Okay, Just One More Post Regarding Weiner and Then I’m Done

Clearly, there are some lessons to be learned from the Weiner debacle.  First and foremost, if we can’t just scour Congress of all the creeps (and I’m pretty sure we can’t), let’s at least make sure they work on their media presence.  In an interview shortly before his accidental tweet, then-Rep Weiner said he didn’t have anyone on staff looking over his tweets/Facebook posts before they went out, and he acknowledged that this had the potential for trouble. Um, yeah it did.

In fact, so compelling were these lessons that the Obama 2012 campaign has taken them into account!  Let’s see what they have to say:

Starting today, you’ll notice something new about President Obama’s Facebook page and his Twitter account,@BarackObama.

Obama for America staff will now be managing both accounts, posting daily updates from the campaign trail, from Washington, and everywhere in between. You’ll be hearing from President Obama regularly, too; on Twitter, tweets from the President will be signed “-BO.”

I’m sure that “BO”‘s tweets will be heavily screened before they make it into the twitterverse, but the timing just seems a bit amusing.

*And while we’re back on the subject of Weiner (sorry), remember when I said I hoped his wife Huma Abedin would run for office herself?  Ann Friedman took it one step further, suggesting that Abedin should run for the NY Congressional seat that Weiner is vacating.  Not sure how hubby would feel about that, but definitely sure I don’t care.  There’d be some poetic justice to that.  And it’s not like she isn’t smart, savvy, and politically experienced.

Related posts:

1. On Hubris and Cockshots
2. Not a post-mortem of the 111th Congress — at least not yet
3. “I like Weiner”