Painting by maze creek studiosUpdate: For all you right wingers out there, the email about lobsters is a total made up lie. You've been had. Congratulations!
Update Aug. 14: Town Hall over. See video here.
Update Aug. 13: Camping out for tickets, both supporters and opponents. Tea partiers will be there with bags on. I'm hoping Obama gets challenged, in a respectful manner. I'm hoping for some tough questions.
The town hall will be held at the Gallatin Field Airport at 2:55 pm. This town hall will be live streamed at cnn.com or msnbc.com.
Everyone keeps saying August is the month that kills legislation, so right up until Obama leaves for the family Martha's Vineyard vacation, he'll probably keep doing town halls throughout the country pushing what's now being called "health insurance" reform. Michelle Obama will be at the Bozeman event.
The following day, Aug. 15, the Obama family will visit Yellowstone, Wyoming and Grand Junction Colo., where Obama will hold another town hall, followed up by the Grand Canyon on Aug. 16. Obama will also give a speech that day at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. The Obamas are promoting national parks on a fee free weekend:
President Barack Obama will be visiting Bozeman next Friday, where he's expected to hold a "town hall" meeting on health-care reform, sources told the Gazette State Bureau today.
The White House declined to confirm the president's plans, and state Democratic Party officials also had nothing to say about it publicly.
However, officials in Bozeman confirmed that Obama plans to visit the area next week.
Mayor Kaaren Jacobsen told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle that the president is coming to town, but had no other details.
The Gazette State Bureau learned that Obama is planning to fly into Bozeman on Aug. 14 and hold a town hall meeting, perhaps at an airport hangar at Gallatin Field Airport.
The president, accompanied by his wife, Michelle, also is expected to stay overnight in the area. More at the Billings Gazette
