It is extremely telling that at Obama’s first press conference, the questioners were pre-selected. The way to read that decision is that the president and his handlers don’t want any more “Joe the Plumber” blunders. For all his vaunted intellectuality, Obama is not good at handling challenging questions. (When has he ever had to?) By carefully controlling press conferences, they want to avoid awkward stammering in the face of questions that he doesn’t know how to answer.
Picking up on that, columnist Larry Elder here poses seven questions he’d like to have the president answer.
I’ll add one of my own: What actions is the administration taking to prevent the recurrence of damaging economic bubbles in the future?
Or how about this? Most economists foresee rapidly increasing inflation in the years to come; how will your administration deal with that? Price controls?
