Will Obama Hold Another Press Conference?

No, "they" didn't; Lynn Sweet did. [transcript - http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/07/obama_july_22_2009_press_confe.html ]



It was supposed to be, and was, all about health care reform. But after 7 questions, where he gave long and wandering answers (a gimmick by Obama to slow the momentum of aggressive questioning), and with the reporters just warming up and starting to ask hard-hitting follow-up questions, Obama ended it by calling on his old buddy, Chicago Sun Times' Lynn Sweet, to help him change the subject with a question out of left field, having nothing to do with the job of the president.



Obama knew what the question was going to be, by the way. That he would encourage the question given how he RUNS from any discussion having to do with race, and dove into with a position when he hadn't even had the facts of the case straight (uncharacteristically sloppy for Obama) should tell you that he wanted the news cycle that had been all about Gates and race to continue, and not be about him on healthcare reform.
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