**Heads Up: PE Obama's Economic Press Conference Live from Chicago!**

[Clio the Leo]

Sigh .... I've missed these...

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream3

http://www.cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx

[gblady]

1. msnbc....

is waiting for him to take the stage...
I, too, miss seeing him on a regular basis...

[Political_Junkie]

2. .

Thanks for the heads up.

[Clio the Leo]

3. Woohoo! There was Gibbs!

.... holding a GREEN folder ..... I repeat a GREEN folder. :)

[Nite Owl]

4. Bloomberg is carrying it also

www.bloomberg.com
then go to resorces, tv.

[Clio the Leo]

5. There he is! NT

[nc4bo]

6. So good to see him. He's been so low key lately and I'm missing the GE appearances ;) nt

[crispini]

7. Nice to see Obama.

Damn, now HE looks like a President.

[Clio the Leo]

8. I hate it when he points out things will be hard.....

... I want him to say, "Everyone chill out! I got this!" lol

[Blu Dahlia]

9. I love my new president

:loveya:

:patriot:

[Smuckies]

10. thanks

[crispini]

11. I bet the market will be happy.

The market just wants SOMEONE to be in charge, and Obama looks like he's in charge. :D

[AlCzervik]

12. looks like a good and diverse team. Ok Bush should just go on vacation now and

not come back.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. The greatest Christmas gift of all.

[Max_powers94]

14. Melody is cute

[RepublicanElephant]

15. dow up almost 300 points so far. nt

[Clio the Leo]

18. Well he made my computer crash!

And I lost the first part of his speech I was recording.

Ehh, it was probably a right-wing Gremlin.

[GreenFiles]

16. Watching Obama speak makes me feel weird....

I forgot what it was like to have a president who actually knows how to give a press conference.

It's a strange sensation!

[Clio the Leo]

20. Sends a tingle up your leg, dont it? lol NT

[gblady]

17. the much debated tax ?

from yesterday was addressed....
Barack said whether by repeal or by expiration...
would be up to the recommendation of his advisory team.
His focus was on the 95% that will get tax cuts.

[crispini]

19. Damn, he's actually taking all these questions! Look at that.

Completely unlike the Shrubinator. What a breath of fresh air.

[Clio the Leo]

22. Remember when he received criticism during that forum....

.... with McCain with ... oh, what's his name, that preacher dude. Some said his answers were too long and intellectual?

I KNEW if we could make it past September and October we'd be ok. I knew that "flaw" would prove to be a blessing.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

21. It is SO refreashing to hear him take questions, focus on the MIDDLE class, and reiterate that the

rich CAN afford to pay more.

[ellacott]

23. Do you thik he'll take a Question from Fox?

I hope he doesn't.

[DireStrike]

31. Did he, in the end?

I'm not familiar enough with the reporters to say.

[ellacott]

32. I'm not that familiar either

I'm going to check later and see if anyone reports on this.

[Clio the Leo]

24. "Pony up?"

Did he just say "pony"!!!

WE'RE ALL GETTING PONIES!!! I KNEW IT!!! WOOHOO!!!!

[tilsammans]

25. Well informed, articulate, polite, thoughtful

It's been too long since we've had a president like that.

:kick:

[BuelahWitch]

26. He's got the right idea

Put the money in the hands of the people. Take care of Main Street and that will take care of Wall street. The US worker/middle class keeps the economy humming, but if we have no jobs there's not a whole lot we can do.

[Gin]

28. did Citigroup offer a plan for their bailout?

[Clio the Leo]

27. Hey! Home come they didn't play "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" at the end? :-) NT

[Clio the Leo]

29. And you know what else is cool?

isn't it typical for the President or whomever is giving the press conference to have an aide announce when the thing is over? "Thank you!" someone will shout from the side and the President will leave?

Did you hear Gibbs doing that? Nope. Did we hear Obama say, "I'm gonna take one more question"? Yep.

[ellacott]

35. I know, I was also waiting for them to fade into Brooks and Dunn

Only in America.............

[Clio the Leo]

36. Nah, I never liked that one.

But he should SERIOUSLY have Stevie Wonder follow him wherever he goes.

Of course MY official transition theme song is "Hold On, I'm Comin'" byt Sam and Dave. :)

[ellacott]

37. I just got used to hearing it

That would be a good skit showing Stevie following him around. I liked the Sam and Dave song. My favorite was, There's Hope by India.Arie.

[DireStrike]

30. I liked his answer about the tax cut repeal.

It bodes well that he didn't simply say "yes, I will let the tax cuts expire" as he had done a few times in his campaign.

[gratefultobelib]

33. I can't believe I got teary-eyed over a press conference!!

[Vinca]

34. What a pleasure it was to listen to that news conference.

I couldn't get over the use of complete sentences! Suddenly it sounds as if adults are in charge again.