Does anyone know if this will be televised?
And edit to add: m$nbc just claimed 96,000 people have submitted questions, while chuckie todd claims this is a photo op event. :eyes:
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/03/obamas_online_town_hall_wisdom.html#moreObama's online town hall: 'Wisdom'
Posted March 26, 2009 8:45 AM
The Swamp
by Mark Silva and Christi Parsons
The president is answering a lot of questions about the economy these days.
Today, he will answer them online - opening an Internet "town hall'' session from the White House - where President Barack Obama will respond to the most "popular'' of thousands of questions that people have posed to the president at his Website.
More than 30,000 people had submitted questions yesterday, for a conversation with the president that begins at 11:30 am EDT today at the White House Website.
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"This isn't us putting our finger in the wind and asking, 'Which way should we go?' It's us getting a snapshot from people about what's on their mind,'' Phillips says. "It's a way of tapping into the collective wisdom."
The "town hall'' meeting will take place before a live audience of local participants in the East Room who also will ask qestions. In addition, other questions will be posed by video, reminiscent of the groundbreaking YouTube debate that took place during the Democratic primaries.
Jared Bernstein, of Vice President Joe Biden's staff, will moderate for the president.
It's not clear how far down the list of selected questions the president will get, or if all the most popular ones will be addressed. But Phillips says they're definitely not trying to screen out tough questions.
"The president is at his best when he's answering difficult and challenging questions," he says.
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