Obama and Huffington Post Setup

As we all know by now President Obama is really good giving speeches but did you know that he is equally bad at giving press conferences. Yesterday, during a press conference at the White House the President and the Huffington Post put on a dog and pony show for the American people. Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NBj-vpDoe4 When asked if the question was preplanned Deputy press secretary Bill Burton responded: "We did reach out to him prior to press conference to tell him that we had been paying attention to what he had been doing on Iran and there was a chance that he’d be called on. And, he ended up asking the toughest question that the President took on Iran. In the absence of an Iranian press corps in Washington, it was an innovative way to get a question directly from an Iranian." The toughest question for the President was the one that was preplanned. I thought he was a Harvard Law graduate and was supposed to be our new smarter President. Check out more about the incident at Michael Calderone's blog at politico. http://tiny.cc/ZqIH2