This is the most persuasive Press Conference I have ever seen

[ThomWV]

If you aren't watching this you should be and if you can't now take a look at it on C-span later tonight.

[peacetalksforall]

1. It's incredible, even I understand it. Everyone is being civil. Intelligent people

cannot complain - this is real dialogue. There is respect in the room. So far.

Our President is G O O D!

[NNN0LHI]

2. Adults are back in charge

[unc70]

3. Much too long-winded

We were just saying that the long rambling answers seemed ineffective for this type forum. After a couple of minutes one forgets the question. He should ATP then and not dilute his response

[bigtree]

5. that desire for brevity is a reflection of the dumbing down Bush' accustomed us to

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Freedom, Iraq, 911, Free Market, tax cuts, nuclear

There........ is that better?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. Funny

to me, he is doing an excellent job, citing examples and being very honest about what is happening. To me, it is like entering a college classroom rather than entering the kindergarten class.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. The Professor is speaking......

If you every watched him teach.

[malaise]

7. He's speaking to his constituents

in simple language. Only the best professors master that art.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. I've had a few that did that

and tried to master it myself with my teaching.

He is talking to adults not 8th graders like Bush did.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. You can tell that Obama was a great teacher

He is doing a wonderful job explaining intricate problems in terms that anyone can understand, using specific examples. He's using those examples to show that his suggestions for spending aren't pork--take for example the school built in the 1850s. And I love how he tells, again and again, that the Republicans are responsible for this mess--yet in a formal, factual, almost polite way.

[Greybnk48]

9. this is soooo sophisticated compared to what we have been conditioned

to expect it's almost jolting. I love it!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. I think he will start doing these very often

oh like FDR, splain to people what he's doing and why.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Asshole from ABC.......... Obama laughs

this guy is a big republican news guy. Slams Joe.