Obama Town Hall: President expected to land in Long Beach at 3:05 p.m. for OC event
Today, starting around 3:15 p.m., we will be live-blogging President Obama's town hall meeting that will take place at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. The actual town hall is slated to start at 4 p.m. and is to last for about an hour and 25 minutes, according to the official White House schedule, which has built in time for handshaking along a rope line.
Obama, who strongly defended his Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, on the White House lawn before leaving for California, is expected to focus on his commitment to fixing the economic mess.
He also used the occasion of his remarks this morning to endorse the anger that seems to be reaching a boiling point toward AIG, the monumentally indebted insurance giant that took government billions and managed to find a nice chunk for retention bonuses for its executives.
Here's the video from our friends at Politico:
Stay tuned ...
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Bravo Mr.President BAM!That's exactly our point here in The Netherlands,during the 8 years of Bush and Chenney
AIG were already paying big bonuses to their employers,this is maybe one of the reasons why AIG went to his knees!!So why the outburst now??These bonuses were also payed during Bush's term in office that AIG went bankrupt!!!Hello Uncle Sam,we just adore President Obama more and more for his cleaning this mess he inherited.We must give the President team all the time they need to do their job and please no more Limbaugh's and Chenney's.Enough is enough,we love America to succeed,all our family lives in America!!!
From a Dutch loving Americans in The Netherlands.
Posted by: Caroline Bautista | March 19, 2009 at 04:02 AM