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Town Hall Debate

What A Real Town Hall Looks Like

Alex Green | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Waltham-Massachusetts, Town Hall Meetings, boston.com, Christopher Hitchens, Waltham Daily News Tribune, Barney Frank, Politics News
Alex Green

Can this be done anywhere? Yes. Is it without difficulty? No. But is it easier than we think to organize 25 political figures over four weeks with a small group and no money? Yes.

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"...And to the Republic for Which it Stands..."

Gary Hart | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Public Policy, Town Halls, Town Hall Debate, Pledge of Allegiance, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Gary Hart

Shouting at town hall meetings may vent anger, but it is not sufficient to eliminate corruption in American government. Exercising popular sovereignty through constructive civic duty, though, would be a start.

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Inspired Democracy: The Debate Table

Alexia Parks | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Paul Simon, Town Hall Debate, Obama, Afghanistan, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Living News
Alexia Parks

"What have you done in your own community since Obama was elected president?" they challenged the audience. So I picked up the card and wrote down: "I hosted a Democracy Debate Table."

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Billy the Kid and the Town Hall Meeting

Susan L. Travis | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Racism, Town Hall Debate, Town Hall Meetings, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Susan L. Travis

Despite the political backdrop, our town hall meeting was mercifully spared the guns and swastikas of the six o'clock news.

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Health Care Reform is the New Gay Marriage

Morgan Warners | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Tea Bag Parties, Tax Day Tea Party, Modernity, Tea Bag, Tea Baggers, Tea Party, Tea Bagging, Gay Rights, Evangelical Christians, Economy, Christianity, Globalization, Gay, Gay Marriage, Health Care Town Halls, Town Hall Debate, Tea Party Protests, Town Hall Debate Reaction, Town Halls, Town Hall Meetings, Media News
Morgan Warners

Gay marriage and our increasingly obvious interconnectedness present threats to traditions and ways of doing things that many of us think should change. In that regard, health reform is the new gay marriage.

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The Republican Death March on Health Care

Susan J. Demas | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Health Care Town Halls, Birthers, Obama Healthcare, Jennifer Granholm, Sonia Sotomayor, Health Care Reform, Obama Poll Numbers, Republican Health Care Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Barack Obama, Republicans, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
Susan J. Demas

Thanks to the town hall turmoil from bigots, birthers and assorted miscreants, Republicans can savor a sugar-high on health care -- a decadent and ultimately short-lived victory.

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Health Care & Town Halls

George Mitrovich | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Town Hall Debate, Susan Davis, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
George Mitrovich

I drove to a middle school in the Spring Valley area of San Diego to moderate a "town hall" meeting on health care.

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Two Ways To Be A Part Of The Health Reform Debate

Morgan Jindrich | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Town Hall Debate, Letter to the Editor, Volunteering, Town Hall Meetings, Living News
Morgan Jindrich

You can make a real difference right now by attending a town hall meeting (there are hundreds across the country) or by writing a letter to your local paper and setting the record straight.

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Mark Kirk To Host Health Care Townhall

Daily Herald | Russell Lissau | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Health Care Reform, Town Hall Debate, Mark Kirk, Kirk Townhall Debate, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Chicago News

As the battle over President Obama's health care reform plan continues to roil, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk today will hold the Northwest suburbs' first town ...

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Bill O'Reilly vs. Jon Stewart: Howard Kurtz's Reliable Sources On Description Of Protesters (VIDEO)

Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Howard Kurtz, Town Hall Debate, Video, Reliable Sources, Jon Stewart, Cnn, Fox News, Health Care Protesters, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News

The recent spat between Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart over FOX News' handling of health care reform protesters got some air time Sunday morning on CNN...

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Guns, Guns, Everywhere

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Town Hall Debate, National Rifle Association, Concealed Carry, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Gun Control, Nra, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Guns, Timothy McVeigh, Guns at Town Halls, Second Amendment, Politics News
Dennis A. Henigan

It is important not to treat these incidents of public gun-carrying as merely the misguided behavior of a few. It is more than that; the acting out of central tenets of the extremist "gun rights" ideology.

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The President Belongs To All Of Us

Paul Helmke | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Town Hall Debate, Rahm Emanuel, Janet Napolitano, David Axelrod, Secret Service, Gun Control, Jim Brady, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Guns, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Robert Gibbs' cavalier response to protesters carrying guns to presidential events was tone-deaf. This isn't a political issue and it isn't about the Second Amendment.

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Our Existing Public Option

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Unversities, Public Health Insurance Plan, Public Option, Public Health Care Option, Democratic Health Care Plan, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Healthcare System, Universal Healthcare, Public-vs-Private-Universities, Healthcare Debate, Private Insurance, University, Harvard University, Healthcare Reform, Private Insurance Industry, Healthcare Costs, Politics News
Terry Curtis Fox

Private insurance companies don't want to be good capitalists and innovate. They fear competition because they are in a position where they don't need to provide a better service.

