A Pitch on Health Care To Virginia And Beyond
Obama Hears From Guests and Twitter
By Michael D. Shear and Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 2, 2009
In the stage-managed event, questions for Obama came from a live audience selected by the White House and the college, and from Internet questions chosen by the administration's new-media team. Of the seven questions the president answered, four were selected by his staff from videos submitted to the White House Web site or from those responding to a request for "tweets."
The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.
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