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Obamas Facebook Town Hall thing

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  1. P0KERDUUDE P0KERDUUDE is offline

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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 10:40pm)

    Has anyone been watching this from the start? I just got home and logged on but I was wondering if he has mentioned Online Poker.
     
  2. Passiveplay Passiveplay is offline

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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 10:43pm) in reply to P0KERDUUDE

    Nope it's pretty much the same shit you see all the time. By Facebook townhall I think they mean questions asked by Facebook employees, because that is where the questions are coming from. Mark is asking questions with a laptop on front of him so maybe they are coming for Facebook users.
     
  3. mikechr23 mikechr23 is offline

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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 10:43pm) in reply to P0KERDUUDE

    not yet...hope he at least addresses it somehow instead of just ignoring it
     
  4. P0KERDUUDE P0KERDUUDE is offline

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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 10:48pm) in reply to mikechr23

    yeah, from what I saw, most of the questions on the event wall were about online poker and marijuana lol.
    Edited By: P0KERDUUDE Apr 20th, 2011 at 10:49 PM
     
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  5. Dan Dan is offline Administrator

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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 10:52pm) in reply to P0KERDUUDE

    Right, most of the lead-in questions posted on Facebook were either about pot or poker. It's been going on for about an hour now and I haven't seen anywhere that Obama has talked about our industry.
     
  6. mikechr23 mikechr23 is offline

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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 10:55pm) in reply to Dan

    they said this is the last question so they are going to ignore the most asked questions
     
  7. TheBulldog3 TheBulldog3 is offline

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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 10:58pm) in reply to mikechr23

    yeah nothing about poker or weed, which were asked about the most...majority of the questions were from facebook employees
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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 11:00pm) in reply to TheBulldog3

    ridiculous how it wasn't questions from the fb users, we all wanted to know about the recent developments in online poker. instead they asked questions to the crowd that was there...lol
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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 11:16pm) in reply to jeprie4774

    booooring. and sickening too a little bit. Bring in more H1B's he says cause we are too dumb too work.
    Edited By: fucheaters Apr 20th, 2011 at 11:17 PM
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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 11:40pm) in reply to fucheaters

    It's actually just a little bit surprising that online poker wasn't talked about given the sheer volume of posts about it on the Facebook page for the town hall meeting.
     
  11. driftdc5 driftdc5 is offline

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    Apr 20th, 2011 (4/20/2011 11:42pm) in reply to Dan

    not surprised at all
     
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    Apr 21st, 2011 (4/21/2011 12:05am) in reply to driftdc5

    I'm sure the topics were discussed ahead of time meaning Obama didn't want to address it...no other reason for Facebook to not address the issue. Facebook wants to satisfy it's users.
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    Apr 21st, 2011 (4/21/2011 12:06am) in reply to abelian

    scripted
     
  14. jeffbeesdat jeffbeesdat is offline

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    Apr 21st, 2011 (4/21/2011 12:08am) in reply to donkiman

    Very Disappointing.
     
  15. MUPokerPlayer MUPokerPlayer is offline

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    Apr 21st, 2011 (4/21/2011 12:15am) in reply to jeffbeesdat

    not surprising at all. obama likely knows very little about the situation. i'm sure he told them what he was going to talk about.
    Edited By: MUPokerPlayer Apr 21st, 2011 at 12:15 AM
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    Apr 21st, 2011 (4/21/2011 12:37am) in reply to MUPokerPlayer

    it was rehearsed and the questions and responses were canned. it was the same stuff he has addressed before and the news talks about constantly. i do believe they looked at the event's wall though.

    at about 1:35 EST the entire facebook event locked up and it was phasing in and out of existence for about 15 minutes. no posting or anything was allowed. it was like they were downloading all the info on the wall and analyizing it so that for the next 2.5 hours they could pick out and research the questions and rehearse proper answers. aaaaaaawesome...
  17. P0KERDUUDE P0KERDUUDE is offline

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    Apr 21st, 2011 (4/21/2011 4:21am) in reply to haonhack

    yeah, its pretty fuckin disturbing that they can call this a town hall format when the most popular topics don't even get mentioned.
     
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  18. B_O_K_E B_O_K_E is offline

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    Apr 21st, 2011 (4/21/2011 3:19pm) in reply to P0KERDUUDE

    [ ] surprised.
     
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    Apr 21st, 2011 (4/21/2011 7:27pm) in reply to B_O_K_E

     
    Originally Posted by B_O_K_E View Post

    [ ] surprised.

    [x] Typical Obama campaign stop.

    Didn't watch, couldn't stomach it once I saw on his page "Shared responsibility, Shared prosperity". How many times did he use the words "Hope" and "Change"?
    Edited By: amymarie1967 Apr 21st, 2011 at 07:29 PM
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    Apr 22nd, 2011 (4/22/2011 3:17am) in reply to amymarie1967

     
    Originally Posted by amymarie1967 View Post

    [x] Typical Obama campaign stop.

    Didn't watch, couldn't stomach it once I saw on his page "Shared responsibility, Shared prosperity". How many times did he use the words "Hope" and "Change"?

    Not sure, but alot more than he used "poker" or "marijuana"
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