Getting Back to the People

            I read an article recently on MSNBC.com that was encouraging.  It was titled “Got Questions for Obama? Tweet ‘em now” by Nidhi Subbaraman.  The article discussed how the President is using new technology to directly communicate with Americans.  He’s tweeting, folks.  That’s right, the President of the United States will be holding a “Twitter Town Hall” to discuss the economy.  This was encouraging because we Americans are getting back to the beginnings of our country, when it, and our government were much, much smaller.  Regular citizens have a chance to communicate directly with the President.  We don’t have to go through the long, drawn out process of writing our local leader and hoping our topic is important enough to make it all the way to the top.  Or, we don’t have to write our Senator or Representative and hope that our letter is read along with the thousands of others they receive regularly.  This is the ultimate Town Hall meeting, as much as it can be with the large numbers of people involved.  This is an ingenious way to reach a massive amount of people real time and have a two-way conversation instead of a “top down” monologue.  It’s tomorrow at 2pm ET and you can tweet the President from now until tomorrow.  President Obama will be speaking on http//askobama.twitter.com or you can follow Tweets from @townhall.  See you there!