As we are all aware, Obama is starting to tour America selling the Obamacare program to town halls.

In the town hall in New Hampshire, a sweet little girl asked:

“How do kids know what is true, and why do people want a new system that can — that help more of us?”

Touching moment.  Cute kid.  Looks so genuine.  Until one realizes that her mom is a big time contributor to the Obama campaign.

Manning Hall has donated thousands of dollars to Obama, as has her law firm.

Click for link to Michelle Malkin’s article for more.

Obama seems to surround himself with supporters, taking soft ball questions that enable him to expound on his agenda.

Michelle Malkin has an article tracking the ringers.

In July, Obama hosted a White House citizen town hall that featured three face-to-face questions. The lucky three?

* Debby Smith, however, is no ordinary patient. While she may be “unemployed,” she has been rather busy working for the Obama campaign – as a volunteer for the DNC’s Organizing for America. Smith also identified herself as a worker for the Virginia Organizing Project, which has been coordinating lobbying trips and health care forums with HCAN. Yes, that same HCAN. In December, Smith moderated a “a community discussion on health care issues” in Appalachia, Virginia and told her local paper that the meeting “would be reported back to former Sen. Tom Daschle, who has been directed by President Elect Barack Obama to form a committee to report on health care issues.”

*Jason Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum works for the Washington, D.C.-based Health Care for America Now (HCAN). That’s the K Street Astroturf outfit with a $40 million budget to lobby for government-run health care linked to left-wing billionaire George Soros. And yes, the same HCAN directing its mob to “drown out” opponents at town hall meetings.

*SEIU member. Yes, wonder of wonders, this randomly chosen questioner just happened to be a member of the Purple Shirt Army that poured $80 million in independent expenditures into Democrat coffers, made 4.4 million phone calls for Obama, sent out more than 2.5 million Obama mailings during the 2008 campaign, and dispatched thugs to drown out town hall protesters.

In March, the White House conducted a similar health reform town hall with more human Obamacare props (full transcript here). Five lucky questioners were chosen “randomly” to talk directly with the president in the East Room about their concerns, including:

*Linda Bock. She’s a registered nurse — and a card-carrying member of the SEIU in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

*Carlos Del Toro. Via WaPo: “In 2007, Del Toro stood as a Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates, but did not win. A supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic presidential primaries, he backed Obama against McCain in the general, endorsing him in an Oct. 24, 2008 op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star.”

*Tom Sawner. I’ll let him speak for himself:

Sir, I’m Tom Sawner. I’m a service-disabled veteran, small-business owner in Arlington, Virginia. My company, Educational Options, works with public schools. We serve more than 200,000 at-risk kids within public schools, providing online content, partnering with teachers, and I was honored to serve on your education platform committee.

*Bonnee Breese. Public school teacher, prominent AFT union member, and member of the 11,626-person Pennsylvania for Obama page on Facebook.

*Sergio Salmeron. Democrat National Committee member and community blogger at Organizing for America.

It looks more like a shell game than a true town hall meeting.  Where is the discussion and debate, if only one side is talking?  These meetings seem to be scripted events, only supporters asking softball questions that allow Obama to sell his merchandise.

There is another thought that really scares me, though.  Obama seems to be surrounded by yes men.  Does he even know the growing outrage of large amounts of American citizens?  Does he see us?  Does he hear us?  Or, is he wrapped in a safety blanket, surrounded by people who tell him how wonderful he is and who keep him from seeing the truth?

I only ask, because I can think of two historical examples of similar isolated rulership

1)  Louis XVI of France.  Grew up in the isolated splendor of Versailles.  Unaware of the growing unrest of his subjects, he was that fallguy for the French Revolution.  Leads to decades of turmoil, the guillotine, masses of citizens executed by blood thirsty mobs.

2)  Nicolas II of Russia.  He and his family were isolated from the masses of citizens whose unhappiness was growing.  His entire family was eventually executed in a basement.  His country fell to Lenin, and we all know the rest.

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