"Obama maintained his unbreakable cool, ......" Yes, Obama is "cool" and that's the kind of no-substance, empty promise image he's been selling for a long time. Personality is one thing, performance is quite another. On personality, Obama would grade pretty high although his LIES bring it down. On performance, he fails miserably........ as does our economy.

Oh, and Beverly's chippy little comment about TBs (apparently meant to disparage members of the Tea Party as teabaggers).......Tea Party advocates have more patriotism in their little fingers than Obama has in his entire body.

I will never understand how we have become a nation that worships a politician, ANY politician, as if they are a rock star.

Bev.one reason you folks in Illinois didn't send out the military absentee ballots is because Democrats know GI's vote a lot more (Google that)Conservatively than most people think.I guess you're saying our military isn't patriotic????

he has to reach out to the young people,thier the only ones that might forgive him for his lies and deciect,and he knows they dont know all the problems he has caused just like dureing his election , half of the young voters didnt even know whoi joe biden was but they are smarter now because he failed to keep his promise;s, but he knows the dems are going to loose big in nov,so he has to go out and make more promise to the young, just to get thier vote.

Winston Churchhill once said'When we are young we are liberal because we have a heart.When we are older,we are Conservative because we have a brain"

Large numbers of young people have better brains than old bigots.

Dangerfield

Thanks for the link but I don't see much of a controversy. I think that the forum was a good way to get a diverse group of people to join in the discussion. From the website noted above the Backstage group's casting call was made public to everyone including conservative sites. It seems to me it is a different approach from what Bush used to do in his crowd selection process.

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Kelly McAndrew, a spokeswoman for Viacom (which owns MTV), said:

"We're just trying to get the broadest, most diverse audience possible. We want to have divergent points of view – we're not looking for a single-view audience.

"We're going to have a very diverse looking audience. We want gender diversity, we want ethnicity diversity, we want religious diversity, we want political view diversity. We want diversity of all kinds."

I think it's very cool that MTV opened up this opportunity to the general public via their casting call, instead of quietly selecting participants behind closed doors.

The story went on to say this about Backstage....

We don't actually cast any of these projects ourselves; we report on casting opportunities for our readers.

the casting call attracted a lot of attention, with Back Stage being linked to from the front page of the DrudgeReport.com and mentioned in articles from the likes of ABCNews.com, Politico.com, USAToday.com, National Review Online, and dozens of other sites. It even became the focus of a segment on a Fox News show this morning.