From President John F. Kennedy:
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Taking President Kennedy’s words, one can clearly understand that, from Obama’s comments regarding our access to information, this government is afraid of its people. It has been 10 months since Barack Obama held a press conference. By comparison, on March 6, 1963, after being inoffice nearly 26 months, President Kennedy held his 51st press conference…. an average of nearly 2 per month!
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May 26, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Interested Bystander
Hey All,
And now Obama is having a Presser tomorrow at 12:45pm when everyone is working.
Will the press ask him about Van Jones?
Will the press ask him about his connections to ACORN and SEIU?
Will the press ask him why he was so critical of Bush on Katrina, which was a NATURAL event, but yet he won’t take responsibility for what is going on in the Gulf right now, which was a MAN MADE event?
Will the press ask him about why he allowed the “bailout” of Greece using money that WE have to borrow?
Will the press ask him about having a lifetime membership at Man’s Country in Chicago?
Will the press ask him if he actually read the health care bill he signed in to Law a few months ago? And will the press ask why he didn’t allow the legislation to sit on his desk for 5 days before he signed it?
Will the press ask him if before he made that statement on the Arizona Law, did he understand that FEDERAL LAW allows Federal Agents to stop anyone for any reason and ask for their papers?
Will the press ask him about requesting for 500 million dollars more for border patrol, when he said in his State of the Union speech that he was calling for a spending FREEZE?
Will the press ask him why Gitmo is still open WITHOUT a closing date?
Will the press ask Obama if the troop withdrawl from Iraq is on schedule, and will all combat troops be out by October, like he said AFTER he became President?
Will the press ask the him about why he is pushing the “roll back” of “Don’t ask don’t tell” BEFORE the military study, that HIS Party requested to be done, is completed?
I doubt the press will ask ANY of these questions, and this will be just another “campaign stop” for Obama where the questions are planted, and the answers carefully written out for Obama on his teleprompter.
This Adminstration is turning out to be TWENTY times worse than Jimmy Carter’s.
It will take us DECADES to reverse the problems Obama has brought to our Country.
May 26, 2010 at 6:52 pm
JAMES
This is a “news conference” for him to outline another policy change. I don’t think he’ll be taking too many questions, and if he does, he filibusters so long, who remembers the question.