I just got back from the McCaskill Town Hall in Moberly MO. She was splendid. The Dems need to take a page out of her playbook on how to handle potentially disruptive town halls. She had slips of paper on everyone’s chair and pens for folks to write questions. She had a show of hands of folks in the first two rows who oppose her in every respect. The guy who raised his hand, was given the job of pulling questions from the basket. She spent an hour answering questions and was able to cover most everything…closing to a warm round of applause. There were inappropriate cat calls to some of her responses but no real disruptions or talk of Nazis etc. Once one question on abortion was settled (no…no Federal Money can be used for abortion) and …no…no illegal aliens will be covered…there was no need to answer more questions on the issues. “Death panels” did not even come up. She was warmly received and got big applause at the end. Very good altogether.
Not quite the KC crowd, but quite a turnout in Moberly…Claire rocked!
25 Tuesday Aug 2009
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becoming publicly synonomous with absurdity, that even most of the die-hards are embarrassed to be associated with the claim. If I am right (and that remains to be seen), perhaps it demonstrates that it is best to take on the worst slurs and make lots of noise about — and disproves, at least partially, the coventional wisdom about how discussion cements the original lie in peoples minds more effectively than it dispels it.
I can’t stay for the whole session on Wednesday, but I plan to be there at least a half hour before it begins.
I want to see who comes out.
As if there couldn’t be a bigger tell of the differences between the parties, how many town halls on health care has Senator Kit Bond held?
…check my diary for more information and photos! It actually made the reco list at Big Orange, to my surprise
Andy
Alton IL
Thanks BillinMidMo………I’m glad things are improving. I was at the Townhall in Jefferson County and it did not go nearly so well.I think Claire used very smart opening tecniques but that did not quell the rable.