Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on July 2, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Hey, what do Helen Thomas and Chip Reid know? Both of them accused the White House of staging a phony town hall on health care yesterday, before the event began. Robert Gibbs couldn’t contain his incredulousness, repeatedly replying that the press should wait to judge the event, and that he was absolutely positive that the questions for Barack Obama would contain dissent from his policies.
The Washington Post report on the “town-hall event” shows how clumsily Obama faked it:
In the stage-managed event, questions for Obama came from a live audience selected by the White House and the college, and from Internet questions chosen by the administration’s new-media team. Of the seven questions the president answered, four were selected by his staff from videos submitted to the White House Web site or from those responding to a request for “tweets.”
The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.
A coincidence? They just happened to open the doors and let anyone in, Obama just happened to call on only three people — and all three just happened to be organizers for Democrats and their allies? Even the WaPo couldn’t swallow that ridiculous line.
Sam Goldwyn once said that sincerity was the key to success — once you learned to fake it, you’d succeed. I think Goldwyn would tell Obama and his White House that they failed at it yesterday.
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coincidenceco-ink-a-dink
There, fixed it for them.
singlemalt_18 on July 2, 2009 at 8:09 AM
connections to Obama and the Democrats? Those groups are Obama and the Democrats. Its amazing how elites still peddle Obama as a genius, apparently he isn’t smart enough to think on his feet.
rob verdi on July 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Well,at least there admitting,that all questions,get
checked,and scutenized,by the Ministry of Question Czar
Scrutenizor!!
canopfor on July 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM
They are afraid to have Obama be asked a real question by a real citizen — they understand Barry’s limitations better than the adoring media does.
Their fear of another “Joe the Plumber” moment dictates their management of these bogus events.
cruadin on July 2, 2009 at 8:11 AM
Just like it’s a “coincidence” that all this spending and nationalization of our economy has led to further job losses.
Doughboy on July 2, 2009 at 8:12 AM
He still didn’t answer the questions! What a dumbass.
SouthernGent on July 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM
‘Controlling the Press!
Shades of PRAVADA,me thinks!!
canopfor on July 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM
People like Axelrod, Obama, Emmanuel, and other despots dead and alive, think it would be NUTS to not have all these events scripted. They’re not being clumsy. This is how they think a political system ought to work, and one of the ways that you hang on to power. It’s an acknowledgment that their ideas fail in the free marketplace, but they never asserted otherwise, and don’t believe otherwise. And each time we on the other side sit and stare with out mouths open catching flies. This is how totalitarian govs operate.
JiangxiDad on July 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Total control freak.
rockbend on July 2, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Not sure how factual this is, but I heard on the radio this morning that the woman who stood up and said she had a tumor and no health insurance to cover it actually works for an organization close to/sponsored by BHO. I’m sure BHO’s political war chest is large enough to cover her health care….
BPD on July 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Well,state-run idiots,how much longer are you going to let him continue to make fools of you??:)
ohiobabe on July 2, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Assuming that this is done in most administrations, albeit more subtly, if this was a Republican president we would know everything short of the social security number of all those questioners.
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM
LOL
How fake
I didn’t know Obama was a taxadermist too
blatantblue on July 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM
I hear Astrotruf wants it’s good name back.
Limerick on July 2, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Obama’s moving into Milli Vanilli territory. Our society takes down fakers for less.
sherry on July 2, 2009 at 8:21 AM
I don’t think there is any evidence to back up your assumption. That this “town hall” was so heavy-handed that even Helen Thomas is critical of a radical liberal says something.
highhopes on July 2, 2009 at 8:21 AM
I wouldn’t doubt it.
What fools people are, thinking that Prince Obarfy of the Obarfio Badministration will make everything better.
blatantblue on July 2, 2009 at 8:22 AM
LOL Thanks for the morning LOL
IF only he dressed like them
blatantblue on July 2, 2009 at 8:23 AM
The Obamateurism is not that there was such a staged “town hall” session, but that it was so transparently a staged event. Though to be fair to Dear Leader, at least this is one area of His administration that there is actually transparency.
Helen Thomas hasn’t seen such a staged managed affair since Noah tried getting people onto the ark.
rbj on July 2, 2009 at 8:23 AM
America is better than this. We deserve better than this.
I still find it very hard to believe that so many people are willing to sacrifice principles, throw-away all common sense and completely lose all dignity in exchange for a handout.
I mean, I get it, the perpetual losers of the country are basking in their newfound glory, they finally have a voice to pity them and pander to them. The greedy, rich folks are being knocked down a peg (well, except their favorite actors, musicians, sports stars, and the new celebrities – politicians) and that makes them feel good.
