Watching the State of the Union online really not applause worthy

I watched the State of the Union online last night and was wholly unimpressed. My girlfriend and I started out on whitehouse.gov, and about halfway through the non-HD stream, the feed froze (at a critical point, no less). So we switched over to CNN.com, which did not crash but had a Facebook feed running down the side, with a bunch of Yahoos spouting ire about the “socialist” and “communist” who was giving the speech (i.e. our President). Where'd these imbeciles come from…MySpace? Which leads me to this simple question: Obama is planning on doing a follow-up Q&A session on YouTube next week. Why bother? If the Facebook audience from last night's event tells you anything, serious politics and "young" Web users just don’t mix that well. Someone out there is going to rip into me about “freedom” and “eagles swooping from liberty bells”—I can just hear it now.

— Posted by Will Levith