Obama's keynote speech at SXSW (Austin)

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2. I wish he/we would create MORE opportunities for these types

of drawn out discussions speaking adult to adult with citizens
and as he suggests, getting a two-way communication going with
government so that people and government truly work together on issues.
Not like FDR's fireside chats exactly ( there wasn't a means for citizen imput),
but a venue similar to a city council meeting but on the national/federal level
where he or any president can get past sound bites into the meat of issues facing us
and get immediate feedback, organize citizen working groups, brain storm, etc.
We really have under-utilized all our technology and its potential to open up
dialogue and really draw on the wealth of resources in our citizenry.