--- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "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'. > > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/chpajr > > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/27/obama_town_hall_questioners_we.html > > > > --- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > > > "We're going to take questions. All right. Just want to make sure my > > > mike's working here. Here's the deal on questions. First of all, we > > > didn't screen anybody. So there's some people who like me in the > > > audience, some people that don't. Some people agree with me, some people > > > who don't. It doesn't matter. We want to take questions from everybody." > > > > > > ---President Obama, town hall meeting, Elkhart, Indiana, Feb. 2009 > > > http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/09/cnr.04.html > > > > > >
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."
