My Weekly Press Conference with President Obama

If I were the only reporter attending a weekly press conference for President Barack Obama, I would ask him the following questions:

(1) Mr. President, why haven't you very candidly told the American people yet that we have an urgent need for a comprehensive nationwide recycling program on any and all disposable items that can be recycled?

(2) Mr. President, What are you doing to help lower the violent crime rate throughout the United States?

(3) Mr. President, have you fired any federal employee or federal official so far because you concluded that he or she had made a significantly dishonest statement to the American people that you have since identified as being flagrantly false? If not, why haven't you as our Chief of State fired anyone yet for that cited reason?

(4) Mr. President, do you sense that possibly the U.S. Government will be facing massive lawsuits from foreign nations or foreign-based environmental groups in which the U.S. Government is accused of having caused disastrous Global Warming Effect damage to that foreign nation? How do you plan to respond to those inevitable multi-billion dollar lawsuits against the U.S. Government that foreign-based entities will no doubt be filing in a court of law in the foreseeable future?

(5) Mr. President, why is it that neither you nor First Lady Michelle Obama has made any public statement thus far in your White House tenure in which either of you has urged the American people to decline to consume marijuana or any other illicit drug. Do you both possibly fear offending the illicit-drug subculture, and if so, why would a scenario in which either of you might offend our nation's illicit-drug underworld pose a concern to your Administration?

(6) Mr. President, do you believe that the U.S. Government currently has an adequate and comprehensive inventory of all reserve supplies of each and every category of mineral and other natural resource that might be found in the United States? If not, are you sponsoring a new system for updating that crucial information about our nation on a monthly basis, say?

(7) Mr. President, you have recently hinted that you would support a realignment of our national economy that emphasizes 21st Century priorities for our nation. Would you also be willing to take a public stand supporting the elimination of any current industries in this nation, such as the tattooing industry, that contribute nothing whatsoever to our nation's well-being, and that do significantly offend and harm many Americans each year.

(8) Mr. President, Have you observed any evidence of corruption in the federal government so far in your tenure in the White House? If so, did you immediately and without flinching share that criminal-law evidence with the U.S. Department of Justice? I raise that question because it seems to me that if a U.S. President obtains evidence of corruption in government, he is honorbound to himself file a legal complaint about that corruption evidence with the U.S. Department of Justice or some other law-enforcement agency.

(9) Mr. President, do you admire the trans-Canadian passenger-train service that our neighbor to the north, Canada, offers to its citizenry? If so, then do you have plans for a trans-American high-speed or "bullet" train service that might connect Los Angeles, California, with Washington, D.C., New York City, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts, for instance?

(10) Mr. President, much has been said about the dog you and First Lady Michelle Obama and your two daughters recently adopted. Inevitably that raises the question of whether you believe the U.S. Government does enough to monitor the total dog population and total cat population in this nation. Would you like to see a more successful population-control program established that would help to reduce the total number of dogs and cats in this nation---dogs and cats that, in a nation such as ours with widespread poverty, inevitably raise the question of whether human beings are suffering from neglect as a result of our nationwide devotion to dogs and cats.

(11) Mr. President, since you yourself are already one of the most famous current or former residents of Chicago, Illinois, in the entire history of that city, do you feel a special devotion to helping to reduce the rate of political corruption in Chicago, Illinois? How do you plan to achieve that goal for yourself during your years as our duly elected Chief of State?


Thank you, Mr. President, for your responses to each of these questions at this press conference you have kindly agreed to hold today.