, I find that with the steady decline in my investments and savings I am angrier by the day at the antics of this chuckle-headed moron. I do not think he has a clue about what needs to be done and either his ‘advisors’ don’t either or he is not listening. We are in deep trouble in this country – worse than under the Carter administration – and Mr. Potatohead is steering us to ruin.

[mary]

I find this utterly bizarre since he used a flawless deployment of the internet to get himself elected. He had more than one website and more than one blogger touting his cause. He had "minions" in every comments section, who were ubiquitously spouting the same ideas in their own voices. One of the "let downs" has been that the "minions" perceive that they have lost their ability to make a difference. They feel there is no longer a venue for them to give him advice and discuss among themselves. The other day when I said "well send an email to the White House and to your senator and congress critter", "post to a blog", "write a letter to the editor", the minion in question said to me "those are old fashioned ways, I liked knowing that he was listening to what I think".

After that conversation I was really thinking about ways the president can call on everyone using the internet and he isn't. Sheesh, he could call on the computer people to help him put it together. He could call on the community people to help him know where things are the worst in terms of housing, he could call on the economists and the bankers and the traders, not all of them caused the problem and they might know how to get out of this mess faster. But, he isn't, and that is the mystery. So many people if called to service by the president would not think of themselves at all they would just pitch in, but he hasn't asked.

[elixelx]

I have tried and tried and tried but I CANNOT, for the life of me, make any sense of this quote of his!
Perhaps it's just another of those quotes that sound better than it reads!