If you're in the "Town Hall" business, you better know what your constituency wants and you better know how to get it to them. It takes planning and strategy. Whats the big deal? Its not a game show where the participants are getting the questions in advance. Its a political tool in which politicians and voters are getting together to influence policy and determine the direction of the party. The questions in a town hall meeting in Iowa can't possibly be the same as the questions in the Bronx. You meet with the participants and develop issues and responses to best serve each region. Any politician who isn't working with his or her constituency is left out in the cold.
Let me guess. You work for her campaign too, right?
"Its a political tool in which politicians and voters are getting together to influence policy and determine the direction of the party."
Ummmm......wrong. A Town Hall meeting is an opportunity for Americans to ask specific questions of a civil servant seeking a promotion. It's a job interview--one in which Hillary decided that she should tell her proposed boss which questions to ask. What you euphemistically call "getting the message out" is really just Hillary's standard elitist approach when dealing with those annoying little people that pay her salary. The fact is, Hillary was fine with these practices until she got caught because she believes Iowans are too stupid to know what the "important issues" are and can't be trusted to just cooperate and let her promote her agenda. So, SHE decided to make the decisions about what Iowans are concerned about because she knows best.
If you are going to "plant" some questions, make them hard ones. Like, why aren't those gosh darn papers that will show us how much experience you have, be released until 2009, after the elections?
What a world. What a world.
Hillary is a modern polictician. No honesty. No values. Just hype and talking points. How I long for a real candidate to support.