Social Security: On With the Show – President’s ‘Conversations’ on Issue Are Carefully Orchestrated, Rehearsed – By Jim VandeHei and Peter Baker

“The night before the event, the chosen participants gathered for a rehearsal in the hall in which the president would appear the next day. An official dispatched by the White House played the president and asked questions. “We ran through it five times before the president got there,” Darr said. ”

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“Imagine a “conversation” where one person does all the talking, except for a few laudatory comments from well-wishers, while those who speak up in disagreement are forcibly removed from sight before anyone can hear what they say.

That is what the White House is calling “A Conversation on Strengthening Social Security” — when the president appears in middle America, as he did here on March 10, to promote his ideas for changing the nation’s 70-year-old retirement system.” By Craig Crawford, Congressional Quarterly Columnist
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