Ken Salazar on Facebook *yawn*

Kenneth Lee Salazar - Secretary of the Interior

Let’s take a look at another politician’s facebook account: Ken Salazar. The 56-year old Democrat is Secretary of the Interior. He was one of the first Hispanic U.S. Senators. Other than Hilda Solis he does not emphasize his origins. There’s no mention of it on facebook. One of the interesting things you can find there is that he is Catholic. But that’s no huge revelation either.

 

Most of his status posts start with “Today” or once in a while “Yesterday”. As I scrolled down the page I read “Today I did this”, “today I announced that”, “today I promised to do this and that”. It seemed to be a very very serious facebook account. I got the impression that updating his facebook profile is a dull duty to him. But then I found something that I did no longer expect after all the dull posts. Something, that didn’t seem to fit in there. Either someone hacked his account or he had a good day: “Check out some photos from today's Panda event at the National Zoo.” Well isn’t that something?

 

Anyway, more than 2,700 people like this page. It didn’t take me long to find that Salazar has one special “friend”. There’s one person that comments every post. He is all over the page. And his comments are not nice. He criticizes everything Salazar says or does. One of the comments was: “Fire Ken Salazar.” Salazar does not respond to that.

 

The photo section is pretty dull as well. Six pictures – that’s it. One with Schwarzenegger, but other than that. Nothing special. But you should take a look at his profile picture: a crowd of kids cheering as Salazar shakes their hands. What it means to make such a picture your profile pic?! No comments – decide for yourselves…! But at least it's one of the few pictures, where he actually smiles.

I’ll just leave you with a short youtube video about the oil spill. Salazar looks astonishingly unimpressed during a woman’s protest. Judging from his online presence he doesn’t seem to be the most cheerful dude in Washington D.C. But hey, you should always consider his age. To actually HAVE a facebook account at his age, should count for s o m e t h i n g.

by US_watch