**President Obama will host a Shanghai Town Hall late tonight**

[alsame]

Shanghai Town Hall
Posted by Katie Stanton on November 15, 2009 at 06:29 AM EST

Tomorrow, November 16, President Obama will have a town hall meeting with Chinese youth in Shanghai, China. Holding the event in Shanghai is symbolic as the Shanghai Communique was announced here and helped pave the way for normalization and the first 30 years of formal diplomatic relations.

At the meeting, the President will interact with young Chinese and discuss the relationship between our two countries in the years ahead. Attendees of the event will come from several Universities in the Shanghai area. During this event, the President will take questions from the live audience, as well as from the online Chinese community. The online community in China has been submitting questions on a variety of websites including Xinhuanet, Sohu and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing’s website.

The Town Hall will be livestreamed on Whitehouse.gov/live. You can also join us on the official White House page on Facebook or the Embassy's website to view and participate in a live discussion during the event.

The event is planned to start Monday at 12:45pm local time in Shanghai which means late Sunday night in Washington, DC at 11:45pm EST.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/15/shanghai-town-hall

[Thrill]

1. Can you imagine Busg doing that?

:)

[ClarkUSA]

2. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll be watching. K&R

[Clio the Leo]

3. you must have read my mind

I was sitting here with my iPhone trying to figure out the time. thank you!

[NYC_SKP]

4. Freepers: "Bonzai!!!11!!"

In typical ignorant fashion... :P

[madrchsod]

5. at least he`ll do better than hillary has in her q&a with young people

should be interesting to hear what is on the minds of the student leaders in china.

[theoldman]

6. College students are a tough group.

They are educated and are not afraid to ask questions. I hope that Obama will not try to weasel out of giving an honest answer.

[liberalmuse]

7. Yeah, because that's what he does.

Lots of Obama hate in the comments on DU this morning. I guess liberals are still keeping up the tradition of shooting themselves in the foot. Thanks. Personally, I think he's too good for the likes of the ignorant, hateful asshats infesting this country.

[Cha]

12. ..

ZING!

[Drunken Irishman]

14. It's amazing, isn't it?

[jenmito]

8. "I hope that Obama will not try to weasel out of giving an honest answer." You

must've not noticed he holds town halls with college students in most countries he visits. And he never tries to "weasel out" of ANYTHING. :eyes:

[Connie_Corleone]

9. Yeah, Obama hates answering questions from college students.

That's why he's never done it before in a foreign country.

:sarcasm:

:eyes:

[ClarkUSA]

10. I hope that Obama Haters will not weasel out of giving Pres. Obama credit where credit is due.

But I won't hold my breath waiting for bitter idiots to get a clue.

[Cha]

11. You have not been paying much attention to our President if

you think there could be a remote chance that he would "weasel" out of anything as you so ineloquently put it.

[Undercurrent]

13. Does anyone know

if this will be on TV? My elderly dad can't us a PC, but would love to see this event. Can't find any info so far.

Thanks in advance. :-)

[alsame]

15. I can't find any TV info at all. I guess.

we'll have to wait and see if MSNBC, CNN or CSPAN cover it tonight.

I hope your Dad gets to see it!

[Clio the Leo]

20. I'm crossing my fingers for a CNN live stream....

.... as the WhiteHouse.org stream is audio only and isn't the most reliable one unfortunately.

[Clio the Leo]

16. Kick for a reminder. NT

[jenmito]

17. I hope this will be on video tomorrow. I won't be awake tonight that late. n/t

[Clio the Leo]

18. (pours Jen some coffee)

HANG IN THERE KID!!!!

[jenmito]

19. Thanks...

but I don't drink coffee! :scared: I'm not gonna make it!

[HipChick]

21. just starting..

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live