When Krauthammer muses that Obama shows disdain both grandiose and petty for the history of the office he inhabits, this is the kind of sensibility that he's talking about. Although I'm not sure that "history" is the right word since apparently the ascent of Dear Leader is Year Zero:

The [Bush] administration handed over twitter.com/thewhitehouse at noon on Inauguration Day, just like it did with the whitehouse.gov website. Google still has the old account... in its cache. Valleywag alum Paul Boutin suggests on Gadgetwise that this is a simple rationalization of accounts, matching the definite-article-free "whitehouse" username the Obama team uses on Flickr and YouTube. But Obama's Twitterers didn't just change the username on the account; they started fresh, wiping out all of the White House's existing Twitter followers, and the entire archive of messages.

Actually the Google cache just points to the now-blank pages where the tweets used to be. The actual content has been permanently erased. So if you're a Communication scholar or historian studying early Presidential uses of social media technologies, you're screwed. Because fuck you that's why.

References:
* It's Your Country Too, Mr. President [Krauthammer / WaPo]
* Why Did the White House Delete Bush's Tweets? [Valleywag]

Previously:
* Finally: The Obama USB Drive
* Video: CNN's Aww Shucks "Top 10 Obama Faux Pas" Roundup Misses A Few Things
* Farrakhan: Obama Is "A Herald Of The Messiah... A Savior" (Plus: Obama's Followers Attacking Conservatives, Fantasizing About Shooting Palin)