After 8 Years of Free Speech Zones, the MSM Discovers What "Real" People Look Like

[K Gardner]

This is simply amazing to me. Ever since the Town Hall today - since Henrietta and Julio stood up and spoke their hearts - these two are headliners. As if the media had never seen a real person.

Tweety just said it, straight out: This President has taken us out of Washington. These are REAL people. The Hardball icon seemed astonished that these "real" people could talk and that one expressed themselves differently that he did. Earlier, one of the simpering MSNBC anchors gave Julio a solid thumbs down, stating "You wait all day to see the President and THIS is how you act?"

Well, yes m'am, it is. Millions of "us" out here - millions with heartaches and joys that you know nothing of - and just a few of you in your echo chambers. After eight years of being shut out, penned inside fences, unseen and unheard - our cries and our plights falling on deaf, uncaring ears - we have a President who cares. This excites us. We may shout. More often, we may weep.

Barack Obama hears us. He heard us all along.

Now, you will hear us. All of us.

[rvablue]

1. And you know what is really shining through at these events...

Obama is ENJOYING IT!

It's not window dressing.

It's not a game.

He wants to be among the people and hear what they have to say.

And that sincerity and deep care is radiating from him. And the people feel it.

[old mark]

4. I think he really gains strength from it on some personal level.

I think the fake people in DC bore him.

mark

[EFerrari]

6. There's no house nice enough that would induce me to live with those people

for YEARS.

[IGotAName]

7. Totally agreed.

He's a helluva lot smarter than them and, given that, would rather be with decent people than jerks.


Great point.

[K Gardner]

8. Oh, I so totally agree with this ! He sees right through the fakers in D.C.

[bdamomma]

10. that goes both ways we gain from him and he gains from us.

[K Gardner]

12. Tweety just made this disgusting comment: "Is it dangerous for Obama to get this close to REAL

people? Will he pay a political price if their problems aren't solved? This is what it looks like outside of D.C."

I'm simply amazed these out-of-touch people are framing the debate on crucial issues, amazed.

[EraOfResponsibility]

13. That's Washington, for ya

they're only concerned with how everything looks, instead of actually helping people. As if just showing that you care simply isn't enough to sustain the love of the people.

[EFerrari]

5. Yep. You really can't fake that for long.

What a huge relief Obama is.

[old mark]

9. He already has changed what people expect from their leaders.

Can you imagine going back to a lackwit like W. or an authoritarian, anal type?
People would not stand for it.

mark

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Is there video available of today's meeting? All I find is yesterday's.

Thanks.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Part I and II are posted in the video section here, by kpete. :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[myrna minx]

11. Thanks for the link. I'm watching now. n/t

[Cha]

14. We're all different..we have different personalities

and different energy levels and different stories. Except for propaganda punditheads, of course. They're all the predictable same.

[Crooked Moon]

15. fuzzy math

kudos to obama for facing the american people directly, but free speech zones have a longer history than 8 years and vigilance requires that we understand that segregation of opposing viewpoints is a mindset borne of political expedience, and not necessarily partisanship.

while it might be comforting to lay it solely at the feet of bush, it ultimately does everyone a disservice to revise history.

but, again, bravo for president obama's breaking of that insidious chain.

[K Gardner]

16. Thanks for the history.. 8 yrs ago was the first I'd heard of it, will do some research..thanks !!

[Clio the Leo]

17. I suggest everyone work a little "Julio jumping" into your day.....

.... just jump up and down with glee and flail your arms around as if you're the only one in the room. It will bring you joy ... and all of that movement has to be good for your heart.