Forget Muslims, illegal immigrants, and the Illuminati: hipsters are invading the White House. President Obama has just announced Harper Reed, former Chief Technology Officer of Threadless (WHAT), as the CTO for the Obama 2012 campaign.
While Reed might not look like your typical preppy DC stock, I’m confident that his command of social media and digital audience-building will come in handy next year.
How do you feel about politics becoming young and hip?
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Can’t wait for Obama to get his ears pierced and never shave again.
rose / 834 posts
I can’t wait for this to fail so hard because most of America hates hipsters, even the hipsters who are in denial of being hipsters themselves. Maybe America hating hipsters will transfer over to America not voting for lame incumbents.
sunflower / 342 posts
Hipsters will take over the world over my dead body.
I do NOT want Ke$ha to be leader.
She abuses unicorns >:O
xo’
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Not gonna lie, I love Threadless so….
daffodil / 1615 posts
@starcrossedloversdivine@xanga - I love this time 4058449356835
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meh who cares. i want obama out. so let this be his downfall.
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totally good.
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It’s obvious you and your commenters don’t understand what a CTO actually does, else you wouldn’t be so focused on his dress or his influence in the media.
daisy / 558 posts
It could be a good thing.. We need more people to get interested in politics.
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@six6vi@xanga - haha
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Obama has swag
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I like Threadless.
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I have a few babydoll tees from Threadless
at least his shirt designs are more original and creative than just stamping a company logo on it like other brands.
his hairdo is groovy.
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sunflower / 353 posts
He seems like a cool guy. I’m tired of hearing the word “hipster” though.
orchid / 173 posts
@six6vi@xanga - hah! my thoughts exactly xD
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as ke$ha would say…
“hot and dangerous”
hipsters are hot (except they sorta smell), but this could backfire….
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Yayyyy— whats a CTO?
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@six6vi@xanga - What does a CTO do? Not a smartass comment..serious business.
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It would be nice if more young people started getting involved in politics because then maybe there could be more progressive change. I don’t know about anybody else, but here in the midwest the middle-aged Republicans are starting to take over and the results are not cool so far (funding cuts for education, preschool programs, the arts, and other things that they deem unnecessary). Easy to cut education funding when you already got your own kids through college. Fuck everybody else I guess…
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I’m not sure. It seems like most young people are too impressionable and susceptible to marketing gimmicks to know what they are voting for. That’s not totally limited to young adults though. It would be nice if researching and critical thinking became young and hip. Oh, and absolute values. :/
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I don’t know if politics will ever be young and hip. We should not judge people for how look and dress, but for what they can or cannot do. All I know for certain is that the government is not here to help the general middle class. Barely staying afloat, but no one will cut us a break. Yay me.
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Bout fricken time!
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@SicTransitGloria19@xanga - @crashthedr3am@xanga - The CTO is kind of the head of one of the several information technology departments that’s focused on a company or enterprise’s mission statement and how to express that with web presence. They have to lead projects on coding and implementing web applications as well as other tools to let the business become web based instead of otherwise.
They also have to provide analysis on any competing services, technology trends, social shifts in the use of technology, create business plans and service level agreements for applications before they are released based on these analyses, ensure that the company is within federal bounds as well as the bounds of partner businesses, create and implement coding standards and pretty much do the job of everyone beneath him in their absence which is a shit ton of people.
In short he does a lot, far more than most people do in the technology field if the job is done correctly. Teasing him would not be wise because these people also make a shit ton of money for what they do. Without a CTO a business might as well not exist in this day and age.
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He’s a CTO. Like a CFO or head legal counsel that sort of work can and does transcend corporate boundaries. If he was in charge of product marketing, that might have turned some heads, but it’s not a bad move by the Obama Administration to appoint a person they think will be able to resonate with younger voters in charge of their social media marketing.
Win Facebook and you win the war.
orchid / 129 posts
Hipsters are.. pretentious. Most of the time. I know a few that aren’t.
But Hipsters blended into the political world? Man, I can’t wait to be schooled in Political facts that I’ve never heard of…
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poop poop
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what are hipsters again? My friend called me one and I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to be offended or not
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Why does everyone hate ‘hipsters’?
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I lived in Chicago for much of Obama’s 2008 campaign, and this new CTO seems consistent with the social media team he had in Chicago for the last election– not to mention, Threadless is Chicago-based. Obama’s one of the younger, hipper presidents this country’s ever had, so it absolutely makes sense. And it’s about time, too.
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This is an ad hominem circumstantial fallacy.
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I read the Chicago Tribune article,and I think what I find most annoying about this person is that he calls himself “probably the coolest guy ever.” The way I see it, if you have to say something like that, it probably means that you are in actuality one of the most colossal douchebags ever.
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hipsters baffle me. but this seems like a really smart idea by the obama
administration… regardless of whether people like or dislike
“hipsters” i’m sure this guy will create great internet presence for the obama administration. people will probably forget he’s even the one who’s behind it.
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Oh what the fuck. The world is going to end a lot sooner than 2012 if Obama keeps this shit up.
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I actually like that because then I feel that will translate to other fields of work and I’ll be able to walk in wearing the cute clothes I would wear to school.
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@preskinny@xanga - ke$ha is anything but a hipster…
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also I think the fact that guy was hired…as long as he’s compentent…is a sign of change…peircing and tattoos, in this modern society – should not be a standard of professionalism or competency.