Obama’s First News Conference: Questions We Wish They’d Asked - Comments Page 2

Part of: Mark My Words

What might we have learned had reporters asked the right questions at Obama's first news conference as President-elect.

Is there a group more trapped in the world of hysterical obviousness than the presidential press corps? In his first news conference as president-elect, Obama was called cautious in his responses by The Washington Post. Perhaps that’s not the right word. Bored brainless might be better. Every question, regardless of whether it was on foreign or domestic policy, had a hidden assumption that this guy was already the president, even though he had rightly opened his remarks by saying he wasn’t the president, that there was only one government and one president.…
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  • 26 - Lisa Solod Warren

    Nov 11, 2008 at 10:16 am

    Yup, Clav. Whatever works:)

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