Media PO'd because of Obama's curt response to their questions. They have been hungry for specifics for the past 8 years and their hunger is becoming unbearable,it seems.
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Obama testing pundits' patience
Barack Obama's second televised presidential news conference saw him in combative mood, pundits and bloggers judged after his prime-time White House performance.
Online reaction was dominated by the president's minor spat with a TV reporter, his repeated calls for patience from the American people and the distinct lack of discussion of foreign affairs.
Mr Obama took 13 questions, almost exclusively focussed on domestic affairs. Most of those centred on the economic and financial crisis.
"This is a new world we're living in, after seven years of al-Qaeda, Iraq and Afghanistan," wrote Helene Cooper, live-blogging the news conference for
"Hard to imagine a Bush press conference focusing so singularly on the economy, but then, these are clearly different times."
In the week Mr Obama's first budget heads to Congress, and with concerns growing over the pace of US economic recovery, the president appears to have lost some of his inaugural sheen.
...contd at newsvote.bbc.co.uk |
