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Video- Obama writes student a note for missing school

Too damned cute. Must be used to writing notes for kids missing school.

A man stood to ask a question and said he had his 10-year-old daughter with him and she was skipping her last day at school to be there.

"I hope she doesn't get in trouble," the man said.

"Does she need me to write a note?" the president asked. "No, I'm serious."

The president asked the girl's name -- Kennedy.

"That's a cool name," the president said, then wrote a note on the lectern, stepped down into the audience and delivered the note to the girl.

LIVE: Obama holds town hall meeting in Strasbourg, France

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He's going to take questions? This should be interesting

OnlineTown Hall

Now going on here and here.

Townhall: Michelle Obama is a Bitch, Get It?

By GottaLaff

My buddy Mark Karlin at Buzzflash forwarded me this piece from HuffPo. It's wrong on a million levels, but it is especially disappointing to Mark and me. We are both former Prelutsky readers. We used to appreciate his writing. But he is not the Burt we once knew. Not at all:

Burt Prelutsky was a TV writer a long time ago. Then he aged out of it and became a crank. [...] Now he writes a column for Townhall.com, the popular website owned by a Christian radio network.

Here's something from his current offering:

Take Michelle Obama...please.

Ohgod, wasn't that hilarious? Ya see what he did there? He took the Henny Youngman line and applied it to the first lady! See that? What a wit. Or should I say "half wit".

Every time I turn around, there she is on a magazine cover. Now, normally, like the Mafia, I lay off the spouses, but inasmuch as this particular spouse attended the same racist church as her hubby for 20 years, I'll make an exception in her case. After all, in spite of the fact that affirmative action got her an Ivy League degree and a $7,000-a-week salary and, moreover, has sent billions of dollars for no particularly good reason to Africa, she insists this is a mean country. The burning question in my circle is: if the First Family gets a female dog, will she be the First Bitch or will she have to settle for second place?

Get it? Because "bitch" had two meanings!

Disrespectful doesn't even begin to say it. Neither does rude, insulting, offensive, or disgusting.

You can read the rest at Townhall. The Internet home of culture warriors Dennis Prager, Bill Bennett and Michael Medved.

(Who have all, by the way, written about Barack Obama's horrible, shocking association with that racist hatemonger Jeremiah Wright. Who called America an ugly black bitch. Oh wait, he didn't.)

(They've also all written columns bemoaning how angry and mean liberal humor is.)

You'll have to follow the link for more of Burt's pearls of wisdom. I won't waste space here, nor will I soil TPC with more of his words.

The executive editor of Townhall is Hugh Hewitt. His current column is about how terribly offended he was when Barack Obama made a joke about the Special Olympics:

We should hope President Obama makes more than apology. We should hope he makes good.

Obama made a bad joke, yes, but it wasn't intended to disparage. He apologized to the chairman of the Special Olympics before the Leno show was even aired.

On the other hand, Townhallers, those paragons of virtue, what with their carefully-crafted attempts at humor and all, have yet to acknowledge their bile. "Making good" isn't on their agenda.

Conversely, the president has "made more good" in the weeks he's been in office than we've witnessed in the past 8 years... unless you consider a secret dictatorship and blatant war crimes "making good".

Oh, the Christian broadcasters who own Townhall, the site that says Michelle Obama is a bitch and Will Smith is lucky he's not picking cotton is Salem Communications. You can thank them here.

Be extra crispy specific. Sincere thank yous should always be specific or they don't count.

UPDATE: The piece was removed with no indication of it being altered, per my Twitter pal Cody Kessler.

President Obama Townhall In Los Angeles

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Obama Town Hall- Costa Mesa, CA

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This is the longest piece I could find so far, about 20 minutes. If I find a longer bit, I'll replace it.

TV Alert

Ed Schultz sitting in for David Shuster on 1600 on MSNBC, and Hardball is going to cover the Obama Town Hall in California live at 7p EST.

ADDED- It's already started at 650p EST.

ADDED ADDED- • NBC's The Tonight Show (11:35pmET): Countdown host Keith Olbermann will be a guest of Jay Leno's tonight.

Pres Obama Questioner "Julio" On COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann

G-d bless his goofy little soul.

"Get Him A 6-Pack of Budweiser and We'll Meet Hannity Wherever He Wants To Go"

Mystery solved, it's Budweiser.

McCain Town Hall Was Screened

Shocker!!! (not) I'm sure they weren't lacking for McCain/Palin groupies (Grand Rapids being one of my old hometowns and very GOP-centric), but this idea that they're taking questions from "anyone" is just bullshit.

Sen. John McCain's town hall style meetings "are generally open to the public where anyone may wait in line on the day of the event and come in without an advanced invitation," according to Fox News.

However, at last night's 3,500 person townhall in Michigan -- "the first time Palin is taking questions from the public -- only ticketholders are allowed in. People had to pick up their tickets at local GOP offices after RSVPing for the event."

Speaky McTownHall: A preview

By GottaLaff

J Sid's going all town hall-y on us:

Workers rebuilt the convention stage to resemble a "theater in the round" to enable McCain to appear in the kind of town-hall setting that he enjoys on the campaign trail.

Here's a preview:

Watch the argument evolve from "change" to "reform."

McCain knows he can't win the election if he's seen as a Republican -- especially if he's seen as a right-wing Republican.

There will be many criticisms of the Republican Party. Probably more than criticisms of the Democratic Party.

McCain will focus on the battles he's had with his party and make the contrast: has Obama ever taken on his party when it was politically inexpedient?

He'll talk about consensus, compromise, respectful disagreement.

There will be references to judgment and the surge. And some self-deprecating humor.

There will be fewer attacks on Obama than the number of attacks Obama launched on McCain. (So they say.)

I wonder if they'll remember to stay away from green backdrops.

Townhalls Are Supposed To Be McCain's Strength?

Painful. Via TPM.

"The victory cry is heard across the land..."

By Paddy


John Cole finds a crazy cookie-

An Obama presidency would signal the final salvo by the Left in the culture wars. Obama’s advance troops have already taken over our college campuses, have bound and gagged our conservative professors, have ravished our virgins, have pillaged our stores of wisdom, and have ensconced themselves in the thrones of power in deans’, presidents’ and department heads’ offices.

The victory cry is heard across the land in the cheers of Obama’s constituency on college campuses.