President Obama hosts live Twitter Town Hall Today, President Obama hosted the first ever live White House Twitter town hall. People from around the globe could sign up at #AskObama with questions on the economy, jobs, and education. Top topics discussed in the White House Twitter Town Hall. Photo/CD Brown. There were two that caught the attention of both the president and us here at Politics. On Point. One question came in from a 'Will Smith' (no, not that one) that asked the president (1) what mistakes had he made handling the recession, and (2) what would he have done differently? President Obama replied, "One would have been to explain to the American people that it was going to take a while for us to get out of this. I think even I did not realize the magnitude, because most economists didn’t realize the magnitude, of the recession until fairly far into it, maybe two or three months into my presidency where we started realizing that we had lost ...
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