--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "margovon" <margo...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: > > > > > > Obama Town Hall Questioners Were Campaign Backers > > > President Obama has promised to change the way the government > > > does business, but in at least one respect he is taking a page > > > from the Bush playbook, stocking his town hall Thursday with > > > supporters whose soft -- though far from planted -- questions > > > provided openings to discuss his preferred message of the day. > > > > No comparison to BushCo's un-American fascist tactics with their > > 'free speech zones'. > > Bush played hardball and got softball questions. Obama's > campaign workers played ball and gave Obama softball > questions. It's still softball and not the game as > advertised. "...we didn't screen anybody."
Actually, I have it on good authority that there WAS "screening" going on. For health reasons, all PUMA members wanting to attend the Town Hall meeting were tested for rabies, and if they tested positive they were not allowed in the hall without being fitted for a muzzle. But I think it is important to remember that this was to protect the other Town Hall attendees from the spread of the disease should the PUMA folks start frothing at the mouth and attempting to bite people, and was NOT an exercise in the limitation of free speech, as was practiced during the Bush era. It was the same with the requirement that radical feminists wear bright red T-shirts with the letter 'F' printed on them during the meeting. This was also a health measure, designed to warn other attendees not to get into discussions with them, because the resulting shrieks and screaming on the part of the feminists has been proven to cause tintinitis and sometimes total deafness. Some of the radical feminists complained later that the T-shirts were a form of discrimination, and that the 'F' really stood for 'FUCKED,' but most observers in the News media wrote that off as hopeful projection, because the women saying it clearly hadn't been fucked in decades. Just trying to be helpful by providing some of the "back story" behind the headlines...
