in terms of press reception.

Press conferences with Presidents, for almost as long as I can remember, were nonsensical affairs, in which non-questions got non-answers.

Obama was confronted, and he did his best to respond (with a modicum of sense), though I hardly agreed with all his answers.

Will future Republican Presidents be grilled in this way? I hope so...

By the way, in case anyone noticed my glaring absence, it is because I have had extremely limited access to the Internet lately. Losing my job has not helped matters. It has been frustrating not being able to vent my spleen here (though possibly I am the only one who misses this, of course).

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