Feb 24 2009
What Did he Ask Obama?
Barack Obama just finished delivering his address to the joint session of Congress . Obama sounded optimistic as he outlined his plan to rebuild health care, education, and the economy. Immediately after his speech, Obama began to wander around the spectator area, where politicians from both parties were waiting to personally greet the President.
As the television cameras continued to role, Democratic Congressman, Dennis Kucinich, confronted Obama, as the President was signing what seemed to be a plethora of paper-back programs of his speech. The audio managed to pick up Kucinich’s voice as he spoke, but it was difficult to comprehend his words. Nonetheless, Obama proceeded without much eye contact or a verbal response, which may suggest that Obama had little interest towards whatever Kucinich was saying.
I’m merely speculating, but to me, it seemed like he was asking the President a question. Knowing Kucinich, he may have quite possibly asked, “why didn’t you mention NAFTA?” or “what about universal single-payer health care, like all the other western democracies?” Seeing that the media rarely pays any attention to the genuine politician, we may never know.
