President Obama's Town Hall Meeting on CNBC

Some questions were tough to the President, but a worth while watch. The event was held in Washington, D.C., September 20, 2010. And if you have any doubt that the November mid-term election is NOT about this economy, you are truly living in la-la land.



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President Obama's Town Hall Meeting on the Economy in Racine, WI (Video, Transcript)

This town hall meeting was in Racine, Wisconsin, June 30, 2010



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President Obama's town hall in Portland, ME, April 1, 2010 (Video)

President Obama explains how reform will help control the costs of health care, one of the biggest burdens facing small businesses and middle-class families, at an event in Portland, ME.


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President Obama's Town Hall in New Hampshire (Video)

The President holds a town hall in Nashua, New Hampshire. Having just come from visiting a local business, he discusses his new program to aid small business and community banks.


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President Obama pitches that he will fight for you at a Ohio Town Hall Meeting (Video)

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President Obama's town hall meeting with Chinese Students in Shanghai (video)

President Obama in China: Photos, Videos and all that jazz....

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President Obama's town hall meeting in New Orleans, LA (full video)

The President holds a town hall at the University of New Orleans to hear directly from the people on the ground about Gulf Coast rebuilding, what is going well and what their concerns are. October 15, 2009.


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President Obama's Town Hall Meeting in New Orleans, LA (Video)

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Vice-President Joe Biden's town hall with seniors on health care (Video)

Vice President Biden discusses a new report on how the President's health insurance reform will make Medicare stronger for Americas seniors in a town hall at Leisure World in Maryland. He is joined by HHS Secretary Sebelius and Nancy-Ann DeParle from the White House Office of Health Reform. September 23, 2009.




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In case you missed it: President Obama's Town Hall Meeting in Minneapolis, MN on health care reform (Video and Transcript)

The President takes his case for reform from the heart of Washington out on the road to Minneapolis, MN, where an enthusiastic crowd shows a snapshot of the hunger all over the country. September 12, 2009. Transcript youtube



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Dissin' our president and calling him "Hitler" is the norm in the Republican Party

In fact, true racists have become the norm in the Republican Party and its leaders have done NOTHING to change any of this. I agree, whole heartedly with this sentiment:

What's truly shocking is that Republicans are still comparing our president to Hitler, and no one on the left has yet figured out how to capitalize on this. How many times do you think we'd have gotten away with comparing George Bush to Hitler? In fact, the answer is: Zero. MoveOn was perpetually blamed for comparing Bush to Hitler, when in fact MoveOn did nothing of the kind. The Republicans wanted to scare MoveOn, and more importantly, hurt MoveOn's brand among Democrats. And to some degree it worked. And what do Democrats do when Republicans actually, repeatedly, compare our president to Hitler?

[crickets]

Democrats where are your spines? Really, where are your spines? I guess being the majority has had the opposite affect. Sure, it is easy to let this sit out there and the public decide, but where are the voices of the Democratic Party?

If a black or latino person would have bought a gun to a town hall of George W. Bush's, there would be no question that person would be in JAIL. But it is increasingly acceptable that these right winged extremists bring guns to a town hall event on health care and it is just the norm. Something is wrong with this picture. The media is just as responsible for having these nitwits on the air, perpetuating further hysteria. There is something going on out there and it is all about the color of our president's skin, this should be disturbing and frightening to us all.

None of what is going on right now is the norm, none of it.

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Crazy Azzed Right Wingers at Town Hall with Rep. Moran (D-VA) and Governor Howard Dean (Video)

I saw this LIVE on C-Span yesterday and just shook my head. You will too....especially with the crazy azz right winger, Randall Terry, just classic....



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Did you get your cup of ignorance today? (Video)

Scenes from outside US Congressman Jim Langevin's (D-RI) Town Hall



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Somebody or "bodies" needs to be FIRED at the White House

How in the HELL can the White House not know or understand that the insurance companies, lobbyists and GOP would mount pressure against ANY CHANGE in this country's health care?

After reading this Washington Post article, my only thought somebody or bodies needs to be fired. Truly.

I have to start in the Oval Office, President Obama. He of all people KNOWS and have talked REPEATEDLY that change would be hard, the status quo would resist, that they will say anything or LIE, etc. But then we witness this White House on turtle motion while chaos, misinformation, planted operatives in town hall meetings, continued GOP talking points, death panels, etc., continue to dominate the media and headlines across this country. So, no one should be shocked or surprised that the public actually believe that the health care bill will cover illegal aliens, pay for abortions, the public option is a government take over and it will pull the plug on grandma or "death panels". These misconceptions are killing the White House and the Democrats, how it took so long to finally figure this out is unbelieveable.

Then the constant mis-message of this White House, its surrogates and the Democrats in congress does not help anything either. Message is about cohesiveness, speaking as one, not the muddled crap that we have had to listen to and scratch our heads with the WTF look over the past few weeks. One thing is this, Barack Obama is the head of the Democratic Party, no dispute, so as head he needs to get these folks in LINE.

