We have met the bogeyman, and he is us | National Politics | Online Forum

Amy Kane went to the Portsmouth NH Obamacare event and came away with some interesting observations and photos. Such as this one:

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We can argue about who is \"grassroots\" and who is \"astroturf\" – the guy who typed and printed a sign off his computer, or the gal who met the community organizer and picked up the professionally printed sign, paid for by the AFL-CIO.

But neither one of them would have been there yesterday, demonstrating outside President Obama's Health Care Town Hall, unless they cared about the issue.

The name-calling, the focus on tactics, the assumptions about motivation, the playing up of the 'violence' and fringe elements, the labeling people as 'misinformed' – these things are a distraction, just like the president said. Except that ** you don't have permission to see this link **.

\"People who want to keep things the way they are will try to scare the heck out of folks and they'll create bogeymen out there that just aren't real.\"

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\"Where we do disagree, let's disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations,\" he said.

However, there is still the issue of what is real. People are combing through the legislation so far proposed and they have a lot of observations and legitimate questions, none of which seem to have been asked or answered yesterday in the Portsmouth High School gymnasium.

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