In case you thought Obama was in the real world of Town Hall citizenship... Obama Town Hall Questioners Were Campaign Backers By Garance Franke-Ruta The Washington Post http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/27/obama_town_hall_questioners_we.html?hpid=topnews While the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama's campaign in 2008.
I concluded during the Clinton years that nobody cares. Clinton was the most breathtaking phony in history and nobody cared since things were going well. If things don't go well, you could be a prince of a fellow and still get burned at the stake.