Is this the new American dream Obama is offering? Yes, one day you too can rise to mediocrity. We can all be mediocre together, just don’t question The One. Who cares if you are a loser with no future, Obama will turn everyone else into losers, too.
reaganaut on July 2, 2009 at 8:24 AM
The icing is off this cake… My (very) devoted Democrat father told me last night, that this president is the biggest phony he has ever seen. My father is the last left leaning member of my family to turn his back on this administration. Approximately 50 Democrats in my family are now ripe for the taking if the GOP gets out there and packages their message around the theme “by the people, for the people, of the people.”
My Liberal lawyer older brother recently told me that he might not ever vote Republican, but he will not be voting Democrat any longer. I simply told him that would be a good starting place for his recovery.
Keemo on July 2, 2009 at 8:25 AM
That’s an image just waiting to be photoshopped.
sherry on July 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Time to capitalize on those feelings of disaffection, Keem
blatantblue on July 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Mr. prez WHAT A FAKE.DOES HE STILL SMOKE ?
steviedfromnc on July 2, 2009 at 8:28 AM
These occurrences are just statistical anomalies. Even though it is very long odds that all of those things, when added together, are just a “coincidence”, it speaks much to how the universe revolves around Obama.
Those are the same kind of statistical oddities that now prove “the stimulus is working” (BHO, 7/1/09).
Yoop on July 2, 2009 at 8:28 AM
If this wasn’t a staged infomercial, which it was, how does Gibbs say that there will be dissent with absolute certainty? Furthermore, it’s not about the dissent but how the questions are answered. Obama continues to lie about the costs, numbers of uninsured, and what his plot to nationalize healthcare means to average Americans. Beyond calling the filthy liar out for these ham-handed attempts at controlling the media, somebody has to nail the bastard down to specifics not anecdotal stories and fake tears.
highhopes on July 2, 2009 at 8:28 AM
One day
one day
blatantblue on July 2, 2009 at 8:29 AM
all that matters is that he can still ram his facist policies thru congress. and that the dumb electorate still believes in him.
kelley in virginia on July 2, 2009 at 8:29 AM
+100
highhopes on July 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Interesting point in the article for me is the WaPo calling it a “stage-managed event”.
ICBM on July 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM
We only deserve what we’ve asked for
And unfortunately, a majority of us asked for it.
blatantblue on July 2, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Those people scare the hell out of me…
ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Been the family outcast for years BB. My family has deep union roots, construction industry, No. Ca… I left the union back in 1973, and never looked back. Opened up my first business in 1982 in So. Ca., and have voted Republican ever since the invent of the Carter era.
The very facts about Liberalism I have been pointing out to my brain washed family members, are now so blatant, they can’t deny that these policies are/will hurt the entire country, with no escape for anybody including f**king union members!
Keemo on July 2, 2009 at 8:34 AM
I’m basically trying to cut off the “everybody does it” charge and I agree that this administration’s stacking of the deck does seem to cross the line. Remember how crazy people went over that Jeff Gannon guy? I am pretty sure during the Bush administration, allowing a solider to have a question constituted a skewed attendance. My main point is that everything that could be known about a questioner would be. Example, the woman being treated for cancer who can no longer work and keep her insurance. The public was left thinking that this woman would have to discontinue treatment and die. A real media would fill in the blanks and really what happens, if an employer can fire a person who is ill or what institutions step in to take up the slack.
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Maybe this will be a turning point
But I guess we should never underestimate the grasp liberalism has
blatantblue on July 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM
The sum total of these people’s expectations was to get Mr. Obama elected, after that they don’t care. They have little or no idea of what goes on in D.C. and it’s impact. I’d like to make a bumper sticker.
**Just how many rich people do you think there are?**
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 8:40 AM
do you know that my congressman, tom perriello, 5thCD VA, DEM, voted for the cap ‘n trade because he was being patriotic.
and people will believe that.
kelley in virginia on July 2, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Exactly! A real media would point out the fact that we have laws in place that demand every citizen treatment @ community hospitals.
Keemo on July 2, 2009 at 8:40 AM
I want that bumpersticker too!!!
ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Unemployment now at a 26 year high, according to the new numbers just released this morning.
There will be a staged press conference sometime today so that BHO can take tweeted questions, all of them from anonyomous twitterers, and address all with the same answer:
“It is all Bush’s fault, always was, is now, and forever will be, Amen.”
Yoop on July 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM
On the whole this seems like good news but doesn’t it scare you a little bit that they might vote for the likes of Cynthia McKinney? Please tell me that at least they think she’s nuts.
