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Offline bijou

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'Overexposed' Obama begins to duck the WH press corps
« on: December 01, 2009, 02:05:20 PM »
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After months of what some critics called overexposure, President Obama has of late avoided questions from the White House press corps at large, closing the Oval Office to traditionally informal question-and-answer sessions with reporters and pulling back from the fast pace of news conferences he established when taking office.

The president, whose job-approval ratings have been on a steady slide, hasn't held a formal news conference in 19 weeks, since July 22. That one ended badly, when Mr. Obama waded into a racial controversy by saying a white police officer "acted stupidly" when he arrested a black Harvard professor. ...
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Re: 'Overexposed' Obama begins to duck the WH press corps
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2009, 02:19:43 PM »
poor TOTUS!! :rofl:
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Re: 'Overexposed' Obama begins to duck the WH press corps
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2009, 09:02:33 AM »
I wonder why he has never tried to avoid photo op's before now
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