Ep. 520: Where we hire a new Twitterererer Video

Video description: In our struggling economy, it's nice to know that our Commander-in-Chief is doing his part to provide jobs to our country. Well, at least one: Barack Obama is hiring a new Social Networks Manager! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to "maintain the Democratic Party and Organizing for America accounts on all social networks (such as Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace accounts, etc."

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