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM
my husband told me (maybe he heard it on Sirius radio somewhere or read it in the WSJ) that only 7% of the country even knew what cap ‘n trade was all about. and figure that some of them are the libs.
kelley in virginia on July 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM
There are so many “happy coincidences” in Barackistan.
Buy Danish on July 2, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Our local team party is tonight maybe it will be my sign.
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM
we’ve always known the “electorate” isn’t too concerned about much. i’m not too mad at them because they are no different than they have always been.
but there are about 10% of the 53% that voted for bambi that should know what is going on.
kelley in virginia on July 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM
I fantasize that someone will make it past the audience vetting and get called on, tossing their canned question and blasting him with a real question. Watching him react with shock and stammer his was incoherently through a response would be delicious.
Monica on July 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Me thinks,Team Obama is running a ‘Stepford Wifes’,
operation on the press!!
canopfor on July 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Coincidence, my a$$!
Just the same, there’s wee consolation to be had when those who shamelessly adore Obama have called on the White House for “staging a phony town hall” event.
Maybe there’s now a smidgen of hope that the MSM will do what they were supposed to do…?
mz.josephine on July 2, 2009 at 8:44 AM
My cousin voted for Obama because she thought McCain was a “warmonger”…a few weeks ago she told me she is worried about losing her excellent healthcare coverage…I chose not to say “I told you so”…but I wanted to.
I think she’s finally coming around…
ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM
DO NOT FORGET HOTAIRIANS:
keep up the pressure on your Senators re: cap ‘n trade.
don’t wait until the day before. email now.
kelley in virginia on July 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM
It would be a great sign.
ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM
IDK about Hot Arians
///aryans?
maybe HotAirers
blatantblue on July 2, 2009 at 8:46 AM
ladyingray: your cousin, even though she’s bound to be smart since she’s kin to you, might not connect the dots. you might need to tell her “i told you so”.
kelley in virginia on July 2, 2009 at 8:46 AM
The brain wash at within the union is very powerful. I believe what has happened to my family in No. Ca., is simply that their work has dried up and they have been forced to go outside of the union for work in order to put food on the table and maintain a roof over their heads. The brain wash has not been there for several months now, and the reality that the union couldn’t keep them busy has set in. The unions made outrageous promises to their members if Obama were to be elected; promises that have not been kept. The unions got their members to donate money they did not have on the promise that if Obama gets in office, the work will return in droves.
Unions are a disease…
Keemo on July 2, 2009 at 8:46 AM
and ladyingray: and point her to the nearest protest. tell her to write/call her congresscritters.
and BB: yeah, what are we exactly? Hot Aires?
kelley in virginia on July 2, 2009 at 8:47 AM
I will…I’m just biding my time.
ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Unions served a purpose in the 1910’s, 20’s, 30’s, so on and so forth
Now?
Just a tool for bully union bosses and havens for lazy bastids
blatantblue on July 2, 2009 at 8:48 AM
O/T: Michelle’s on Fox and Friends right now.
Just don’t call us “Hot Airheads”.
Well…maybe a couple of the regulars around here.
kingsjester on July 2, 2009 at 8:49 AM
BB: what is that hot wind that blows across the desert? could we be that in our collective form? oops, meant to say our “concentrated” form?
kelley in virginia on July 2, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Unemployment rate now listed at 9.5%, but BHO preaches that the stimulus is working. Yes, he can cure all ills. Time to refer to BHO as Benny Hinn Obama.
ICBM on July 2, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Heh.
ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM
How in the world does Amtrak have reports with redacted passages to Congress?
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 8:52 AM
ICBM on July 2, 2009 at 8:50 AM
That’s about right. Obama smacks us upside the head and says, “Be healed.”
kingsjester on July 2, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Cracking me up.. I’m comfortable saying that they would agree that McKinney is a nutter. Unless one has been a part of this union environment, it’s impossible to describe how powerful their brain wash really is.
The Democrat Party has gone ultra left for the past 2-3 decades minimum. Reasonable hard working Democrats are starting to see this under this administration. The suffering will include the hard working Democrats, which is necessary I believe if these people are going to wake up and join with us as Americans rather than as Democrats.
Keemo on July 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM
Can’t wait for the next meeting with Gibbs. Hopefully the MSM press will (partially) start doing their job after this slap in the face.
NickelAndDime on July 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM
Amen my friend!
Keemo on July 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM
It’s funny when I think back at how annoying I thought Tip O’Neal was during the Reagan administration and now I would pay to find a Democrat like him.
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Joe the Plumber was the last leaker. If it isn’t staged by his strategists, the filthy liar in the White House will not do it. Planted questions from Huffpo, staged town halls, it is all part of the propaganda machine that is propping up this failed President.
