Obama China Town Hall: Select Audience, Easy Questions (Nothing new..)

Time.com on Yahoo ^ | 11/16/09 | Michael Scherer

[NormsRevenge]

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 about universal health care, clean coal or legalizing marijuana. This forum, after all, was being held in a nation controlled by the Communist Party.

Instead of being greeted by voters mulling their options, Obama on Monday met with several hundred well-dressed, attentive and relentlessly on-message students, handpicked by Chinese authorities for the occasion. They listened attentively, nodding in agreement at some of his answers and laughing at his jokes. Most of their questions were something less than challenging. "What measures will you take to deepen this close relationship between cities of the United States and China?" asked the first questioner, a young woman whom Obama picked randomly from the crowd. "What's the main reason that you were honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace?" asked another. A third followed up on the Nobel Prize line of inquiry. "What's your university/college education that brings you to get such kind of prizes?" ..

It was the first time a U.S. President had ever hosted a town hall in the Communist Party–controlled state, and the terms of the event were carefully negotiated between diplomats from both countries. The selection of the audience aside, Chinese authorities also picked three questions that had been submitted over the Internet - including one that was sharply critical of U.S. support for the Taiwanese military. U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman read an additional question, which the White House said had been randomly selected from a group of online submissions acquired by the U.S. government.

[NormsRevenge]

maybe he wants Mao's old job..

[NormsRevenge]

I’m sure he felt right at home at a Communist Party function..

[ronnie raygun]

Did he push for healthcare in the US?

[NormsRevenge]

US President Barack Obama (L) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao during the photo session in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Singapore on November 14. News photos of President Barack Obama bowing to Japan's emperor have incensed critics here, who said the US leader should stand tall when representing America overseas. (AFP/Pool/File)

[NoLibZone]

Nice to see Dems have restarted the Town Halls.

[NormsRevenge]

US President Barack Obama (R) greets guests after a town hall meeting with future Chinese leaders at the Museum of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China. The number of foreigners enrolled at US universities shot to a record high in the last academic year fueled by an influx of Chinese students, an educators' group said Monday. (AFP/File/Saul Loeb)

[GI Joe Fan]

Ah, so Raila Odinga's favorite cousin staged another "open" townhall meeting, eh?

It's open to nothing but PLANTS and softball questions, as far as the eye can see!

[Jeff Head]

Obama is in the PRC polishing up on and honing his skills for American Town Halls he intends to hold, and wants the DNC to hold.

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[Crim]

LOL...some of those “students” are in their 40’s...

[theDentist]

“Meester Pres dent, Boxers, breefs?”

[NoLibZone]

[a fool in paradise]

[edge10]

Unplanned question from audience: “Why are those evil tea-baggers against your well defined plan of hope and change?”

[GI Joe Fan]

That photo reminds me of the propaganda photos that the North Korean government pushes.

You know the kind where the authorities threaten arrests, beatings, imprisonment and executions if everyone isn't smiling and cheering at all times?

[tnlibertarian]

US President Barack Obama (R)

Great, now Newt is going to tell us to vote for Obama!

[pgkdan]

What the hell is he wearing?

[Baladas]

The ACORN and the SEIU know no boundaries.

[a fool in paradise]

Mao's little red coat:

Chinese Detain CNN Reporter for Holding Up 'Oba Mao' T-Shirt on TV (Newsbusters ^ | November 16, 2009 | Tim Graham)

[WestwardHo]

I watched this thing because I was captivated by the students dress, maturity, and decorum.
Yeah, “Obama received multiple rounds of applause, "when he spoke of the importance of education for women”, you can multiply 2or3 people who applauded a couple times. When he entered the auditorium students were instructed to give him a warm round of applause which was mechanical and short. The students soon appeared bored, some removed their headsets, and the smiles began to fade.
If the press calls the questions fluff, it better demonstrates Obama is 1 inch thick and a mile wide even when answering simple questions. He totally ignored two questions, instead, rapsidizing about global warming. All of his answers were obscucations, and verbal flatulence, and of course, all about him. A normal person would die of shame at making such an ignorant ass of himself before the world. But, Obama is not normal, and too evil to feel shame. Totally embarrassing that this is the best America can produce for President.

[pgkdan]

That's what I thought.
head hanging in shame...