I'm the POTUS, ask me anything

[Scuba]

in my email...


Good afternoon,

Today, I was in Michigan. Yesterday, it was Colorado and Nevada. Before that, it was Iowa and Arizona. The day after I delivered my State of the Union Address to Congress, I took off to connect with ordinary Americans around the country, talk more about our Blueprint for an America Built to Last, and get some feedback.

That's why I'm writing you.

On Monday we're going to do something a little different. At 5:30 p.m. ET, I'll walk into the Roosevelt Room across the hall from the Oval Office, take a seat, and kick-off the first-ever completely virtual town hall from the White House.

All week, people have been voting on questions and submitting their own, and a few of them will join me for a live chat.

What do you want to ask me?

This is going to be an exciting way to talk about the steps that we need to take together at this make-or-break moment for the middle class.

We have to foster a new era for American manufacturing -- rewarding companies for keeping jobs here at home and eliminating tax breaks for those who ship jobs overseas. We have to invest in homegrown energy in the United States -- starting with an all-out, all-of-the-above energy strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs. We have to build an economy that works for everyone -- where every hard working American gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and the rules are the same from top to bottom.

I'm ready to get started, but I know you have questions and ideas for ways to help. So let's hear them:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu-questions

Thanks,

President Barack Obama

[frazzled]

1. I have a question about this email

(and others over the last couple of weeks). I've either not been getting them at all, or getting them a day or two late. (I never got the "video" email from last Saturday, and others that people have posted here have shown up only later, if ever, in my inbox.) And I'm a monthly contributor to the campaign, who has been very active in the past. Could it be my email provider (yahoo) is suddenly sending these astray?

[monmouth]

2. Yahoo, in my experience, puts my democratic mail immediately into spam. I hate them but have

to go through them to get to my att.net. Check your spam, they're probably there.

[frazzled]

5. Definitely not in my spam

I always check it several times a day before deleting whatever is in there: and I check carefully, since once in a blue moon something related to my work accidentally ends up there.

I usually get Obama emails very regularly. It's only been in the past week or two that I've noticed this "gap."

[Shankapotomus]

3. Yahoo mail sucks

Whenever I sign up for something online that I'm supposed to get an immediate email confirmation, I go to check my yahoo email and it's never there. Yahoo has some kind of delivery issue. Sometimes takes days for an email to show up that should have taken seconds. I switched to gmail years ago but still check my yahoo email for old online accounts I have. I don't like yahoo at all.

[frazzled]

4. But I've never had this problem before

And I always get immediate confirmation when I order something online.

[monmouth]

6. Maybe reset your settings. That's scary, especially if work mail is involved..n/t