The GOP or Republicans were never your friend, Obama White House. I will give Obama credit for this, he tried to broker a consensus with the Republicans and got very little or nothing in return. In Obama's trying, the public will remember and as things go down the road, the public will be reminded that the Obama White House tried but it was the Republicans that refused to participate, it was the Republicans that said NO to everything all for political points.

The Obama White House and their shock and awe on the public option tells me one thing, they do not have their hands on the pulse of what is going on out here. That sitting in that bubble, got them what has played out thus far. The left is not going to sit back and say it is cool not to have a public option, not when Barack Obama has campaigned and repeatedly said, "this will keep the insurance companies honest." No, we are not sitting back and listening to any vague White House noise, we want that public option, we want what CONGRESS and the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES have a CHOICE.

Administration officials insisted that they have not shied away from their support for a public option to compete with private insurance companies, an idea they said Obama still prefers to see in a final bill.

But at a time when the president had hoped to be selling middle-class voters on how insurance reforms would benefit them, the White House instead finds itself mired in a Democratic Party feud over an issue it never intended to spotlight.

"I don't understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo," said a senior White House adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We've gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don't understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform."

"It's a mystifying thing," he added. "We're forgetting why we are in this."

Another top aide expressed chagrin that a single element in the president's sprawling health-care initiative has become a litmus test for whether the administration is serious about the issue.

"It took on a life of its own," he said.

Yes, it took a life of its own. There are too many people out here Obama White House that are depending on you and the Democrats to deliver. We voted for you, worked our asses off for you, dealt with a bunch of crap the past two years, so you should not be surprised or shocked that we are a hardened bunch. We are not playing around here, we want that public option, period. Along with it we want that pre-existing clause to be yanked and removed from all insurances companies language in this country, we want fair and affordable premiums, we want our doctors LISTENED to and not a damn bean counter telling our doctor what treatment WE NEED, we want all of this and Obama White House and D.C. Democrats you better deliver it because you said YOU WOULD.

And after all this playing out for us to see, how the White House did not understand all of this, yes, dammit somebody needs to be fired for this mismanagement of the MESSAGE.


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Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), SNAPS OFF at town hall meeting (Video)

That is how you do it.....



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Heil Hitler at a health care town hall....Is this suppose to be part of the dialouge? (Video)

Only in America....

Conservatives have strenuously denied that there is any anti-Semitism on display by anti-health reform protesters at town hall meetings nationwide — despite all the evidence to the contrary. Last week, Las Vegas radio station KDWN AM720 sponsored a “contentious” town hall, emceed by conservative morning show host Heidi Harris. At the event, local news stations were interviewing an Israeli man who was praising the “fantastic” “national health care” in Israel. During his remarks, a woman yelled out, “Heil Hitler!” The man stopped, became visibly upset, and exclaimed, “Did you hear this? She say to a Jew, ‘Heil Hitler’! Hear? I’m a Jew! You’re telling me, ‘Heil Hitler’? Shame of you!” After he angrily confronts her, the woman mocks him by making a crying sound to imply he is a whining baby. Watch it:

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Republican Congressman encourages bringing GUNS to town hall meetings (Video)

Again, if this was George W. Bush does anyone think that the persons would not have been taken away ASAP? The reason they are armed is all about intimidation. This is a racist ploy, this has been done for YEARS in the South. And Matthews is right, eventually someone is going to get hurt but the real question is, "why are people brining a GUN to a town hall meeting? Can someone explain the LOGIC of that to me?"



I guess someone has to be GUNNED DOWN for the other side to RETREAT. And that is a damn shame.

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President Obama's speech in Grand Junction, Colorado, August 15, 2009 (Full Video and Transcript)

The President holds a town hall on health insurance reform at Central High School in Grand Junction, Colorado. August 15, 2009.



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In Case You Missed It: President Obama's town hall meeting in Montana, August 14, 2009 (Full Video and Transcript)

President Obama holds a town hall in Belgrade, Montana on health insurance reform. Before taking questions from the audience, the President discusses how health insurance reform will benefit all Americans because insurance companies will not be allowed to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions.


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Fear and Ignorance driving people to these town halls (Video)

AMEN, Katie Couric...

At a town meeting hosted by Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania resident stood up to say that the health care debate has "awakened the sleeping giant."

Not exactly.

What's it's done, it seems, is stirred a hornets nest, and uncovered disturbing attitudes and emotions that have nothing to do with policy.

Are we really still debating health care when a man brings a handgun to a church where the President is speaking?

How does a swastika spray-painted on a Congressman's office further a discussion about Medicare?

These are tough and challenging times and lots of people are scared about their jobs and the economy. But we can't let fear and frankly ignorance - drown out the serious debate that needs to take place - about an issue that affects the lives of millions of people.

It's time for everyone to take a deep breath and to focus on the task at hand before this sideshow drowns out the main event.

That's a page from my notebook.

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