{"id":512,"date":"2009-03-24T14:12:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T21:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=512"},"modified":"2009-03-24T14:12:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T21:12:38","slug":"ask-the-president-update-heading-into-the-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2009\/03\/24\/ask-the-president-update-heading-into-the-home-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the President: update heading into the home stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3570\/3294736093_3aa0c5ab42.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"#p2 logo\" width=\"181\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ask the President (aka #askpres) has gotten brief mentions in the Politico, a second link from WashPo, and Jake Tapper tweeted about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Momentum is building!\u00c2\u00a0 And there are other projects going on to get citizen input into White House press conferences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper\/status\/1383619132\">Jake Tapper is soliciting questions on Twitter and will read them all<\/a>.  He&#8217;s aware of #askpres.<\/li>\n<li>Faiz Shakir is soliciting questions on his (registration-required) blog at Center for American Progress.  He did not appear to be aware of #askpres.\u00c2\u00a0 I tweeted to Alan Davidson, and per Ari&#8217;s request Harry Waisbren is trying to use his contacts at CAP to connect people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four of the questions on <a href=\"http:\/\/tweetleft.com\/askpres.php\">the list on the #p2&#8217;s wiki<\/a>* are in the top 12 on the Ask the President site, including the one I submitted on behalf of Get FISA Right (<a href=\"http:\/\/get-fisa-right.wetpaint.com\/page\/Ask+the+President\">what are your plans and timeframe to get FISA right<\/a>) at #8.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->My best estimate as of 6:00 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p><strong>There&#8217;s about a 90% chance that at least one citizen-suggested question will be asked in tonight&#8217;s conference<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope the reporters in the room choose some good ones!<\/p>\n<p>Either Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd or the Ask the President site will have the broadest participation of any of the online efforts this iteration<\/p>\n<p>The #p2 list on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper\/status\/1383619132\">http:\/\/p2pt0.wetpaint.com\/page\/Ask+the+President<\/a> will include some important topics not touched either on the Ask the President site or elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>So please keep tweeting &#8212; and keep voting.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re keeping our <a href=\"http:\/\/p2pt0.wetpaint.com\/page\/Tweeting+points+for+Ask+the+President\">Tweeting points<\/a> page updated with sample tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!\u00c2\u00a0 You can follow #askpres <a href=\"http:\/\/tweetleft.com\/askpres.php\">via Tweetleft<\/a>, Twitter search, and via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/p2pt0\">p2pt0<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>jon<\/p>\n<p>* if you&#8217;re curious about where the questions came from, there&#8217;s more information <a href=\"http:\/\/p2pt0.wetpaint.com\/page\/Ask+the+President\/revision\/25\">here<\/a> for now.<\/p>\n<p>Note: I updates the statistics and formatting about about 7:15 p.m. but didn&#8217;t change the estimates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask the President (aka #askpres) has gotten brief mentions in the Politico, a second link from WashPo, and Jake Tapper tweeted about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Momentum is building!\u00c2\u00a0 And there are other projects going on to get citizen input into White House press conferences: Jake Tapper is soliciting questions on Twitter and will read them all. 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