No Regular Question Time
Says the Obama White House.
Despite the popularity of Obama’s appearance at the Republican retreat last week, and a blogger call to instantiate it as a new regular feature of White House communications, the White House says no. They do have a point. One imagines that what was neat about it on Friday—not really an open exchange of ideas, but at least in the same genus as one—would be quickly sucked out the moment planning was involved and we’d be left with a sort of combination of the Presidential Debates and the State of the Union, namely, a platitude-fest that just happens to have a Q & A format.