United States President Barack Obama will answer user-submitted questions on YouTube’s CitizenTube channel this afternoon at 1:45 p.m. EST. YouTube is so excited about this webcast that it’s advertising it with a strip at the top of the site regardless of what you’re viewing at the time. (You can remove that if you want, though.)

The President obviously won’t have time to answer all 12,000 questions that have been sent in, but he’ll get to as many as he can. He won’t know which questions will be asked until he hears them during the interview. All the submissions are visible at CitizenTube, though, and users can vote for which ones they’d like answered, so the questions we hear in the webcast should be a finger on the pulse of the nation — or at least the pulse of the citizens who are interested in a webcast Q&A.

This is an interesting slice of cyber-democracy and populism; it will be the first interview with the President since he delivered his State of the Union speech last week. The speech attracted 1.3 million online viewers at Whitehouse.gov and 48 million on traditional television.

Tags: CitizenTube, live video, obama, politics, state of the union, youtube

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