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More Fallout from the Town Hall…


This time it's national.

From Huffington Post:

For more than three hours Monday night, Rep. Brian Baird was verbally flogged by hundreds of his constituents for no longer supporting the quick withdrawal of troops from Iraq. More than 500 people packed a high school auditorium in Vancouver while another 175 or so were unable to get inside. And virtually everyone who got a chance to address the Vancouver Democrat were harshly critical - including several who said they had been long-time supporters and friends. "You have just broken my heart," said Phil Massey, a Vancouver ship's pilot who wasn't swayed by Baird's explanation that the U.S. was finally starting to make some progress in bringing peace to Iraq. "You have screwed up, my friend. You have screwed up and you have to change course."

And Think Progress, which unfortunately uses KATU's calculated, on-message video report, but at least it's hitting the big time.

Read and watch here.

Also Crooks N' Liars, which links the the Oregonian, so you don't have to go there yourself.

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This entry was written by Rich and posted on August 28, 2007 at 12:28 pm and filed under Baird, Brian. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. Firedoglake has another post this morning.

    It’s becoming apparent that these people are being bombarded with such bad information, so many experts’ whose only expertise seems to be at abject failure, that they can’t see the patently obvious any more. Watch the YouTube above. Baird’s constituents are sputtering with rage as he sits there and rubs snake oil all over his head and says see, really, it makes the hair grow, just like the guy said. You just watch.’

    Being the Michael O’Hanlon of the House may make him the darling of CNN and MSNBC, but the voters in his district who elected him as an anti-war candidate seem somewhat less than thrilled.

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    1. Above comment written by bushtoolNo Gravatar on August 28th, 2007 at 2:34 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).
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