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I watched the townhall meeting facilitated by Senator Specter. I watched the townhall meeting facilitated by Senator McCaskill. I also partly watched the president in New Hampshire.

What was the common theme of these three townhall meetings?

1. They were all staged.

2. They were all phony assurances made by politicians with no credibility.

3. They all used the same techniques of not allowing dissent to be voiced.

What are my personal conclusions?

1. That Senator Specter cannot be trusted to tell the truth.

2. That Senator McCaskill can chide the crowd as if she was a mother talking to her children all she wants but her message is lost in the rhetoric, talking points and lies that Obama wants her to communicate.

3. That most of all, President Obama is not telling the truth no matter how he spins anything and everything. How can this person have any believability? He has spent all the goodwill and benefit of the doubt that the American people have given him ever since he began to campaign and to run for office. He still thinks he's got the people bamboozled. He still believes that a little bit of razz ma tazz here and a slide there can get him through.

No longer, I am afraid. People have awakened to his lies and constant changing of his story, his statements and his positions. This man is Houdini himself. Slippery as an eel. The worst thing that he does is to act and speak like a child in the playground while he is pointing fingers to those whom he considers to be bullies when in fact he is the biggest bully of all.

How can those people whom he and his staff have handpicked and selected, sit there and act like sheep while his voice drones on and on about "I don't want to hear from those who have created the mess in the first place! I just want them to stay out of the way so I can clean up this mess!" The drugged up crowd exclaims, "Right on! Right on! Amen to that Bro! Blessed be his name!" Is this some kind of a stick ball game in the backyard wherein you make your rules as you go along? Whatever happened to a healthy exchange of ideas? Of debate?

Here is the president prancing about, shucking, jiving, shouting and intoning in his best imitation of a black voice that a healthy debate is what is necessary and needed? But where are those who would represent and champion the other point of view - the voices of dissent? Were these folks allowed to come in and be present during his "highly choreographed and controlled" press conferences and townhall meetings? Or were they banned and tossed out to stand by along the sidewalks carrying their signs while inside his opulent speaking chamber sits a flock of sheep and angora goats?

Smoke and mirrors. What a load of crap. For once, president Obama ought to be honest with the American people and announce that he is having one of his infomercials instead of trying to pass the event off as a legitimate townhall meeting. That way we - the thinking public - would know whether to watch or not, up front.