RSSObama’s deck stacked in billed ‘open’ forum
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice | March 29, 2009
In an event billed as an opportunity for the American people to ask questions of an “open” and “transparent” administration, the only fully identified inquirers plucked from the audience, it turns out, were Obama campaign supporters.
At last week’s “Open for Questions” forum, the full transcript and video of which is posted on the White House website, Obama answered several questions selected from a reported 100,000 queries posted online. He also took a handful of questions, in town hall fashion, from those in attendance at the event.
But according to a Washington Post report, those audience members the president chose included “a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama’s campaign in 2008.”
After answering concerns submitted by online inquirers – including a question about legalization of marijuana that prompted the president to joke about the composition of the online community – Obama invited six audience members to pose questions.
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