Bob McCarty Writes

Anytime you have thousands of voting-age people assembled in one room, you can count on politicians to be there, too.  That was the case Wednesday morning when more than 2,200 people gathered at the St. Charles (Mo.) Convention Center hours ahead of President Barack Obama’s arrival in the St. Louis suburb.
Below are the Top 10 [...]

[Read more →]

More than 2,200 people packed the health care town hall meeting Wednesday morning in St. Charles, Mo.  Even if they had wanted to skew their coverage, the overwhelming anti-ObamaCare sentiment at the St. Charles Convention Center likely convinced them otherwise.
Below are video clips of the coverage of the meeting provided by three St. Louis television [...]

[Read more →]

Though President Barack Obama came to the St. Louis area to talk primarily about health care, many of the people who attended a health care town hall meeting in St. Charles, Mo., Wednesday morning had more than just health care on their minds.  Prior to the meeting, I spoke with several of them.  Their comments [...]

[Read more →]

During an interview prior to the health care town hall meeting hosted by U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) this morning in St. Charles, Mo., I spoke with Joe DeVincent, a government retiree from nearby Wentzville, about the prospects of government-run health care (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”).  He expressed deep reservations about ObamaCare based, in part, on his [...]

[Read more →]

It was no accident that, less than six hours before President Barack Obama was scheduled to arrive at St. Charles (Mo.) High School and make a push for government-run health care, more than 2,200 people turned out at the St. Charles Convention Center for a health care town hall meeting hosted by U.S. Rep. Todd [...]

[Read more →]