U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie has gone high-tech for his re-election campaign with a slick new Web site that features a feed from Twitter, a mini-blogging service that allows you to constantly update people on what you’re doing in 140 characters or less.

Naturally, I was curious to see if the loquacious Abercrombie’s could hold his “tweets” to such a tight word limit, and naturally he couldn’t.

On almost all of his posts, you get only a snippet and have to follow a tinyurl to the full posting at jott.com. Jott is a another new-age marvel that allows you to speak your posting into your cell phone and have the type magically appear on the Internet.

Unfortunately, they apparently haven’t worked out the bugs well enough to handle Abercrombie’s booming voice, which produces some interesting typos (I’m probably just stung that somebody noted a couple of my typos last week).

Anyway, a few of Abercrombie’s recent Twitter posts:

• July 13: “I was down at the Chariton(?) giving speech to the carpenter here and afterwards we marched down with ____ management there refused to bargain and good faith with the workers there.” (I wonder if the carpenter stopped hammering while Neil gave him the speech.)

• July 11: “Hello hi, everybody! Neil again from Los Angeles Airport. I just finished talking with my good friend Kirk Wislet(?) from the Social Democratic Party. I suppose I should end going(?) for that for you …Oloha(?).” (A hooey hou.)

• July 11: “Just to finish up my note on the Brandenburg Gate. The enthusiasm for Brock is incredible. In Europe and Albia(?), gigantic humongous crowd there. In Berlin, I don’t wanna see that happen. They don’t wanna show how popular he is with the changed(?) message that he is bringing.” (That guy Brock needs to stop changing his message if he wants to be president.)

• July 4: “I’m here with Josh Ring(?), over here in Cona(?), 4th of July. Jess is running for the senate. He couldn’t do better.” (Best of luck to Josh, Jess, wherever he is.)

• July 2: “Hi, it’s Neil. Again, I am not sure I got the whole message and before about Holy(?) oCralana(?) Stewardship there and Molly(?) Opera(?) economic opportunity … ” (The whole message would have just made me more dizzy.)

• July 2: “I visited Demoly(?) Agronomic opportunity to remind ourselves of our stewardship of our fellow human beings. And I was at the Berroco Bar … ” (Ah, that explains everything.)

Tags: elections, Neil Abercrombie

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