Touchdown: Obama’s Town Hall meetings

Well, that didn’t last long, did it? Barack Obama has spent a lot of time in Washington since his inauguration trying to win support in Congress for his economic stimulus package. But he obviously remembers that the people who AREN’T in Washington are the ones who sent him there, so he was back outside the beltway this week, first to Elkhart, Indiana and then to Fort Myers, Florida, to sell the plan to actual voters. The warm welcomes and comfortable presence before the assembled masses were all sweet optics for Obama, but all you really had to hear was the comment from one gentleman in Florida who prefaced his question with a thank-you for “coming to listen to us – we haven’t seen that for the last eight years.” The President is among the people, listening first-hand to their challenges, and telling them first-hand about his plan to help. That’s the message that came through loud and clear, and that, my friends, is a Touchdown.