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President Obama Elected Mayor!

President Obama may soon earn the badge as "Mayor" of the White House, thanks to his joining the mobile check-in service, FourSquare. Let's all sigh in unison, shall we?
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8/16/2011 6 comments
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Chris Poley
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Wednesday August 17, 2011 5:39:11 PM
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I have a close friend who is with the White House press corps and was able to uptain Obama's first FourSquare entry. 

Just  joined Harold and Kumar at White Castles, as always had a half dozen sliders too many. As mayor, my first order of business was to appoint a full staff bathroom custodians. 

antonis
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Wednesday August 17, 2011 2:38:34 AM
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Hi Nicole, I wonder who else is checking in at the White House! We may have some competition here :)

Mary Jander
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Tuesday August 16, 2011 5:54:27 PM
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Unnecessary, and probably a distraction that naysayers will glom onto. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns!

Nicole Ferraro
IQ Crew
Tuesday August 16, 2011 5:08:03 PM
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I don't know, but I can't imagine that the minimal excitement he will generate by being on FourSquare could do very much at all to help. At this point, he has served a term, so the president has to run on his record now, not on Internet gimmicks. By all means, he should use the Web, of course. But some of this stuff is unnecessary, and I think being on FourSquare is an example of something unnecessary.

Kim Davis
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Tuesday August 16, 2011 4:54:41 PM
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Is this all a sideshow?  The last election demonstrated the effectiveness of the Internet in getting young people enthused about voting.  The Internet now has so many new aspects, I guess people are experimenting to see what will actually translate into votes next year.

Mary Jander
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Tuesday August 16, 2011 4:05:26 PM
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Enough with the social networking of President Obama! This probably isn't constructive. But hey, if the Pres wants to boost marketing and therefore economic growth, that may certainly be annoying, but what harm?

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