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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Posted by: John & Cisco at 1:09 PM

President Obama's townhall meeting yesterday was more civil than most, which may have something to do with the DNC paying people to come out and support it. Sen. Claire McCaskill though ended up sounding like a teacher or an angry soccer mom.
Arlen Specter townhall may have gone the worst. He falsely said that polls show that people are in favor of single payer health care.
President Obama implied at his town hall that doctors may decide to amputate the feet of a diabetic patient instead of working on a diet.
Lt. Col. Jeff Addicott is a former green beret and is now the Director of the Center for Terrorism Law. He joined Cisco to talk about the recent resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Obama fielded a very friendly question from an 11 year old at his townhall yesterday. It turns out that her mother was a big Obama donor and has been working on promoting the health care plan.
Mayor Daley says that taxes are going up, but not as much as they could. So that doesn't really count. Do you agree?
A couple of months ago the DHS released a report saying that veterans could come back from combat and become terrorists. It turns out that they had virtually no data to back up that claim.
Democrats have been acusing Republicans of paying operatives to oppose ObamaCare, but posts on Craigslist offer people money to go to townhall meetings in support of ObamaCare. Cisco talked to Erick Erickson, the editor in chief of Redstate.com, the website that found the Craigslist postings.