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Bogged Down By Special Interest, Health Care Reform Becomes a Political Tool Instead of a People's Right

Dr. Erika Schwartz | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Cinergy, Big Pharma, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Healthcare System, Healthy Lifestyle, Universal Healthcare, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Pharmaceutical Industry, Primary Care, Special Interest Groups, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Dr. Erika Schwartz

Do not allow America to continue being manipulated by special interest groups and help the people of America understand that they must control their own fate.

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No One Wants to Talk About Their Idiots

Bill Shireman | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Americans for Prosperity, Sean Hannity, Barney Frank, Town Halls, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Idiots, Politics News
Bill Shireman

We need a third political movement in this country -- not today's ideological right or left, who pander to idiots, but a group of radical centrists who step past their initial ignorance, fear, and prejudice, and actually think through solutions to our problems, borrowing ideas from all sides.

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Teabaggers Are To Congresspeople What Union-Busters Are To Workers

Mike Elk | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Efca, Birthers, Town Hall Debate, Teabagging, Unions, Betty-Castor, Politics News
Mike Elk

The right wing is creating a climate of fear in which no logical argument can be made.

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Health Care: I Hate Everyone, Part 1 in a Series

Nato Green | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Mental Health, Nazis, John Kerry, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Right Wing, Adolf Hitler, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Politics News
Nato Green

The anti-health care stormtroopers demonstrate that you can get a long way with no argument if you sell it. It seems like the Town Hallers are all seeking revenge on an uninsured ex.

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Do Progressives Have What It Takes To Win?

Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Darcy Burner, Karl Rove, Netroots Nation, H.L. Mencken, Dick Polman, John Kerry, Rick Perlstein, P.T. Barnum, Dick Durbin, Progressives, Al Gore, Health Care, Dukakis, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Healthcare System, Universal Healthcare, Mencken, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

Conservatives believe -- with justification -- that if they get angry enough and loud enough, liberals will back down from fights like this one.

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RIP Robert Novak

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Robert Novak, Catholic Church, Town Hall Debate, Jack Kemp, Catholicism, Capital Gains Taxes, George W. Bush, Born-Again-Christians, Republican-Values, Republican Party, Town Hall Meetings, Media News
Ron Mwangaguhunga

Novak, aware of that natural weakness in his personality, never tired of seeking a more harmonious sense of being. That, I think, is what made Novak ultimately a good man.

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Have Patience: Republicans Are Working Their Way Through the Five Stages of Grieving

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Denial, Health Care, Gop, Anger, Millennial Generation, Hispanics, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Healthcare System, On-Death-and-Dying, GOP Debate, Universal Healthcare, Republican Leadership, Obama Town Hall, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Extreme Right Wing, Healthcare, Politics News
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

Suffering from a series of unexpected and unexplainable defeats, Republicans are likely to go off on a prolonged period of silence and eventually die for lack of political support.

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The Dangerous Joining of the Far Right and Far Left

Lanny Davis | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Liberal Blogosphere, Blogosphere, Town Hall Debate, Healthcare System, Demonization, Democratic-Party-Ideological-Divide, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Extreme Right Wing, Ideological-Divide, Healthcare, Politics News
Lanny Davis

When the far left and the far right join in the Politics of Hate and Demonization, it is time for the vast center-left and center-right of this country to speak up and call them out equally.

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Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal

Thom Hartmann | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare, President Obama, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Dick Armey, Healthcare System, Blue Cross, Medicare for All, Reagan Tax Cuts, Chuck Grassley, Medicare Bill, Sarah Palin, Max Baucus, Aarp, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Newt Gingrich, Town Hall Meetings, Healthcare, Politics News
Thom Hartmann

Most of us will do damn near anything to get out from under the thumbs of the multi-millionaire CEOs who are running our current insurance programs. Sign me up!

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It's Not Over Until You've Tried These Six Things, Mr. President

Rob Warmowski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Socialism, Medicare, Health Insurance, Town Hall Meetings, No-Insurance, Town Hall Debate, Death Panels, Underinsurance, Insurance Costs, Health-Fair, Town Hall Debate Reaction, Cigna, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Socialized Medicine, Religion and Politics, Doctors, Obama Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Rob Warmowski

Notice that the insurance industry-funded opposition to reform is well-managed enough to not send shouters and swastika sign-wavers to the town halls you are scheduled to appear at.

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We are Mortal - Grow Up and Plan Accordingly

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Kill Granny, Healthcare Debate, Palin Death Panels, Town Hall Meetings, Town Hall Debate, Fear-Mongering, Health Care, Finance Committee, Health Care Reform, Media News, Death Panels, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Barbara Coombs Lee

National leaders deliberately sparked fear and anger over a consultation about death and sensational media threw fuel on the fire.

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The Last Story on Reforming Health Care: We Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Fox TV, Fear-Mongering, Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself, Sarah Palin, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Ann Coulter, Universal Healthcare, Healthcare Debate, Private Insurance, Sean Hannity, National Health Service, Town Hall Meetings, Private Insurance Industry, Healthcare Costs, Politics News
Miles J. Zaremski

The debate over health care reform has turned to politics of fear and fear-mongering, instead of focusing on facts and reality.

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