President Obama's live Online Town Hall Meeting

[BirminghamExaminer]

Excerpt from article:

A few days ago, President Obama asked for people to submit questions to the WhiteHouse.gov website and vote on the best submitted questions in preparation for the first ever live, online Town Hall meeting.

The President took questions from the most popularly voted on questions submitted online as well as questions from a live audience.

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President Obama fielded a question from a nurse who had concerns about pay and nursing shortages. The President related that when his daughters were born, and when one of them was sick, it was the nurses who spent the most time with his daughters. Like many parents, he remembered that the doctor spent 15 minutes with the patient while the nurses spent hours with them and did most of the work. Obama praised nurses for the work that they do and he brought up an interesting point about nursing shortages that I haven't heard before. President Obama said that professors who teach nursing often get paid less than nurses themselves and this is creating a 'bottleneck' impeding the success of teaching and creating new nurses.

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Topics covered during the Town Hall meeting included health insurance, the auto industry, veteran's care, and education. One woman told the President that she has been working in the auto industry for 34 years and wanted to know if there was hope for her job and the jobs of others in the auto industry. President Obama said that he can't go into any details on the auto industry because he plans to present a detailed plan about how to help the auto industry survive in the next few days. The President did however, emphasize that we cannot allow American automakers to fail.

Article contains pictures of the meeting as well as a short video about the marijuana question.

[liberal N proud]

1. Nothing about marijuana?

You would think that was the only topic by the threads on this board today

[BirminghamExaminer]

2. Yeah, he answered that question. n/t

[ejpoeta]

3. it was kind of funny when there were all those marijuana questions. LOL!!

and his response was funny, too.

[BirminghamExaminer]

4. Honestly I think there's something to be said

for legalizing what may be America's number 1 cash crop but I understand why the President feel he could take THAT on on top of everything else he's dealing with when trying to battle the numskull GOP to get anything done at all.

[ejpoeta]

5. oh i agree. i think legalizing marijuana would do a couple of things.

it would transfer users to a different category. smokers who want to quit can get help, sometimes paid for by their insurance companies. better that than jail, i say. plus you can tax it. but i just thought it was funny the amount of questions i saw on that topic.

[jkirch]

8. Users don't need help to quit.

[roody]

10. Health "insurance" should already be covering "drug" addiction.

[yurbud]

6. the top questions were all more thoughtful than MSM crapfests--nobody asked about smiling

[BirminghamExaminer]

7. I know, I love it. I hope that he will continue to do these

online town hall meetings and let the real people ask the real questions. Apparently TV journalists and others I'm afraid, forgot how to be journalists during the Bushgestapo years.

[yurbud]

9. they haven't forgotten. they do what they are paid to do--make politics look inane and pointless

so we go back to sleep and the corporations can have their way with our elected ''representatives.''