Reply #6: Well, the LaRouchies were there.

[TayTay]

There were 3 of them and 2 got to ask questions and this ate up at least half the question time. These rude people won't let anyone else speak and they interrupt the answers and monopolize the conversation. They really have to have the moderator announce at the beginning of question period that everyone get 1 question and 3 minutes, otherwise no one else gets to speak and we have to put up with "the crazy" instead of real questions from real people.

These 3 LaRouchies were waiting outside of the hall to talk to attendees after the event. They began their spiel when my husband and I came out. I let these folks have it, verbally. The woman in charge was the same woman who got into it in Barney Frank at a health care forum last summer. (She is now running for Barney Frank's seat, btw.) I cannot stand these people. Their "Obama as Hitler" (or Bush as Hitler, etc) posters are an abomination.

That was an interesting moment. I flat out told this woman that she was crazy and I had no interest in talking to her or her buddies. Oddly enough, she contested being labeled "crazy" and got defensive. I told her that anyone who belittles the Holocaust or the suffering of millions of people under the Nazis wasn't deserving of serious discussion. I told her and she and her LaRouchie buddies were disgusting. (And I think I called them friggin bastids as well.) Their point is to cheapen discussion and demean anyone who disagrees with them by likening them to the worst murderers of the last century. Then my husband pulled me away before I got entangled in a further discussion with crazy people. (Have I ever mentioned that I can't stand LaRouchies?) I did get a lot of approving looks from others in attendance and some smiles from people I knew there.