Tag Archives: Town Halls

Obama’s JFK Mistake: All Glamour, No Game

August 18, 2009 – 9:47 am

When it comes to domestic policy, thus far there is no presidency that Barack Obama’s resembles more than John F. Kennedy’s. This is not a positive statement: Kennedy, equipped with a similarly strong majority on Capitol Hill, was nonetheless a legislatively frustrated president. By mismanaging his health care insurance reform, Obama now risks the same thing.

By Ben Domenech | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments

Mobs and Town Halls: Politics Isn’t All About Kissing Babies

August 18, 2009 – 8:25 am

If I had been back home last weekend, I would have joined my mother, my brother, my friends and my neighbors at that town hall asking questions, searching for what I could do to change the course of this debate, change the tenor of things in Washington, and get reforms from Capitol Hill that make things better, not just hand things over to more bureaucracy. If that means that I am the mob, so be it.

By Brad Jackson | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments

Town Halls, Protesters, Astroturf and the Return of the Perotistas

August 8, 2009 – 6:22 pm

The surge in expressions of protest at the recent town hall meetings have many ramifications, but it’s important to note the miscalculations of both sides about the nature of these protesters, and the potential political outcomes of their fomented frustration.

By Ben Domenech | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments
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