Comments on: Town Hall, Not Party Event

By: ed

ed — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:36:28 +0000

Loyalty oaths. Jeezus. I’d blocked those out. What a horrible bunch are the Republicans.

By: megamoze

megamoze — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:39:46 +0000

“Exactly. They save the hand-picking for the press conferences.”

They don’t screen the press conferences, doofus. Can conservatives tell the truth about ANYTHING?

Obama decides who he’s going to call on ahead of time. To even imagine that this is remotely the same as Bush “townhalls” in which people have to sign LOYALTY OATHS and in which people with so much as an anti-war bumper sticker are ejected should give you some idea of the mendacity of the current Republican party.

SF, if you ever wonder why your party is in the wilderness, it’s because you goons demonstrate time and time again your utter lack of principle, skills at governing, or honesty.

By: Randy Brown

Randy Brown — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:41:00 +0000

Les Kinsolving and World Nut Daily have been yammering about this non-story for nearly two weeks. Good! Time for the wingers to eat schidt for a while.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:22:43 +0000

Choose: The president should filter the press or the people? I say the filter goes on the press, eff ‘em.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:11:32 +0000

Exactly. They save the hand-picking for the press conferences.

What, did Jeff Gannon get his WH job back?

No?

He probably doesn’t make funny faces at his press conferences,

I’ll bet he doesn’t even give the press corps witty nicknames either. What a buzzkill.

By: calling all toasters

calling all toasters — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:25:02 +0000

SaveFarris– it is unfortunate for you that we have a President who plans stuff. He probably doesn’t make funny faces at his press conferences, either. And he *never* calls on someone just because they’re the White House’s resident gay prostitute.

I know you miss all that, but try to live with it.

By: Tyro

Tyro — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:12:35 +0000

SaveFarris, that faux-outrage is pretty rich coming from you now, after 8 years of cowardly slavish bush-support for his Potemkin publicity stunts.

Save it– you lack the moral judgment or standing. Obama’s a braver and better man than Bush, full stop.

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:08:40 +0000

"I’ve watched the President do town halls from 2004 through 2008, and the audience has never been hand-picked, and neither have the questions." Exactly. They save the hand-picking for the press conferences.

By: Tyro

Tyro — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:07:17 +0000

Notably, in part no doubt because of Bush’s “closed session” strategy of holding these Potemkim Town Halls, the more Bush promoted his Social Security plan, the less popular it became. I suspect the dynamic of Obama’s promotion of the stimulus plan will be the exact opposite.

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:56:07 +0000

steno says: “If you campaign better than you govern, this would be the way to go, I suppose…”

You just described the Republican party (nearly) perfectly.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:31:42 +0000

If you campaign better than you govern, this would be the way to go, I suppose…

He’s already shown that.

Go away.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:44:16 +0000

Amazing to see the difference between fuckin idiot royalty like George Bush Junior and a genuinely intelligent person like President Barack Obama. About like the difference between the Republican party and NotRepublicans.

By: steno

steno — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:31:34 +0000

If you campaign better than you govern, this would be the way to go, I suppose…

But it will wear thin pretty quickly. Remember what Honest Ob’s hero said: “You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”