{"id":4106,"date":"2011-08-09T18:04:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T00:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2011-08-09T18:04:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T00:04:39","slug":"how-obama-has-disappointed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4106","title":{"rendered":"How Obama has Disappointed The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/m.spiegel.de\/international\/spiegel\/a-779043.html#spRedirectedFrom=www\">Mark Hujerk<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>He was constrained by a number: 140, the maximum characters a Twitter message can contain. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, it was US President Barack Obama&#8217;s own, self-imposed limit. Obama was hosting a &#8220;Twitter Town Hall Meeting&#8221; in the East Room of the White House, where he hoped to explain his policies through the new medium.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a challenge for a politician to restrict his comments to 140 characters, especially during a budget crisis in which anger and shouting seemed to prevail over actual arguments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to make history here as the first president to live tweet,&#8221; Obama said with an amused smile, as he walked up to a laptop adorned with the presidential seal. These were big words for a particularly insignificant event.<\/p>\n<p>Obama has always managed to win over Americans with big words. He used big words to raise expectations and establish a mood of change in the 2008 presidential election campaign, when he inspired the country with his slogan &#8220;Yes, we can.&#8221;<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hujerk: He was constrained by a number: 140, the maximum characters a Twitter message can contain. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, it was US President Barack Obama&#8217;s own, self-imposed limit. Obama was hosting a &#8220;Twitter Town Hall Meeting&#8221; in the East Room of the White House, where he hoped to explain his policies through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}