Thread: President Obama Q&A at the GOP House Issues Conference

President Obama Takes Questions at GOP House Issues Conference | The White House

Streaming video. The Q&A starts at 19:00 and the mic problem gets fixed during the first question (it starts out faint and almost inaudible). The transcript is linked on that page off to the side if you just want to read it.

IMHO, I'd say that Obama won that round clearly. It should be noted that the Q&A was without teleprompters and apparently Fox News cut away from the session twenty minutes before it ended.

Thoughts and comments?

Fox News cut before the end because there were no news to report at the event

nah, it was because they didn't give him teleprompters and none of the republicans had the balls to call him socialist to his face, all of them are just barry-lite (but don't ask chris matthews what that means ).


don't know about winning, in the ideal case both sides should be losing something and, to use the beloved phrase, the 'american people' winning, but that's not going to be clear for few months.
i'm pretty cynical, so my money is on election politics trumps everything, nothing's gonna change and the question is back to the tea.

when did he respond to congressman Ryan and his question about the large increase in spending?
my understanding is if the spending freeze does not take place, the new congress in 2011 can repeal the increases. but if the freeze takes place the new congress can't repeal the increase. therefore setting up a "shell game" by saying there is a freeze, when in reality there is a massive increase from Obama.
one thing more he has to quit blaming Bush for this increase. it was his increase after he took office. he needs to start taking credit for the economy and spending since he has been in office for over a year now.

Originally Posted by 59caddy

when did he respond to congressman Ryan and his question about the large increase in spending?
my understanding is if the spending freeze does not take place, the new congress in 2011 can repeal the increases. but if the freeze takes place the new congress can't repeal the increase. therefore setting up a "shell game" by saying there is a freeze, when in reality there is a massive increase from Obama.
one thing more he has to quit blaming Bush for this increase. it was his increase after he took office. he needs to start taking credit for the economy and spending since he has been in office for over a year now.

He did answer the initial questions; there were mandatory increases and then he had to do something to help the economy. I didn't agree with any of the bailouts, but it's hard to argue against the various economists who said that things would get worse without them.

He didn't mention Bush at all. Someone tried to pin the unemployment rate on his administration and he corrected them by saying that crap was worse than anyone expected and that people were losing jobs in the hundreds-of-thousands per month before he even had a chance to do anything. Don't mistake the facts of what he inherited with blaming Bush.

IMHO, the GOP blew a golden opportunity with this.

Originally Posted by commiecat

He did answer the initial questions; there were mandatory increases and then he had to do something to help the economy. I didn't agree with any of the bailouts, but it's hard to argue against the various economists who said that things would get worse without them.


IMHO, the GOP blew a golden opportunity with this.

i do not see where he addressed the 84 percent increases by him and his administration. these were not automatic increases. there have never been 84 percent increases that are on auto.