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Originally Posted by kutulu
Give me a break. Protesting was bad when we protested the war and Bush's policies. The right wing had no problem calling them treasonous. Now that they are the ones out the outside it is perfectly fine.
How about this: The Town Hall meetings are for the adults who want to ask intelligent questions and the rabble-rousers can be outside calling for the birth certificates. Does that work?
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Be specific. I think when a person who is the speaker of the house or the leaders in the Senate make certain type of public pronouncements about our commander in chief, about our military strategy, about our ability to win a war, boarders on treason. On the other hand when a person like Dennis Kuchinich, who was consistently against the war and voted against it expresses his concerns I respect it. Personally I have never had a problems with for example mothers of fallen soldiers or actually any regular citizen protesting the war.
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Originally Posted by Derwood
the scenario you just laid out is fine, except halfway into your first point, a handful of people would shout over you while waving signs with Obama as Hitler images on them. These Town Halls don't simmer and then start to bubble over as the conversation grows, they start off with the yelling and screaming right at the beginning. There is no way to have the kind of discussion you're describing.
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when Obama wanted to rush the bill through, people went from luke warm to piping hot. Everyone outside of Washington and the elite media were saying slow down. And you seem to suggest the level of emotion was a surprise? Where you surprised that there would be hostile people at town hall meetings? and, then they were immediately, categorized and dismissed. But along the way, the American people said that we will not be ignored. Now the suggestion that we should be embarrassed????? There was no real leadership on this issue. No clear communication on this issue.