Like athletes limbering up for the big game, White House reporters have been going through elaborate preparatory rituals as they bone up for tonight’s prime-time news conference with President Obama, the second formal “presser” of his presidency.
The Bush White House liked to spring its news conferences with as little as a few hours’ notice, on the theory that reporters would have less time to dream up stumpers and zingers. But Obama aides confidently announced tonight’s 8 ET session six days in advance.
There are 160 chairs, and somewhere between 12 and 20 correspondents are likely to get questions.
The unspoken contest playing out under the East Room lights: The president wants to deliver a message – in this case, reassurance on the economy and a plug for his budget – and not get tripped up by issues he considers extraneous, or that might overshadow what he wants to say.
Reporters have the opposite incentive: They want to “make news” by getting the president to say something he hasn’t said before, or wasn’t prepared to say – which, by definition, is not his message.
Mr. President, why did you appoint RIAA lawyers to run the DOJ?
Mr President, what did you think of Alex Rodriguez’s being photographed kissing himself in a mirror?
Mr. President, with the nation’s newspapers seemingly in a death spiral, do you think I should go back to school to be an architect?
Mr. President, what ever happened to going line by line and eliminating government agencies that just “don’t work”, in order to bring more fiscal control to government?
Mr President, how are you managing to bring the change in government you were elected to do with so many Republican speed bumps on the ground?
Mr. President,
Who’s actually running the show?
You recently sent a letter to Jacques Chirac, when it should have gone to Sarkozy. To reassure Americans that you aren’t a total idiot, could you please name the leaders of the other major countries?
Mr. President, How is spending the country into bankruptcy going to save us?
Mr. President,
Why do you consider my children to be your credit cards for “social good”.
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From Barack’s teleprompter blog, who reports that he will not be at the press conference.
http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/
Mr. President, where would you say you rank among the top ten presidents all time?
Mr President, why do you allow these f&cktarded asswipes to ask you such deluded questions, even if they are all funny? Wouldn’t America be a better place if your secret service grabbed them right now and planted them between the corn rows?
Seriously, why are you following so many of Bush’s fatally flawed approaches to prolonging a problem rather than CHANGING the paradigm?
From Obamabots on this blog: “Mr President, why you are so awesome?”
Now a real question would be something like: “Mr President what is your administration going to do to pay off the huge depts you are racking up against our children?”
Or
“Mr President, what will your administration do to pursue liberty and individualism in this country?”
OMG… where do i start??? where do i stop?? this q&a session is only so long?
Why did the government mandate fannie mae and freddie mac into the sub prime home loans?
How are we gonna be able to afford a loan from the banks with our own tax money, when loads of high paying manufacturing jobs have disappeared at an alarming rate? and still are? Will i have to go to china to get a good paying job??
How are we gonna fight any war when every lcd screen made for the us market comes outta china?? Or is that the whole idea, we fight the wars for china?? (remember every field communications system needs some type of display these days)
When are we gonna move to a flatter tax system? (there would be so much savings in just the silly printing of tax forms and their distributions alone, not to mention putting tax preparation type out of a job, who needs these leaches?? they serve no purpose other than to push new tax laws to make the whole system so complex you need a third party to take a cut of your tax return… how does that make sense?
Why in the stim-u-less package there wasnt a provision for eliminating tax abatements, discounts or whatever fed, state and local governments call them to attract businesses to their area? All this does is pit one area against another. How are communities supposed to provide services if they get short changed on tax revenue?
i could go on for days……………………………………..
It’s not only our children’s dept but as soon as the economy bounces back we will be paying for it too. I stopped spending money so that I can save for the obscene tax bill that I will be paying for the rest of my life.
Question:
The government can’t do anything right. Your tax dodging cronies have already proven that. Why won’t you stop giving them more money and give it to the people instead?
Why are more than ten percent of your appointees lobbyists?
Why are so many Treasury Department positions unfilled?
The article’s reporter is living in la-la land.
Reporters want to “make news” by getting the president to say something he hasn’t said before, or wasn’t prepared to say – which, by definition, is not his message.
That is pure 100% B.S.
The MSM’s goal has been and will continue to make The Messiah look great and sound great. They will droop over his pecs, his 3 pointers, his wife’s magnificent arms, and his captivating voice.
President Obama with the success of your first term, do you plan on running for a second term?
Mr President,
what is your favorite colour?
Mr. President, you do realize that the campaign is over, right?
Mr. President,
Did you really have to interrupt “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” with your speech?
Mr President,
How many times a day do you poop? Do you look at it afterward? Can I have some to sell on Ebay?
Mr President do you read Dvorak Uncensored?
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No, he doesn’t. We do and we’re taking names and collecting IP addresses.
@24, LibertyLover
Three words: bittorrent, hulu and Netflix. What? Your Entertainment Center isn’t connected to the Internet?
Are you going to be another Puppet, or are you going to do something?
Are you going to make it so the Demo/reps point and say “SEE, we told you a black person and women cant RUN this country”.
Do you REALLY know what you are doing??
#28, 🙂
Mr president: is that your face,or did your nech throw up.
Mr. President, when are you going to stop running the entertainment circuit like you’re still campaiging and ACTUALLY DO YOUR JOB?
Thank you very much, Barry. Keep up the good work.
“How can America rid itself of these toxic conservatives?”