The Digital President: Barack Obama's Internet Town Hall Is a First
Barack Obama is proving he is the digital president
DAILY NEWS STAFF
He collected more than 13 million email addresses and raised half a billion dollars online during the campaign, he has YouTube channel, a Facebook page, he Twitters and he stubbornly refuses to relinquish his BlackBerry, President Obama is the first digital president - and Thursday, he will take it one step further.
On Thursday, Obama will host an Internet Town Hall meeting in the White House East Room, during which anyone can tune in and submit questions online.
The White House Web site reports that 92,829 people have submitted 103,979 questions and voted 3,608,445 times for their favorite questions.
Citizens across the country can watch the event online at OpenForQuestions.
The president likely will use the session to explain his massive budget plan, a $3.6 version of which the House of Representatives Budget Committee approved over objections from Republicans who say it spends taxes and borrows too much. Administration critics argued Obama would drive the country into unsustainable debt.
Obama will also answer follow-up questions from a live audience of about 100 people.
With News Wire Services
Reader Comments
Good thing it's only "digital" money
Our "Brave, new JR Senator" does live in his digital age, unfortunately it has clouded his vision of reality.
Here's a little coffee:
The US deficit stood at $562 Billion the day Obama took office.
With the plans already inacted in just over 2 months, the deficit is 338% higher or 1.9 Trillion.
For those who may not know, a Trillion is 1000 Billion or $1,000,000,000,000.00.
For those that seem not to care, the deficit is what we spend that we do not have.
This amount of money already obligated equals $4371.00 for every man, woman and child in the US.
All this from a man who labled Bush as an "over-spender" and vowed to "examine every program to cut government waste and spending".
These figures come from the Congressional Budget Office and the US Census.
Check for yourself.
solving the economy
A friend of mine who is a CPA from Princeton calculated this so take a look. we need to solve the problem not just put a bandaid on it. instead of bailing out big buisnesses that obviously don't know how to manage money or are gready, just like the well theory. give it back to the people. the calculations were this that as of the current stimulus plan instead of giving it to big buisnesses give it to every person in the United States which came out to be about $300,000.00 a person. Now what do you think you could do with that. pay off your house, buy a house, buy or pay off your car, go out an spend it in the economy. now if we all did this the big buisnesses would get their money, people wouldn't have to lose their jobs because the public would be buying their products and so here we have a solution to the problem and not just putting a bandaid on it.
fixing problems
My daddy allways said to me that there is only one thing you can build from the the top down, and that is a well. I think this is the problem we are trying to fix it from the the top. Lets get good people working and lets build from the bottom up.
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