The Obama Method
Obama's now taking questions from the crowd. He started with a question I haven't heard before...A UT computer science major asked about the US Patent Office being too slow to issue patents. Obama gave a tiered answer, and has continued to do so pretty gracefully ever since the town hall began. His answers fall into a general pattern:
1.) General exposition on the topic
2.) Proposed Solution, broken down into "point number one", followed by "point number two" (occassionally a "number three")
3.) Tying the answer to the War in Iraq in someway... sometimes directly, sometimes peripherally
What do you think of the original Political Junkie?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1930201