... participants from all over the country, including many people from my district who would never have been able to make such an event in person. I had an amazing set of panelists (including McJoan moderating), we answered real questions submitted by real people, we had a substantive discussion of our policies and the realties on the ground, and started to look at where we can go from here. I think we created a model for how these can work, both on this issue and on others.
In particular, I was proud of the exchanges between Jon Soltz of VoteVets, retired Navy Captain Larry Seaquist (former commander of the U.S.S. Iowa), and Professor Clark Lombardi (a specialist in comparative law who just got back from Iraq) about some of the military and political realities.
We’ll have the video of the town hall up on our website sometime next week, for those of you who would like to watch.Link:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/29/123814/423 "We the People ..." are beginning to realize that the single most important person in American politics is each of us - i.e., YOU.