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Obama’s online townhall meeting
Maybe our esteemed governor and state representatives should do something like this . . . wait, the only Republican in the state that understands internet technology is Pat Powers (And he’s really a closet Democrat). Nevermind.
Now, in the 21st century, President Obama has found his own fireside equivalent, launching an online town hall meeting Thursday where he will answer citizens’ questions about the troubled economy and his efforts to fix it.
“We’re going to try something a little different. We are going to take advantage of the Internet to bring all of you to the White House to talk about the economy,” he says in an introductory video on the site.
There was a press conference last night?
I got busy painting and totally forgot about this press conference. So I am going to hobble thru this the best I can;
“It took many years and many failures to lead us here. And it will take many months and many different solutions to lead us out. There are no quick fixes, and there are no silver bullets,” he said.
Can you say ‘Ronald Reagan’?
“We’ll recover from this recession, but it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that, when we all work together, when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interest to the wider set of obligations we have towards each other, that’s when we succeed,” he said.
See, that’s what wealthy, greedy, conservatives don’t understand – working together. Last I checked, this country belongs to all of us, we all chip in and we all reap the rewards of prosperity. That’s not socialism – that’s common sense.
