thenextright.com - 3/26/2009
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The long awaited MyBO and Change.gov mojo is back on WhiteHouse.gov. Tomorrow, President Obama will be responding to questions posed through the latest iteration of Open for Questions , a community-moderated style townhall.
With a little organizing, this is an opportunity for Republicans to ...
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Open For Questions
whitehouse.gov - 3/24/2009
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Today, the President invited everyone to use a
new feature on WhiteHouse.gov to ask a question about...
the economy and rate other questions up or down. He'll answer some of the most popular questions at a special online town hall on the economy this ...
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Getting Our "Open for Questions" Legs: Making Sense of the WhiteHouse.gov Experiment
techPresident —
Teaser:
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the White House new media team is emerging triumphant from...Lemme try again. Like General George Washington's revolutionary soldiers, counted out after their rations dwindled and they couldn't get their email working...Nevermind. The ...
More town halls
Ben Smith's Blog —
Macon Phillips says he's "elated" by how the online town hall went, which suggests there will be more.
And/but, as they say, Patrick Ruffini points out that Open for Questions could become a great opposition tool.
Ari Melber: President Obama's Never-Ending Virtual Town Hall
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
"We're actually going to have some live stuff," explained President Obama, "instead of some virtual stuff."
On that plucky note, Obama essentially ended the first open, democratically operated virtual town hall in White House history, turning his attention to a small crowd assembled in the East Room. Thursday's town hall drew swift and divergent reactions, but few observers noted how the gathering actually contained two completely distinct events.
The "live stuff," to use the President's taxonomy, was an entirely routine presidential meet-and-greet with supporters. Five questions were chosen randomly, but they were all drawn from a screened pool ...
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com 12/18/2008 — Open For Questions will probably be a vehicle for the Obama grassroots
groups to organize support around White House priorities. It will help
him get political cover for more controversial items that he wants to
tackle, and it has the side ...
Open for Questions (video)
youtube.com 3/27/2009 — This video was one of two played during President Obama's "Open for Questions" town hall meeting on March 26, 2009.We would like to thank the White...
President Obama: 'Open for questions'
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President Barack Obama is "open for questions.''
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'Open For Questions' Has Some Answers
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 1/9/2009 — More than 100,000 people submitted questions to the Obama transition team, including thousands of users who wanted to know whether the future president would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate "the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration."
Open for Questions
change.gov 12/10/2008 — With so many Americans involved in the political process for the first time, there's a great deal of interest in what's happening inside the Transition right now -- and what happens next.
Today, we're rolling out a new feature that lets you ask the ...
The Associated Press: Obama to answer questions on the Web tomorrow
google.com 3/25/2009 — 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is planning an online town hall-style meeting on the White House's Web site this Thursday. The White House says Obama will answer questions about the economy and other topics at WhiteHouse.gov. ...
The opportunity on Sotomayor
hotair.com 6/1/2009 — In all the commentary on Barack Obama’s appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the most fractious concerned how the Republicans should react to it. Some demanded an all-out war to block Sotomayor’s confirmation; others ...
Our take on NY-20 —
First Read 3/26/2009
From NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico MontanaroHere's our piece on MSNBC.com about Tuesday's special election in New York...
When it comes to political races, 2008 will certainly go down as a year to remember.
It featured more than 50 individual ...
Liveblogging President Obama's town hall —
CNN Political Ticker 3/26/2009
The president will be responding to questions from ordinary Americans this morning in a video live stream, and CNN wants hear what you think of the answers.
On Tuesday, President Obama took questions from the national press corps — today, ...