A town hall meeting to George Bush meant you went to a place where everyone within 100 square miles voted for you and you invited only those people who were donors or ardent supporters to attend. You told them what to ask and then you told little jokes and pretended to answer the so called questions. Press conferences were rarely held and when they were there were plants in the press corps (at least during the 1st term) who asked "questions" which usually contained glowing compliments and bashed the Democrats. Journalists who were critical of the administration were almost always ignored. Syntax and direct answers were rare. Very often someone had to explain after the fact what George actually meant.
Though the situation is dire it was comforting to hear the President answer questions without reading a prepared card and actually make sense.
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