They are calling it a "listening tour", yet all I ever see on the news is Obama giving speeches to the folks in Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. However, one couple did manage to get in a few comments to the President in Iowa as he worked the rope line. Here is the Fox Video:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/15/obama-conversation-with-tea-partier-gets-heated/
Call it another Joe the Plumber moment. Obviously, Obama figured he could buffalo a bunch of corn-cobbers in the heartland before heading off to join his real homies in Martha's Vineyard. It seems it didn't quite work out that way.
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A campaign trip being paid by the taxpayer.
listen, listened, listening, was listening , have been listening;Fosuesquawk, we are the ones who are supposed to listen to the prez of USA resembles a dictatorship. we listened when our history teachers told us we have a representative government, so listen up; our dear republic implies constant exchange of listening/speaking. dictatorships imply one man talking and we just do the listening
Three cheers for the couple in Iowa who gave him something to listen to.
Now that the speed of my intermittent internet access allows me to see the video, the THREE self-styled tea-partiers were very unimpressive.
Gary, do you have a video, or a link to a video, where Biden says, in so many words "the Tea Party are terrorists"? The president denied that he said that, gave a summary of what Biden did say (as far as the president knew, or wanted to say he knew), and what the PRESIDENT said is right on target, whether or not it is what Biden said.
The three "tea party" characters were acting more in the style of hecklers than citizens with a question -- unlike, say, the guy who asked the representative from Evanston where in the constitution it says the government can require him to buy health insurance. That was a straightforward question, even if it was issued as a challenge. Repetitious accusations, without evidence, interrupting every attempt at an answer, is nothing of the kind. The three of them really made asses of themselves (in the donkey sense, not the kind you post cartoons of).
Findalis, campaign trips are not paid for by the taxpayer, EXCEPT for the security that necessarily goes with it. That was true under Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama. As I've said, if you want a standard law saying a sitting president may not campaign, because the security is too great a burden for taxpayers, propose it. Until then, don't expect your petty carping to be taken seriously.
Hecklers? If you want to see hecklers, watch those who gave the what for to Romney. Those were hecklers.
Obama advertised this as a listening tour. If all he has to listen to are his fans then what would he learn?
Mendacious is the nicest thing I can say about your argument Gary.
I didn't say, everyone must agree with the president. I said, three people with common views ganging up on him at the same time, asking repetitious questions, and interrupting the speaker before he has finished an answer, is heckling.
Now, if someone asked a question, paused, waited for the president to give a complete answer, then
a) asked a coherent follow-up question,
or
b) went to the nearest TV camera to spout off on what s/he thought of the president's answer,
that would be someone who disagreed asking a question.
Most first graders could explain the difference.
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