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Obama To Host E-Townhall Meeting Thursday
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
The outreach continues: President Obama will answer questions in an online townhall meeting on Thursday. The White House web site is taking questions right now -- they're "Open for Questions," as a matter of fact. You can submit questions and vote up or down about whether they should be included. And lest you want to ask about whistleblower protections, the session will be limited to the economy. Here is boilerplate, Obama-style. ...
President Obama Press Conference Thread
Open Left - Front Page —
... Also, Whitehouse.gov is starting up another round of "Open for Questions" along with the press conference. It is pretty cool that we all get a chance to ask a question, not just the credentialed media. ...
Obama Hangs "Open for Questions" Sign on the White House
techPresident —
... , Open for Questions signals that the Obama Administration is taking seriously its stated commitment to running a participatory and wired White House. OFQ was announced in a blog post posted just an hour or so before Obama's traditional press conference before Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, and the rest of the the White House press corps tonight. On Thursday, the president will take time to participate in "a special online town hall." The event will be live streamed on WhiteHouse.gov, and he'll answer "some of the most popular questions." (That's wording, of ...
Obama’s Press Conference
The Democratic Daily —
... Incase you haven’t seen it, here’s your opportunity to do just that: “Open for Questions: President Obama to Answer Your Questions on Thursday.” ...
The Event "Is" The Strategy
Riehl World View —
... On Thursday Obama will be on the Web doing the same thing with the people. It will be as light on any real news or details as was tonight's venture. Those things aren't your business. The narrative on Obama all along was always that, for all his seeming openess, he has never been one to actually let people in on what's going on. ...
Whitehouse.gov Catching Up With Change.gov
Swampland —
... raw documents, allowing people to comment on raw documents, opening comment threads, allowing people to ask and vote on questions for transition officials, etc. The first 64 days of the Obama Administration have not been as much fun as the transition, a function less of Team Obama's intentions than the technological and bureaucratic barriers to being innovative online inside of government. But the drought is beginning to end. As of 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Whitehouse.gov is now taking your questions. ...
The White House is Open For Questions
The Moderate Voice —
Go here for info on how to participate.
I think the TMV readership could have some good questions. I fantasized about being able to ask President Bush a question (okay, more like deliver a speech at him) when he was president. And I do firmly believe that American politicians should face determined inquiry from American citizens of all stripes and persuasions. That isn’t to say I think Obama (or Bush for that matter) has an obligation to grapple with professional bomb-throwers or people who are (to be blunt) morons. But the basic idea, I think, is ...
ThinkFast: March 25, 2009
Think Progress —
... The White House is “Open for Questions.” Americans can submit economy-focused questions to the White House website — and vote others’ questions up or down — and President Obama will answer them during a web townhall tomorrow. View the more than 10,000 questions that have already been submitted, or ask your own, ...
ON THE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE: President Obama is Taking Your Questions….
Instapundit —
ON THE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE: President Obama is Taking Your Questions.
Obama Will Take Online Questions Via “The White House Is Open To Questions” On Thursday
The Moderate Voice —
... of all aspects of the new media to get his message out and answer questions. Literally.
He’ll be going online Thursday morning to take questions from people about the economy. Here’s the White House video:
The White House is Open for Questions from White House on Vimeo
The White House is headlining this “The White House Is Open For Questions” and here is how they frame it:
Today, the President invited everyone to use a ...
Christina Bellantoni: In total, Obama fields 88 questions since Nov. 4
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... You can find details here, but they say "the president will conduct a special online town hall on the economy and answer some of the most popular questions and the event will be streamed on WhiteHouse.gov." ...
First Progressive Personal/Social Relationship Column from BuzzFlash: "Ask Zoe"
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... reading 10 letters a week selected for him from the White House mail room. Another way to send a message to President Obama or elected officials is through a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. Most congressional representatives have a staff member who reads over letters to the editor and reports back on reader opinion trends, as we presume the White House does for major papers. President Obama has also held a press conference where he answered questions received over the Internet from Americans . You can find White House contact informat at ...
