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politico.com - 3/26/2009
Ensuring a friendly audience for online town hall
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The White House will hold an online town hall today at 11:30 a.m., answering questions drawn from a list voted on by visitors to WhiteHouse.gov's Open for Questions . This is, at first blush -- and in reality -- a form of real transparency, in which the president goes around the media but ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/26/2009
Obama's Interactive Town Hall Meeting
— thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com — The event is the latest example of efforts by the Obama team to replicate its creative use... of the Internet during the election campaign. (more) Obama's Interactive Town Hall Meeting

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Surprise!... Obama's Town Hall Participants Were All Campaign Supporters
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 3/28/2009
Surprise!... Obama's Town Hall Participants Were All Campaign Supporters
— gatewaypundit.blogspot.com — What a shocker. Dear Leaders town hall participants were ALL campaign supporters or donors. President Barack Obama... listens to a question from teacher Bonnee Breese, right, of Philadelphia, as he takes part in an Internet town hall meeting, ... (more) Surprise!... Obama's Town Hall Participants Were All ...

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catherinefavazza.com - 3/26/2009
Support This Question in Obama's Online Town Hall Meeting
— catherinefavazza.com — Obama’s Online Town Hall: Rally Around This Question Posted by Catherine - 25/03/09 at 11:03 am President... Obama is inviting Americans to submit questions to an online forum and tomorrow, he will answer the most popular questions in an online town hall ... (more) Support This Question in Obama's Online Town Hall Meeting

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techPresident:  Getting Our "Open for Questions" Legs: Making Sense of the WhiteHouse.gov Experiment

Riehl World View:  The Illusion Of Democracy

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Getting Our "Open for Questions" Legs: Making Sense of the WhiteHouse.gov Experiment
techPresident — ... . In the day and a half the question round remained open, OFQ pulled in about 93,000 people, 104,000 questions, and 3.6 million votes. (Perhaps proof of Organizing for America's sustained organizing might?) And as is the natural order of things, questions about legalizing marijuana ...

The Illusion Of Democracy
Riehl World View — ... Ben Smith at Politico points out some of the problems with Obama's Internet townhall. As I posted the other day, the event is the strategy. Of the millions of questions submitted, many of them from Obama fans, the notion that the majority are even being read is silly. It only allows people to think they are really being engaged. It reminded me of the type of democracy they are currently experiencing in Britain, noted in another Brit video blasting Brown being circulated - see below. Major changes take place and the people never even get to vote. If you think it ...

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