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IMPRESSED ME NOT: Walter Shapiro on Obama’s Press Conference. “The president’s response to the fir…
Instapundit — ... IMPRESSED ME NOT: Walter Shapiro on Obama’s Press Conference. “The president’s response to the first question from the Associated Press about the risks of sounding too apocalyptic about the economy ran (or, to be more accurate, crawled) for nearly 1,200 words–and ended with Obama saying ‘Okay’ with an implicit question mark as if he were requesting permission to keep on talking.” More thoughts ...

Summing It Up
Riehl World View — ... Our new President is not getting rave reviews from anyone. Gee, I wonder why the market tanked early today? Oh and it looks curiously like he can't be trusted not to take advantage of every opportunity to move a Leftist political agenda forward, either. ...

Hullabaloo — ... and the reason that Obama "can't get any Republicans on board" is because a)they are political sociopaths and b) they are saying it is far too big and should be all tax cuts. The only economists who think that will work are unreconstructed wingnuts. That Vandehei thinks Republicans will benefit if the plan fails, even though their own plans are galactically wrongheaded, shows how the villagers help push the country right. So that's why Obama has to go directly to the people. Walter Shapiro and Bill O'Reilly may find his answers dull and longwinded, but I would ...

Jerry Weissman: Obama's First Press Conference
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... , who regularly reviews television for the New York Times, and Walter Shapiro, who has covered the last eight presidential elections, found the president long-winded. Ms. Stanley wrote, "Mr. Obama's locutions are steady, fluent and often very long. On Monday night, even his fiercest warnings about the perilous state of the economy were bracketed by professorial disquisitions." ...

Hugh Hewitt: About That First Press Conference
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — From The New Republic's Walter Shapiro: What Obama was decidedly not Monday night was Kennedy-esque . When JFK unveiled the live presidential primetime press conference 48 years ago, he answered 37 questions in the space of 40 minutes; Obama only half-responded to 13 questions in the space of an hour. Read the whole thing.

Hugh Hewitt: About That First Press Conference
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — From The New Republic's Walter Shapiro: What Obama was decidedly not Monday night was Kennedy-esque . When JFK unveiled the live presidential primetime press conference 48 years ago, he answered 37 questions in the space of 40 minutes; Obama only half-responded to 13 questions in the space of an hour. Read the whole thing.