{"id":6079,"date":"2009-08-11T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/11\/obama-town-hall-on-health-care\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:33:06","slug":"obama-town-hall-on-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/obama-town-hall-on-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Town Hall on Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched the last twenty minutes or so of the Obama Town Hall on Health Care.  It is verified by the press that the vast majority of people at this town hall were randomly selected.  So, if the Teabaggers are for real, some of them should have been at this town hall mouthing off and disrupting the event.  But there was no one doing that.  The questions being asked were respectfully, though too soft-ball for Obama&#8217;s taste.  He kept requesting harder questions but they were hard to come by.<\/p>\n<p>There was a Libertarian with a 9mm strapped to his leg sauntering around outside making a total ass of himself.  Do people still call themselves libertarians anymore? Or is it just too embarrassing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Senator Claire McCaskill is trying to hold a town hall meeting right now and the teabaggers are closing in, disrupting the meeting, and making general asses of themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched the last twenty minutes or so of the Obama Town Hall on Health Care. It is verified by the press that the vast majority of people at this town hall were randomly selected. So, if the Teabaggers are for real, some of them should have been at this town hall mouthing off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/obama-town-hall-on-health-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama Town Hall on Health Care<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1A3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}