The only part that irritates me is that it is working, the public is buying this BS and among certain demographics, this street thug is revered as if Christ himself returned. It is disgusting.
highhopes on July 2, 2009 at 8:57 AM
the constant incoming and sharp detonations being lobbed constantly at us seem to make my shoulders ache and I fear the strange affect it has had on my vision, as I think I can actually see the darkness creeping to the edge of my sight ….’scuse me a sec
How deep do you want me to make this fox hole?
…as I was saying,
stacy on July 2, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Nancy Pelosi IS a Democrat like O’Neil just without the charm.
highhopes on July 2, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 8:56 AM
So true.. Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, Feinstein, Murtha, Biden, Obama, Clinton…
Truly pathetic examples of a human being…
Keemo on July 2, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Get the popcorn ready and sit back to watch Helen EXPLODE!
jbh45 on July 2, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Does he use his totus at these events? Funny if he does. I guess you can have the answers written out for you and that is why you need to know the questions.
Bambi on July 2, 2009 at 9:01 AM
I saw a wide shot on Fox News yesterday before the Event and sure enough big ol’ High Def TOTUS was in the back of the room. Today’s Gibbs’ press conference should be interesting.
kingsjester on July 2, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Do you really think so? You may be right but he at least saw what welfare was doing to keep people from getting ahead and wrecking the families. And he didn’t seem so nasty but maybe time has clouded my memory. The current group seems openly hostile not to just their opponents but to the public.
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Now that Obama has mainstreamed rabble rousing as a career, I hate to imagine how many radical wannabes are thinking of becoming a community organizer to get a seat in the Congress… or White House.
petefrt on July 2, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Obama needs to appoint a Fake Sincerity Czar.
Daggett on July 2, 2009 at 9:06 AM
They are. Tip O’Neil did and Nancy Pelosi does wield tremendous power as the Speaker with a solid majority. They both have used that power to reward loyalists and punish enemies (the way Jane Harmon was treated by Pelosi, for example). The difference is that O’Neil used his power to be a dealmaker with the other side. Pelosi uses her power to further partisan strategy without any regard for the consequences of the legislation she is rubber stamping for the filthy liar in the White House. O’Neil would have at least made the POTUS (of whichever party) offer up something up in return for support.
highhopes on July 2, 2009 at 9:12 AM
That’s Robert Gibbs role.
highhopes on July 2, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Just wait until colleges start offering the Masters of Rabble Rousing as a degree option.
highhopes on July 2, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Jonah Goldberg was just on Fox, he said that W did do a bit of this staging to get his administrations view out into the public because they felt the media was hindering their message from getting out. What I didn’t know was that the questioners from the town hall were chosen from pro-Obama organizations and interviewed before the event took place. Interesting.
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 9:15 AM
NO AMERICA IS NOT BETTER THAN THIS!
America is getting exactly what it deserves. America turned it’s back on God, it’s principles, and hard work and perseverance. America will allow itself more media commentary, more analysis, more attention to be given to a sick, slimy pedophile, than the real problems in this country. America will elect a man who associates with terrorists,belongs to a racist church preaching not about God, but about hate, and continue to support people that think that death to a multi-murderer is BAD, but an innocent child is good.
We’re INSANE if we think we deserve any more than we’re getting today.
Jeff from WI on July 2, 2009 at 9:18 AM
And, there are times when we get the exact government we actually deserve. This is one of those times.
Look at that campaign 2008…when it began in 2004…and the constant battering of Bush by all the vocal outfits, and then the lies, and more lies…Goebbels was correct, as was Stalin…tell a lie big enough and tell it long enough and it becomes accepted doctrine.
Hopefully we can Carterize this wound…one term for Obama and no terms for Dems for at least 12 years, perhaps 16, God willing, longer, if and only if we, the people, get off our collective backsides and take back this Nation, one precinct at a time, one county at a time, with a message that we, the people, are and should always be “the government” and those Conservative principles that we have allowed to be mocked in just about every powerful corner of this nation…to include within the Republican Party…actually work and work well for all of the people.
We have to make that necessary case that government is not the cure-all for all of our social ills…that government in truth has no place engineering society…we, the people, can engineer our own society, thank you very much.
I may not live to see it, my kids will, and I hope my grand kids will live it…but enabling the Rights of the individual and making fast individual freedom safe from the shackles of government is the only way we, the people, can make this Nation what it deserves to be….great, proud, unafraid and that shining city on the hill that the rest of the world can either emulate or envy.
