Anyone else find it childish that our President uses twitter

I don't know...I resisted the lure of the twitter for a while, but have finally come to embrace it. I don't think the President is any more childish to use twitter than say the Pope or the Dalai Lama-both of which I follow on my twitter feed.

Unless the tweets are signed BO, it is just an aide who writes tweets for him.

Where are the mocking tweets?

I have no issue with him using Twitter though. It is a huge part of life. I don't find it childish one bit.

Leader of the free world?
Do you consider The United States to be the only place in the world that is 'free'? Because that is the only part of the world he is the leader of.
As a citizen of a country that I consider very free, I find it slightly arrogant to refer to YOUR leader as the leader of all of us. Because he is not

Posting on Twitter being childish? It's the same comments he would make anyway, just a new format to do so in. Maybe people considered it childish when politicians first started to appear on TV...?

Twitter is a normal mode of communication in today's world. I have no issue with the president using Twitter, and I doubt you would, either, if the president were only Republican.

About mocking foreign leaders ... if 98% of the population doesn't get the mockery without having it explained to them, it's pretty freakin' subtle, isn't it?

Bibi Netanyahu has been very, and very publicly, disrespectful toward Pres. Obama. Rather than worrying that our leader is mocking him so subtly that hardly anyone even notices, I would think you'd take offense at the disrespect a foreign leader shows our president, especially one whom we send vast amounts of money and other forms of support to.

Apparently it's this

It's a reference to Netanyahu's "widely mocked" 2012 UN speech.

Oh ffs. Typical partisan bs to cry foul over something like that. Sorry I don't find that to be mocking a foreign leader. No matter who said it.

No I don't find it childish for a world leader to use social media. It is not intended for children. Twitter users are supposed to be over 13.

I use twitter mainly for information, so for President Obama to use it to communicate with his constituents makes great sense to me.

Isn't the account The White house? So its non-partisan.. whoever is in office would be using that account?

Yes. i wouldn't say childish but I would say lacking in dignity.

Post-presidency, I have no problem w him (any him) utilizing social media on his own. While serving, I wish he wouldn't. I think it makes him seem ordinary, and while you are a sitting president, you are anything but ordinary.

And Twitter seems so mundane. Shouldn't the President have more important things to do than tweet?

As to subject at hand - I don't find it childish to use it, it's the way of the world. But when the office of the POTUS uses it in a way that can be seen as mocking or rude, then yes, I have a problem with that. Once you take that oath, you are no longer a democrat or a republican, you are the president of all the people and you should be above the petty politics of division. Unfortunately, that is the only thing that Obama is good at - politics of division.

Know what I find really childish? Using the Easter prayer breakfast to chastise Christians, especially when you yourself held the exact same belief just a couple short years ago. All while refusing to chastise Muslims for the holocaust being committed against Christians and moderate Muslims in the Middle East.

I'm sorry, but that's an inaccurate and slanderous claim, along the same silly lines as Kanye West saying, "George Bush hates black people." It's just ridiculous.

List of current and former Jewish members (some extremely close to the president) of the Obama administration.

As far as supporting the destruction of Israel goes, that is equally ridiculous. I don't think Pres. Obama has the same close relationship some other presidents have had, but he is a far cry from hating it. I am very supportive of Israel; I still find Netanyahu's behavior and policies to be reprehensible.

You aren't convincing anyone with this extreme rhetoric.

Have you never heard the POTUS referred to as the leader of the free world before?    I'm not American either but, this term has been widely used and comes out of political alliances during the Cold War.   

Mocking foreign leaders I would find to be weird. (I haven't looked at his twitter feed to see if he's done that, just responding).

But tweeting? Have no issue with that. I get most of my news from Twitter these days. I don't have to watch commercials, can view it anywhere, can get it faster than it is on TV, and can get it from any source I want. I follow the Pope too. I think it's cool that he tweets. Seems like they are trying to communicate to a younger generation - or even just those of us that don't watch much TV.

I have never made that argument.