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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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Open for Questions: President Obama to Answer Your ...
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 ...
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Open for Questions: A Republican Opportunity
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Obama Hangs "Open for Questions" Sign on the White House
techPresident —
Teaser:
"[W]e're going to try something a little different," says President Obama in a new video released tonight. "We're going to take advantage of the Internet to bring all of you to the White House to talk about the ...
Forget the MSM, pose your own questions to President Obama
Top of the Ticket —
The White House is launching a new effort to reach the public without the filter of the mainstream media. So if you cringed at some of the questions posed at last night's presser by reporters accredited to cover the White House, or just wanted to ask your own, now is the time to speak up.
In fact a new White House website -- www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions -- allows you not only to lob in some questions about the economy, but also to vote on the importance of those that have already been offered. As of this morning, 9,677 people had submitted 10,806 questions and cast 355,040 votes.
President Obama plans ...
And the winners are: Top Web questions for Obama's online town hall today
Top of the Ticket —
At 8:30 a.m. Pacific, President Obama plans to stride into the East Room for the first "Open for Questions" online town hall in presidential history -- webcast live on www.whitehouse.gov. Vice President Joe Biden's chief economist, Jared Bernstein,
will play moderator, reading the most popular
questions posed by visitors to the website, who voted on the best queries. Then the president will take follow-up
questions from a live audience of 100 teachers,
nurses, small-business owners and community leaders.
Online visitors got to pose questions and vote on their favorites. ...
Open For Questions: Obama Holding Online Chat On Economy
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
WASHINGTON — Call it Round Two of the news conference, with a big Internet twist.
President Barack Obama took questions from the White House press corps on Tuesday in a prime-time, East Room session that represented the most formal and time-honored of president-and-reporter interactions. On Thursday, he is taking to that same room for another public grilling _ this time by regular folks armed with questions submitted via the Internet and in person, as part of a political strategy to engage Americans directly.
"It's a way for the president to do what he enjoys doing out on the road, but ...
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techpresident.com 3/24/2009 — I'm writing from my iPhone so I'll be brief and fill in more late. White House new media staffer and director of citizen engagement has announced that over at http://www.Whitehouse.gov/openforquestions they are reviving Change.gov's "Open for Questions" interactive forum. Perhaps today's ...
Ensuring a friendly audience for online town hall
politico.com 3/26/2009 — 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 ...
Open For Questions —
BAGnewsNotes
Regarding Obama' live, on-line, and commercially televised "Open for Questions" town hall, I was looking for an example of the exact same scene captured in a newswire image and on the White House webcast. This is the closest I could get.
What we have -- beyond the ...
Barack Obama Is Open For Questions: Live Stream Now —
Hit & Run
The president is doing an interactive livestream chat from the White House (too much yellow, fellow!). The main point so far: Obama is working to minimize expectations while pumping up the optimism. The questions have been piped in from citizens all over the country and let me tell you, you ...
Open for Questions —
The Page by Mark Halperin
Obama heads to the keyboard Thursday to hold an online town hall-style meeting at 11:30 am ET on the White House's website.
White House is asking only for questions on the economy. People can vote on which questions they want Obama to answer until 9:30 am ET.
Submit and view questions ...
Open for Questions? We’ll see: —
GayPatriot
Got this email today in my surreptitious Obama inbox:
Friend –
I wanted to tell you about an exciting new feature just launched on the White House website called “Open for Questions.”
Here’s how it works — President Obama is inviting everyone to ask a ...
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 ...
White House 'Open for Questions' —
Ben Smith's Blog
The White House today put up its own Digg-style " Open for Questions " page, something they debuted during the transition, but have been able to pull off on government servers and with government rules.
The top questions tend to focus on funding for education and similar domestic ...
White House Announces It's 'Open for Questions' —
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By Jose Antonio Vargas And the online masses breathes a (slight) sigh of relief. This afternoon, WhiteHouse.gov launched "Open for Questions," an interactive page where users can post questions on the economy and vote the submitted questions up or down. The site will continue taking questions ...
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 ...