Potemkin Town Hall Meetings

George W. Bush has been traveling throughout the United States to promote his plan to privatize Social Security. Recent "Team Bush" events have been called "conversations," "forums" and "town hall meetings." But these gatherings are hardly public and far from spontanious. Cox News Service's Ken Herman writes, "Regardless of the name, such events are always the same: Bush as congenial host with hand-picked on-stage guests with stories to prove the president's point."