And if other nations do not like us…that is their problem to deal with…as we have more important things to think about and accomplish.
coldwarrior on July 2, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Amen
BPD on July 2, 2009 at 9:29 AM
I watched it live, knowing nothing about the controversy behind the event. After Obama’s speech, a lady introduced the Q&A in the most suspicious way, something like:
“I can assure you that President Obama has not seen these questions, no sir, no ma’am. One thing you can count on is that President Obama did not himself pick these questions, and you can take that to the bank, ladies and gentlemen, I mean, okay, if this card right here had a question on it, let me tell you this, he would be seeing it for the first time, it wouldn’t be some question that was like ‘hey I totally recognize that question because I picked it beforehand.’ So, ladies and gentlemen, as we continue our totally legitimate Health Care For All forum, you can bet your life savings on one completely true fact: President Obama did not himself, personally, as an individual, select these questions beforehand because, like that would be totally wrong.”
A little exaggerated, but not too far off.
I turned to my wife and observed: “it’s fixed”.
jeff_from_mpls on July 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM
coldwarrior on July 2, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Unfortunately, oureducationalindoctrinational system has encouraged an entitalment an lazy society. This is the “me” attitude. I pray that the gathering storm will not dissipate as time moves on. Even if positive changes occur we will all have stand vigilent over or representatives. Or else..
HoustonRight on July 2, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Opps..Wrong button. Sorry!
HoustonRight on July 2, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Oh, the pre-event interview wasn’t so much to instruct them, it was to gather information on the poor sucker and take his picture, should things go wrong. You know, in case things were to veer excessively “off script”.
I’m not kidding. Obama’s staff has a history of roughing up the pre-selected shills who unwittingly make the Master look stupid, which you can imagine isn’t too hard to do, after all, this is a man who botched the Oath of Office.
jeff_from_mpls on July 2, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Now some of you may say I am being mean, but I am going to say this anyway, because it is a legitimate concern.
Regarding that morbidly obese lady with the tumor, what makes her think she would qualify for any treatment under Obamacare? She is middle aged, morbidly obese and has cancer – sounds like a no brainer to me. I bet she would be denied care or put on a waiting list until it was too late under Obama care.
bloggless on July 2, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Example No. 349573920 on just how disingenuous he is.
HoustonRight on July 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM
I am inclined to believe she wouldn’t get care. What did he say, take medication for the pain to minimize the discomfort until the end. I am sure the people in the audience think that they would be the exception at the same time rationalizing that the government knows best when they see those around them being denied.
Cindy Munford on July 2, 2009 at 9:41 AM
She definitely thinks she is a potential recipient of Government largesse because so far, Obama has said nothing to suggest otherwise.
We’re still in the stage of the Revolution where everybody thinks they’re one of the People whom the Glorious Leader is fighting for.
Only in a later stage do concrete individuals begin to realize that they aren’t the one Glorious Leader is fighting for. In fact, some people will learn they are the object of Glorious Leader’s rage.
And by that time, there’s no more free media, and lots of innocent people get hurt, with nobody even noticing.
To your point, and with all earnestness, I too predict that woman will die alone at a young age, surrounded by family, having no access to treatment. Outcast and despised, while Obama and his Wife stroll the Seine. Absolutely.
jeff_from_mpls on July 2, 2009 at 9:44 AM
You need to start thinking like the socialists running this country. Ordinary Americans wouldn’t be treated for the reasons you state but she clearly is enough of a party activist that she’s able to get access to the President. That will give her access to the special hospitals set up for loyalists to the dictator in power. Think of it as this illegal regime’s “friends and family” health plan.
highhopes on July 2, 2009 at 9:56 AM
America is a great country. But all it takes is one generation to turn its back on American values, and America will be gone. We’re close to that now, so we have a lot of work to do.
2010. Let’s bring America home again.
Loxodonta on July 2, 2009 at 10:05 AM
I agree with the sentiment, but hope they don’t use the slogan. Slogans are phony. And we’ve had about as much phony as the country can stand. I’d suggest something a little more down-to-earth, such as Socialism or Capitalism–You Decide.
JiangxiDad on July 2, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Obama told her he would have the White House look into her problem.
Should not the rest of the critically ill within the population expect the same consideration from the White House? The WH phone lines should be burning up today.
Yoop on July 2, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Call me insecure… but I do not want my sex partners or politicians “faking it.”
mjbrooks3 on July 2, 2009 at 10:19 AM
We can have a slogan contest.
Give me Liberty, or give me Death!
Loxodonta on July 2, 2009 at 10:19 AM
This format doesn’t work with anyone. It didn’t work for Hillary. It didn’t work for the debates between McCain and Obama.
And it’s not working for Obama on healthcare.
AnninCA on July 2, 2009 at 10:21 AM
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