McCain Speaks With Angry Crowd at Ariz. Town Hall

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/26/us/AP-US-Health-Care-McCain.html

Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave.

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After McCain opened it up to questioning, one man angrily pointed at him and asked the senator why he deserves a better health care plan than him.

''I'm trying to get it for you,'' McCain told him. ''We'll do it for you. We'll make it affordable and available to you.''

Other audience members in the crowd of 2,000 told McCain about their medical problems, such as HIV and multiple sclerosis.

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When McCain was trying to answer questions from reporters after the town hall, one audience member yelled at him that he gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from insurance companies every year.

In a voice of feigned surprise, McCain said ''Really? I didn't know that.''

[saltpoint]

1. God, McCain is such a wretched excuse for a public servant.

[Robeysays]

10. tell me about it.

and he doesn't even represent you. :(

[saltpoint]

11. And thank Jesus he doesn't.

Hi, Robeysays. McCain is still mired in 1924. The America he sees out the window is a pre-Depression America, and he tried to graft it onto the current reality in the last election and got whomped.

[JamesA1102]

2. Odd this one didn't get the glowing cable coverage that his

Tuesday town hall meeting got.

[HughMoran]

3. Hmmm, has the sleeping giant been stirred?

Perhaps it's not who screams loud first, but who still has a voice when it gets down to crunch time.

[patrice]

4. feigned surprise: I always hear an under-tow of snotty contempt when I listen to McShame

sometimes thinly veiled with condescending "nice"

[ddeclue]

5. He's got a tiger by the tail... never under estimate teh krazee..

[sam sarrha]

6. my ReThug brother, limited fixed income no insurance.. is beyond beligerant about health care reform

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. He and Kyl are total douchebags.

I am so tired of allowing these political pawns free reign to spew their BS.

[patrice]

8. Why don't people notice how McLame talks down to them?

[mzmolly]

9. ''Really? I didn't know that.'' McCain reminds me of an aged Beavis.