Today's Q's for O's White House

Darren . ...

You think Jake Tapper is submitting his questions ahead of time for White House approval?

Said by danita: "That President Obama is willing to face up and take questions from the media on a regular basis AND do town halls..."

Not to hard to do, when the questions are provided before hand, the White House gets to screen the questions and has time to research/SPIN the canned-answers, and all Obama has to do is read them from his Teleprompter. Granted the last part, reading aloud, is difficult for Obama. RoFL

Outside the Beltway: Presidential Press Conferences, RIP, June 24, 2009:Quite a kerfuffle has broken out in the blog and on Twitter over President Obama's calling on HuffPo's Nico Pitney to ask a pre-screen Iran question in yesterday's press conference. Mark Calderone of Politico broke the story.....Just thought I would throw that out

tjp612 . . .

You think Jake Tapper is submitting his questions ahead of time for White House approval?

"Obama calls on questions from many different media representatives and he does NOT know what they will ask."

Riiiiight....

"the reporters are told the night before that they will ask their questions"

This is horse crap intended to mislead. President Obama calls on questions from many different media representatives and he does NOT know what they will ask.

WhereWasThePress . . .

Suddenly Helen Thomas's words constitute the ultimate truth in the world? Just because Helen Thomas says it, it must be true? Get real.

President Obama faces news conferences and town halls on a regular basis. Bush hide and issued 'statements'.

You have no sense of historical perspective.

That President Obama is willing to face up and take questions from the media on a regular basis AND do town halls is a VAST improvement from where we were!

"I'm glad the President has been willing to face the media in news conferences and answer questions at town halls."

Only he's not. He's holding fake news conferences and town halls where the reporters are told the night before that they will ask their questions and the town hall participants are screened ahead of time.

Helen Thomas calls that controlling, and NOT transparent or forthright.

Very simple. Obama. Unprecedented CONTROL of the press...

I know, "but Bush..."

tjp612 . . .

I'm glad the President has been willing to face the media in news conferences and answer questions at town halls.

Remember how President Bush would hole up for month after month without taking any news conferences and unwilling to face that kind of questioning, but simply issuing 'statements'.

This President is willing to put himself and his policies on the line in front of public questioning.

This is a vast improvement over the previous administration.

"I must say this is a good diversionary tactic by Palin not to answer questions on the infighting between Palin & McShame camps.
This shows she is quite adept at using the MSM that follows her around."

I would agree that its a good idea for Palin to stay out of the fray going on right now between Kristol and Schmidt but its not good for her politically that the campaign infighting is STILL going on.

I must say this is a good diversionary tactic by Palin not to answer questions on the infighting between Palin & McShame camps.
This shows she is quite adept at using the MSM that follows her around.
I see all the follow the blind Hannity hacks bit the bait.

"Helen Thomas owned Gibbs at the presser."

I heard this. Chip Reid from CBS also questioned the methodology used to "stage" today's town hall (which Gibbsy pushed back in his typical arrogant fashion).

Hopefully this is the sign of good things to come (i.e., the press actually doing their jobs and reporting objectively on the antics of The One's administration).

Helen Thomas owned Gibbs at the presser.

She pointed out that the Obama administration keeps saying they are for transparency and yet they are the most controlling administration she has ever witnessed.

With Thomas's advanced age, that is saying a LOT. Gibbs just kept nervously laughing and avoiding her questions.

"GIBBS: Well, I mean, obviously, there's going to have to be discussions on this. This is not -- without having the details in front of me, this is not something that is going to be -- that there are certainly going to be exceptions for business size in this. There's no doubt about that.

LOL, incredible,... "Disccusions"....geee, I wonder what brought Gibbs to that thought? With all the attention brought to bear on this, HOW could he NOT have the details in front of him? Perhaps because there are NO details to have.

Yeah, go ahead Libbies...just vote this thing through. What a debacle! Yet, the Pres. wants it passed this summer!

WHY????? so all the REAL decisions and effects of those choices can only be dealt with after the fact?

This country's only hope now lies with idea that a few Dems will wake up and realize that yes the American people want healthcare reform, but they would actually like to know what it is before it gets passed!

You have a lot more scrutiny. And different presidents get judged by different standards. Posted by: borneo | Jul 1, 2009 2:07:43 PM

Whatever he does will always aggravate some. What makes it unbearable is the slobbering press that goes with him. They would all have to try to run with him and half of them would have strokes doing it - not to mention all the slips on slobber that would ocurr.

The DC press all had to trek up to NYC for date night because - of course - there are no news people in NYC who could cover the story. But when he went to make his speech to the medical association in (I believe) Chicago, no one went because they said it was too expensive to travel. On that important occassion, the MSM simply "phoned it in."

I'd rather see Palin run with the VP. He would be "chasing skirt" at that point. I can almost see his tongue hanging out and the sweat dripping off his hairplugs. I bet he'd still be grinning though! And when no one was looking, he could hop in his Corvette and race past her waving and grinning.

He's a smoker.

Obama'd be left in the dust by a lot of Americans who do not smoke and are in average shape. Palin finished a marathon in under four hours; Obama would be embarrassed, so... it'll never happen

now i would love to see this, a race between Palin and Obama. think he'll give her the evil eye thru out the race?

"I just think that he probably doesn't have the same amount of time to devote to that kind of running."

You are correct - It takes a lot of time and effort to dismantle the U.S. economy, prepare for/apologize for past U.S. "transgressions", and come to the defense of dictators when opportunities present themselves. It also takes a lot of effort to keep lies straight and hold-back true ideological positions.

I am glad that he can exercise. It's good and important. Distance running is really a big time investment, though.

I'm not saying he's a slouch or anything. I just think that he probably doesn't have the same amount of time to devote to that kind of running. And even if he did carve out time to run marathons, he would probably get criticized for it.

I just hope he does enough to stay healthy and keep his mind sharp.