Are Town Hall Meetings the Best Thing to Happen to Obama’s Health Care Plan?
Pretty much the only topic President Barack Obama has wanted to discuss in his summer media saturation tour is his health care reform plan. Alas, it frequently seems to be the last thing the cablers covering him prefer to focus on. Health care is complicated and wonky and not at all ideal for the confrontational soundbites that the bread and butter of cable news. Hence the summer thus far — the first since 2006 that isn’t dominated by presidential campaign coverage — has brought us the Birthers and Gates-Gate, and just this week the heroic return of Bill Clinton and the freed journalists. However health care appears to be making a cable comeback in the form of some recent contentious town hall meetings. Yesterday’s raucous gathering in Tampa Florida is dominating headlines today (video below) and earlier this week Arlen Specter and Kathleen Sebelius made unintended news when they were shouted down at a town meeting in Philadelphia. Nothing like a good shout-fest to get everyone on the
