The President is Coming! The President is Coming!

The President is coming to NH today. It’s promising to be one of the wildest town hall meetings ever! Despite the lack of civility displayed by opponents of health care reform, the President is embracing the challenge to take questions from a live, mixed audience of participants. I hope he can pull it off.

This is quite a contrast to visits we had from President Bush. I know an 80 year old woman who painted a sign protesting the Iraq war. She was told to move further away from eye shot of the President on a motorcade through Hudson, NH. She refused to move, stating her right of assembly of free speech. The police arrested her and put her in jail. When she appeared in court several months later, after everyone forgot President Bush had been there, the judge found her innocent, but that never made any news.

Let’s hope anti- health care protestors are not treated in the same way.