How Lucky Can You Get?
What are the odds…
That in an audience of 200, the three persons called on to ask questions, all just happen to be associates of organizations which support the position of the person being questioned.
A Pitch on Health Care To Virginia And Beyond
Obama Hears From Guests and Twitter
By Michael D. Shear and Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 2, 2009President Obama offered a wonkish defense of his embattled health-care reform effort during an hour-long town hall meeting in Northern Virginia yesterday that featured seven questions, including one sent via Twitter and several from a handpicked audience of supporters.
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The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence.
Sure it was.
