Quote Originally Posted by S2KJD
can't remember the senators name but at her townhall meeting yesterday she asked who has medicare and 80% raised their hands and then she asked who wants it to change and all most all put their hands down, ..
It was Sentaor McCaskel and that was in response to some snotty "libertarian" comment about how "the government can't do anything right". The Senator totally proved that idiot wrong lol.

Quote Originally Posted by shag
but obama, from day 1, has tried to pass himself off as some sort of smooth talking, eloquent genius. well this event, along with others recently, has outted him as being no better than bush in a lot of ways.
He's far from the only politician to take screened questions. This "incident" doesn't really proven anything one way or the other about his eloquence as a speaker or his "genius". Bush couldn't even handle a "gimme" question like that without screwing up.