Obama holds online meeting with ordinary citizens

　　U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday held an interactive online meeting with ordinary citizens across the country, the first such kind of meeting in the history of the White House.

　　Standing in front of a TV screen and joined by an audience in the East Room of the White House, the president replied to six online questions on education, the mortgage crisis, job outsourcing, national service, assistance for veterans and health care.

　　Four of the six virtual questions were displayed on the screen in a written format; the other two were video submissions.

　　The questions were selected from more than 104,000 questions submitted by the public to the White House's web site, WhiteHouse.gov, which streamed live video of the meeting.

　　During the session, the president repeatedly steered the discussion toward larger economic themes, most notably the recent spike in job losses.

　　He warned that even if the economy has already bottomed out, unemployment probably would continue to get worse. Obama also discussed education reform.

　　The president, who revolutionized the use of technology as a political tool during his presidential campaign last year, is the first U.S. president to address questions from the public live on the Internet.

　　据白宫新闻网报道，美国总统奥巴马将在本周四在白宫网站的虚拟市政厅上在线回答网民提问。

　　本月24日，白宫新闻网在其网站上开设了一个“提问(Open for Questions)”栏目，网民可以通过此栏目向奥巴马提出有关经济和其他焦点话题方面上的问题。

　　“提问”是白宫网站WhiteHouse.gov最新设立的一个栏目，奥巴马政府希望以次能够更直接的与美国人民互相交流和沟通。

　　据媒体分析，奥巴马将会主要回答有关网民提出的关于经济方面上的问题。

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