8 yrs ago today, Obama held 90 min televised Q&A on healthcare
The current so-called president is so incapable of facing anything like that, it's distressing. All he can do is fire off absurd and incoherent tweets.
But 8 years ago:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/story?id=7920012&page=1
..."SAWYER: The president has said it's the ticking time bomb at the center of the American economy, and so we have gathered 164 people in the East Room of the White House tonight. They're from all over the country, all walks of life, on the front lines of health care in America. They are doctors, businessmen, patients, Republicans, Democrats, independents. And we know we can't cover every question tonight, but we're going to get the conversation started.
GIBSON: They will be questioning the president, as will we. And we think by the end of the evening, you will have a pretty good sense of what the parameters of this debate are, just what's at stake for each of you and for the country as a whole, because this will be discussed, as
we said, all through the summer in the Congress. It will be discussed, I think, also in your living room. Every family, I think, will be debating this. So with that as preface, we want to thank the president for giving us his parlor and his living room tonight to do this broadcast.
OBAMA: Thank you so much, Charlie.
GIBSON: Mr. President, I think this could be an interesting evening.
OBAMA: Thank you so much, Diane.
SAWYER: Mr. President, thank you.
OBAMA: Grateful to have you.
SAWYER: And while we head into the East Room, we're going to have
the audience waiting for us there. Dr. Tim Johnson, who's our medical editor, is going to give everyone a sense of some the key questions. We're heading to the East Room."....(transcript at link)
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