President Obama's first prime-time news conference:
He started the conference by saying "Good evening. Before I take your questions tonight, I’d like to speak briefly about the state of our economy and why I believe we need to put this recovery plan in motion as soon as possible. "
The president took the longest extended Q&A for more than 50 minutes after his opening statement. There were many news organization at the conference, some of them are AP, Reuters, CBS, NBC, Bloomberg, ABC, CNN, the New York Times, Fox, the Washington Post, Helen Thomas, Huffington Post, and NPR - 13 questions.
The questions were meant mostly at the TARP (5 questions), foreign policy (3), bipartisanship and lessons learned (2), Joe Biden (1), Alex Rodriguez (1), investigating the Bush administration (1).
At the beginning his answers were quite long but later the president picked up his speed and the press conference went on very fast. Obama has sought after new momentum in the incentive fight by returning to his Washington outsider roots. He mentioned the town of Elkhart at least a half dozen times to reinforce the idea that while Washington and the media focus on the Congressional sausage-making, ordinary Americans just want quick action.
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