Obama holds online town hall meeting

At the White House today, President Obama held a new kind of town hall meeting - asking the public to participate and interact online. The event drew more than 92,000 text and video questions from people across the country, which were then ranked by more than 3.5 million votes. People could stream the meeting live, and watch the President repond to their questions. One topic was pushed to the top by online voters - legalization of marijuana and whether that could jumpstart the economy. The President didn't think so. [Obama clip] Other popular questions focused on the high costs of tuition; teachers' salaries; and the foreclosure crisis. One question posed by a resident of Quakertown, PA asked: "Why did money go to bailing out large corporations, when some of the money could have gone to student loan forgiveness?"

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