First question was from AP. If the AP reporter was green with pink polka dots, it would not matter, that person would get the first question.

Then the questions went to the networks, then cable outlets, and then print. The surprising question came when the Huffington Post was called on. Typically a foreign news outlet gets to ask a question, too.

There is an element of theater (organization, favoritism, etc.) in press conferences and this should not be dismissed.

I would like to see numbered chits handed out to the press as they enter the room and have the Pres randomly select numbers from a jar. He pulls the number and which ever presser has that number gets to ask a question.

Probably the best way to sate the egos of the press, and far more fair to the American people, knowing that ‘set-ups’ will not be performed.

OH, and in the future decline to be used as a prop.

Just a suggestion: Leave the racism to the liberals. They’re better at it.

Not sure what that means.

mulatto:
1 : the first-generation offspring of a black person and a white person
2 : a person of mixed white and black ancestry

That is indeed Barack Obama’s heritage. There’s nothing racist meant nor implied.

Yes, that is correct, although the word has fallen out of use (as have a couple of other technical terms denoting percentage). But continuing to harp on his race–or races–doesn’t improve the conversation. And, the way Jim Crow laws were written, any drop of non-white blood made the person colored in the South.

The point has been made: I suggest it be dropped while we focus on his policies that endanger our beloved Republic.

CUZ HE’S BLACK????? Like I joke with one of my prominent black Hollywood friends, who in public is all African-American from the hood….

“You’re more white than I am”

“This was like Reagan, when he’d put all the blacks up front”

OUCH!

Right on, #54 graysonret. Obama said, “They will try to bamboozle you, and hoodwink you, run the okey-doke on you.”

Of course, that doesn’t eliminate the possibility that HE would do some of his own bamboozling.