Obama Town Hall

Barack Obama Promotes Jobs Plan At LinkedIn Town Hall

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 11.26.2011

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Inviting questions, President Barack Obama got one he was happy to answer. "Would you please raise my taxes?" one man a...

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GOP Congressman Slams Obama Bus Tour, Wants To 'Co-Host' Town Hall Meeting With President

Posted 10.17.2011

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President Obama's Midwestern bus tour stopped at a county fair in northwestern Illinois Wednesday morning, and as he heads south for two town hall mee...

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Obama Holds Town Hall Meetings As Bus Tour Rolls On

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 10.17.2011

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ALPHA, Ill. — Confronting the most public anxiety yet of his Midwestern tour, President Barack Obama sought Wednesday to reassure an audience in...

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Obama Takes His Case To The American People At Town Hall

AP | By MARK S. SMITH | Posted 09.21.2011

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Less than two weeks away from the deadline for an unprecedented government default, President Barack Obama sought Friday to press...

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Obama To Host First Twitter Town Hall Meeting

Posted 08.30.2011

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Twitter, together with the White House, announced Thursday morning that President Obama will be hosting a town hall meeting on Twitter. The town ha...

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Obama: Standardized Tests Often Punitive

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.28.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday that students should take fewer standardized tests and school performance should be measured in ...

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Obama Puts The Spotlight On Hispanic Education With Online Town Hall

Posted 05.25.2011

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On the U.S. Department of Education's blog, the White House announced that President Obama will coordinate with Spanish-language media company Univisi...

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MTV Asks Obama 'Town Hall' Participants For 'Light' Questions

AMERICABlog | Nick Seaver | Posted 05.25.2011

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After asking what topics I was personally interested in, they asked what question I'd want to ask President Obama if I were in a room with him. I gave...

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Obama To Take First-Ever Presidential Question Via Skype

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Continuing his efforts to chart new territory with respect to the intersection of politics and technology, President Obama is set to take what appears...

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Of Politics and Piñatas

Anthony Scaramucci | Posted 05.25.2011

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At Obama's Town Hall meeting recently, I asked the President when he was going to "stop whacking Wall Street like a piñata?" Critics took the comment and ran with it, but they missed the point entirely.

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Obama Makes Health Care Push At Nevada Town Hall

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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HENDERSON, Nev. — Days before hosting an intensive health care summit with both Republicans and Democrats, President Barack Obama made a fervent...

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Obama Answering Lots Of Questions, But Not From Press

The New York Times | PETER BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the last two weeks, President Obama has taken questions from unemployed workers in Ohio, students in Florida and a cancer survivor in New Hampshi...

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Obama Asked Why US Doesn't Condemn Israeli Human Rights Abuses (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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During President Obama's town hall this afternoon in Tampa, Florida, a young woman asked a pointed question about Israel and human rights that stirred...

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Elyria, Ohio Used As Backdrop Of Obama Town Hall Speech

Posted 05.25.2011

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Elyria, Ohio, a city with a population of 55,000 and just outside of Cleveland, was the scene of President Barack Obama's Town Hall address today abou...

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Obama's China Town Hall: Handshakes And Vetted Questions

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was a Town Hall, but this time Barack Obama was not in Iowa or New Hampshire. There were no hay bales, no bunting, and no activists with questions ...

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Obama Asked "Why Do People Hate You?" By Fourth Grader (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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At a town hall meeting in New Orleans Thursday, fourth-grader Terrence Scott earnestly asked the question that has probably been on many people's mind...

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Gov 2.0: How The Internet Is Redefining Democracy

New York TImes | Posted 05.25.2011

There is no turning back the clock. We now have more public opinion exerting pressure on politics than ever before. The question is how it may be chan...

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Anti-Abortion Activist Randall Terry Thrown Out Of Health Care Town Hall (VIDEO)

HuffPost's Eyes & Ears | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Representative Jim Moran fell victim to a vigorous maligning from out of town teabaggers last night during his town hall in Reston, VA. Howard Dean w...

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Illegal Immigrants As Less Than Dogs

Yuna Shin | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Last week outside President Obama's town hall meeting in New Hampshire, one protester shouted," Eviatar tells us, "'We don't need illegals,' adding, 'Send 'em back with a bullet in the head.'"

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To Those Who Condone "Sieg Heil" Being Shouted at a Jew

Paul Korda | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two old law school buddies can no longer find any common political ground to stand on.

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Obama's Strategy Session Draws 270k, Dems Claim Good Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The headlines lately are all about President Obama's very bad summer, but his supporters argue that this past week was a good one for the White House....

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GOP Risks Alienating Latinos By Scapegoating Immigrants in Health Care Debate

The Washington Independent | DAPHNE EVIATAR | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a leading immigration restrictionist group today opens a conference highlighting the costs of immigrants to the nation's health care system, critic...

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Have Patience: Republicans Are Working Their Way Through the Five Stages of Grieving

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 05.25.2011

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Suffering from a series of unexpected and unexplainable defeats, Republicans are likely to go off on a prolonged period of silence and eventually die for lack of political support.

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Aug. 17, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 05.25.2011

Town hall meetings on health care reform....Debate or Debacle? Media make sure squeakiest wheels get the grease.

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Obama Questioner Was A Staffer For A GOP State Senator

ColoradoPols.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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..."It's good to see a young person who's very engaged and confident challenging the President to a Oxford-style debate, I think this is good," he sai...

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