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Obama's townHall meeting echo of Campaign!

hypocritexposer

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updated 2:01 p.m. MT, Thurs., March. 26, 2009

WASHINGTON - In an echo of his campaign, President Barack Obama tackled questions on education, jobs, autos — even whether legalizing marijuana could jolt the economy — at a first-of-its-kind Internet-era town hall at the White House on Thursday.

More personal than newsworthy
Questioned about growing unemployment, Obama said creating jobs was difficult during these hard economic times, and recommended that the work of the future should be in more high-paying, high-skill areas like clean energy technology.

Many of the lost jobs in recent years, Obama said, involved work that was done by people earning low wages and with limited work skills. He said it will take some time — perhaps through the rest of the year — before vigorous hiring resumes, and that might not happen until businesses see evidence the economy is rebounding.

The president was more personal than newsworthy, relating stories about how ovarian cancer claimed his mother at age 53 and about the nurses rather than physicians who did the bulk of the work when his daughter Sasha was hospitalized with a serious medical issue.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29892857/
 
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