I just got through listening to President Obama’s Town Hall meeting about health care reform.   This is the meeting that was held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and it was aired live by C-SPAN..

If I can find a link to the rebroadcast, I will post it here. Well here is the Montana one.

The following comment is both a tribute to the President and an unfortunate fact. Nobody can speak in defense of his priorities as well as he can.  Of course, he did have the advantage of getting to speak.  Nevertheless, I doubt that there are many members of Congress who would have had the breadth of knowledge and the ability to address the legitimate concerns of the attendees of the meeting.

The ability of President Obama to listen to real concerns that people have and to address those concerns as he formulates policy is one of the traits that I thought I saw as he ran for President.  This is exactly why I thought he would make a better President than some other candidates who had very similar policy ideas.

I was of course concerned about a candidate’s stand on the issues that we knew about at the time.  However, I also wanted a President I could trust to handle the issues that would come up later. The issues that we had no ability to predict that they would become issues were the ones I wanted to be covered by my choice of President.  History has shown time and again, that unpredictable issues do arise.