Much has been made of the chance for true, interactive democracy offered by the freewheeling town hall format that lawmakers are using in health care forums across the country.
But what the White House is calling a "town hall meeting" does not quite follow in the tradition of the public-driven forums that sprouted centuries ago in New England.
It's more like a press conference for the public.
Let the President speak
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#1
rtvols
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08/14/09 at 09:00 AM
Barack Hussein Obama WILL GO DOWN AS THE WORST PRESIDENT OF AMERICA. If we can survive that long. If we can just hold on for a little over three years. Then we can vote again. Hurry 2012
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Sheila Tolley
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08/15/09 at 05:17 PM
I totally agree, only problem is that IF the jerk gets re-elected. That would be awful.
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Sheila Tolley
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08/20/09 at 08:24 PM
Where is my teleprompter? Where is your brain? Where is your illegal immigrant Aunt? Then I would tell my joke...obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder, the bartender asks, "Where did you get that ugly thing?" The parrot replied, 'In Kenya, they're everywhere!'
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