I saw a few minutes of the President’s town hall meeting today. The answers I watched him give made me realize a couple of things that might be helpful to the White House in the health care debate:
• The health care plan the President is talking about bears little resemblance to the bills working their way through Congress at this time.
• The President often repeats a phrase, “Nobody is talking about…” followed by a statement that many health care reform supporters in his party are in fact talking about, frequently and fervently.
The above two points are, in my opinion, the biggest problems facing both supporters and opponents of the current proposals.
• The President is pretty good at the town hall format. Instead of hand picking safe audiences for the President to speak to, the White House should fill an auditorium with reform opponents; not the folks that will scream at him because that won’t solve anything.
o He needs the audience to be made up of highly intelligent opponents so that he can respond in depth. He seems to be dumbing his answers down.
Just my thoughts.
