Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet.
We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.
Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Four years is a long time in politics.