President Obama Participates in a Fireside Hangout on Google+ for Feb. 14, 2013 (VIDEO)

The complete Univision Forum featuring President Barack Obama (VIDEO)

The Google Hangout with President Obama (VIDEO)

The President's LinkedIn Town Hall for Sept. 26, 2011 (VIDEO)

The President's Town Hall from Alpha, Illinois (VIDEO)

The President's Town Hall from Atkinson, Illinois (VIDEO)

The President's Town Hall from Decorah, IA...now with Teabagger confrontation! (VIDEO)

For those of you with concerns about the President's strategy, how he handles negotiations, etc., the first two questions cover that ground pretty nicely.

And in case you're curious about the President's confrontation there toward the end with the Teabagger nation, it is here...and requires a strong stomach.

The President's Town Hall in Cannon Falls, MN (VIDEO)

The President's Town Hall at University of Maryland, College Park (VIDEO)

If you're going to hold a relatively impromptu Town Hall, might as well be right down the street in College Park, Maryland where I was raised, and where I went to College.  GO TERPS!


(More importantly, Go Terps, and try not to get any Scholarships voided.)



But Ritchie Coliseum?  Seriously?  We couldn't do better for our President than that rat-trap?  We couldn't get him into the Comcast Center (where he has spoken before)?  What?  Cole Field House isn't still standing?

You'll also note that the first question, in fact, a lot of the questions, had nothing to do with the Debt Ceiling.

The President's Town Hall on the Economy from CBS News (VIDEO)

The President's Town Hall at Annandale, VA. (VIDEO)

Fingers crossed I'll be attending something like this Tomorrow:

The President's Town Hall Meeting on Energy and the possible Shutdown from Fairless Hills, PA (VIDEO)

Haven't gotten one of these in a while...

The President's discussion with Liberal Bloggers

I mentioned the chat President Obama had with Liberal Bloggers yesterday (same day as his Daily Show appearance), but I hadn't found the audio or video of that event.

And I still haven't.

What I did find was a transcript of the discussion, posted on Eschaton.  You can get there by clicking here.

President Obama's Backyard Discussion on Women and the Economy (IVDEO)

President Obama holds a discussion on ensuring economic stability and opportunity for women in the backyard of the Foss family in Seattle, WA. October 21, 2010.



Highlighting a portion of his talk, that was aimed right at the Tea Party:

I think people have a legitimate concern, a legitimate worry, as to what are we doing to start -- now that we’re out of the immediate crisis but we’re only experiencing sluggish job growth at this point and sluggish economic growth -- how do we get back to a point where we’re living within our means? That’s an entirely legitimate concern. It’s a concern that I have. And we’re going to have to have a serious debate over the next several years about how to do it.

The problem I have with the argument the way it’s playing out right now in the country is that there’s a suggestion on the other side that somehow the problem with our debt and our deficits all arose magically the minute I took office, whereas in fact when I arrived at the White House I was inheriting a $1.3 trillion deficit. We had taken record surpluses last time there was a Democratic President, and over the course of a decade moved to record deficits.

The big problems we have in terms of debt and deficits have to do with structural gaps between the amount of money we’re taking in and the amount of money we’re spending. And if we’re going to get serious about the deficit, then we’re going to have to look at everything: entitlements, defense spending, revenues. How do all those things fit together so that we can have a sustainable budget that invests in the things that we absolutely need for our long-term future, and we stop funding some things that are nice to have but we can’t afford.

And that’s going to be a tough conversation -- which is -- it’s interesting now when you listen to the Republicans talk about out-of-control government spending, and then you ask them, well, what would you cut, and there’s this deafening silence. And they’ll say things like, well, we’ll roll back health care -- except it turns out that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the health care bill is actually going to reduce our deficit by over a trillion dollars over the next 20 years. So that would add to the deficit.

Then they’ll say, well, we’ll pull back the unused portion of the stimulus. Well, first of all, that’s -- most of it has already been spent and a big chunk of what hasn’t been spent are actually tax cuts, which they say they’re for.

And then they’ll say, well, we’ll roll back spending back to 2008 levels, without being clear that that would mean, for example, a 20 percent cut in education spending.

So one of the things that I think as voters everybody here should be doing is constantly asking people, when you say you want to get the budget under control, what exactly do you mean? What exactly are you going to do? And if they can’t answer the question then it means they’re not serious about it.

In case you wanted a list of what the Obama Administration has done to create jobs (VIDEO)

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First question was money. Direct. Straight on. Well asked. Well answered.

The complete MTV Networks' Conversation wtih President Obama (VIDEO)

First, let's start with MTV Host Sway's Interview, previewing the Town Hall with Lawrence O'Donnell last night on The Last Word:



Sway seemed a little more down than necessary. Plus, how do we know the young people aren't going to turn out for the President. After all, the pollsters aren't screening people with cell-phones.

Anyway, here goes. It's thirteen parts, each part running 3-8 minutes each. It's a lot, but covers just an hour of time.

Part 1, The Opening, with a Question from a Republican on Health Care and Bi-partisanship:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

Part 2, a slightly snotty question on Job Losses and spending:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

Part 3, from a D.C. Student from Montgomery College:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

Part 4, a Junior from Maryland asks about Cyberbullying:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

Part 5, a faculty member from Howard University on Don't Ask, Don't Tell:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

Once again, memo to the Jane Hamsher's of the world: DADT is Law. The President cannot unilaterally end DADT.  I'm glad the President led with this.


Part 6, the Twitterverse asks Is being Gay a Choice?:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

Part 7, from a Senior at G.W. about Social Security, and a bonus Tea Party question:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

And the President got in another (subtle) shot at the Chamber of Commerce and their Foreign Money.


Part 8, from a young producer of a Conservative Talk Show:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

Whenever they say it's not about race...


Part 9, from a Grad Student at Johns Hopkins on race relations, why are they getting worse:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

Part 10, the Tweetverse asks about a possible War in Sudan:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

Part 11, a junior from Georgetown University, an immigrant from Cuba, asking about Immigration and the DREAM Act:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

How will your Administration take steps to get this legislation passed? Again with the "just be tougher" bull@#$%??  Congress is the most unpopular part of Government, yet it's only the President's fault when something doesn't pass?

That being said, the President is way more optimistic than I am about getting it passed.


Part 12, on Environmental Justice, focusing on post-Katrina New Orleans:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

Part 13, Greatest Hopes and Greatest Fears from the Twitterverse:

A Conversation with President Obama on MTV

The President's Backyard Town-Hall in Richmond, VA (VIDEO)

And finally, we end today's Presidential Backyard tour in Richmond, VA.

Man, I want a ticket to one of these.

The President's Backyard Town-Hall in Des Moines, IA (VIDEO)

Same deal.  The President talking the Economy and taking questions from a Backyard in Des Moines.  I seem to recall the President does very well in Iowa.

The President's Backyard Town-Hall in Albuquerque, N.M. (VIDEO)

I've been waiting for these videos for a couple of days (geesh, White House...took you long enough. What've have you been doin'? Running the country or something?)

I'm going to put these videos up over the next hour or so, and start watching them. As I recall, this was the Mini Town-Hall where the President was asked why he was a Christian (at about the 35:30 mark).

The President's Conference Call with Student-Journalists (AUDIO)

Right around noon today the President took some time for a conference call with college and university student-journalists. He explained that part of the reason he was reaching out was to keep them engaged with their democracy:



Bear in mind there ain't a lot of video here. It's all audio, intersperse with photos of the President.