Live Town Hall -Streaming Now - Updated

I apologize for the brevity.

As previously diaried here  by bewert, the next President of The United States is doing a live Town Hall in Bend, Oregon, beginning about 1:30 CST today (NOW!)

CNN LINK Here

here is the live stream.

Short diary I know, but I thought some folks might be interested.

Enjoy.

•  Tip Jar

  for the Tip.

  The stream is up but Barack hasnt shown up yet...

  by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:40:48 AM PDT

  •  What's up with cnn?

    they don't have the stream up yet.  They have Hillary's up.

    by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:46:56 AM PDT

    •  You know what

      CNN stands for.

      by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:49:47 AM PDT

    •  It's up on cnn now

      by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:02:10 PM PDT

      •  thank you

        kitty...

        by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:05:02 PM PDT

      •  can you add the cnn link

        here?  I cant find it.

        by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:06:35 PM PDT

        •  Here

          http://www.cnn.com/...

          by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:08:04 PM PDT

  •  just fyi...

    the stream seems to automatically mute itself every few minutes.  an odd feature.

    by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:51:09 AM PDT

    •  Yeah, I noticed that too

      That's why I was hoping that CNN would stream it.  They didn't even stream his rally last night.

      by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:55:34 AM PDT

      •  whenever possible

        I prefer the local media coverage over cnn, etc.  gives a more localized perspective.

        by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:59:15 AM PDT

    •  I can't get the audio from there.

      by dotster on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:01:37 PM PDT

      •  verify you

        arent muted.

        by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:02:51 PM PDT

      •  its up on

        cnn now.  cnn link has been added.

        by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:12:45 PM PDT

•  Thanks for posting this

  Pedantic note though - it is at 1:30 pm CDT, not CST, since clocks moved ahead a few weeks ago.

  by seanflynn on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:47:23 AM PDT

  •  I always

    reverse those two.  I am old and have lost my bearings!

    by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:49:16 AM PDT

    •  BTW the link works fine

      but as usual things are running late

      by seanflynn on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:50:07 AM PDT

•  Video Stream Not Working

  OK - I have decided to take a closer look at Mr. Obama and every time I try to watch one of his townhall meetings the video stream never works. Not at the above link or on CNN. What gives. I have all the plug ins and a high speed connection and have tried Explorer and Firefox but no luck.

  Any ideas anyone?

  by fiscal conservative on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:55:10 AM PDT

  •  do you have a

    firewall?  I have gotten in and out of the KTVX link several times with no problem.. other than having to watch a commercial...

    by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:57:12 AM PDT

  •  Doesn't work for me either.

    by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:58:23 AM PDT

    •  I had to open it in IE

      by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:01:07 PM PDT

    •  I have it up and

      working.  first speaker is up now.  I am using IE6.  sorry, cant explain your problem.

      by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:02:12 PM PDT

      •  Working on IE...not on Firefox

        by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:03:46 PM PDT

    •  David, cnn is streaming it now

      http://www.cnn.com/...

      by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:04:42 PM PDT

      •  streaming it...but on TV it is Clinton...bullshit

        by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:06:29 PM PDT

  •  Try cnn

    http://www.cnn.com/...

    by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:12:19 PM PDT

•  thanks for this

  watching it this very moment in another window,

  by Lepanto on Sat May 10, 2008 at 11:57:49 AM PDT

•  I get the distinct impression

  their servers aren't quite ready for this. Perhaps they should take all the shit off the page that's trying to use resources. Oops. Sorry, that's advertising. We can't change that, now, can we?

  by bwintx on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:01:30 PM PDT

•  CNN is fucking playing CLINTON!!! LIVE WHY!

  by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:02:52 PM PDT

  •  it's on cnn now

    by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:05:04 PM PDT

    •  I have on Ballot Bowl, and Clinton is on...

      with a light blue jacket and some dried flowers around her neck.

      by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:05:46 PM PDT

      •  use this link

        http://www.cnn.com/...

        by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:06:25 PM PDT

        •  I got it up...thanks!

          by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:06:51 PM PDT

      •  Dried flowers around her neck?

        I'd like to put something around her neck all right

        by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:07:03 PM PDT

        •  Yeah, she's wearing a fucking necklace...

          of dried flowers.  

          by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:08:09 PM PDT

          •  You made me laugh

            by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:11:12 PM PDT

    •  I added the cnn link

      to the intro.  thank you kitty.

      by ratador on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:10:59 PM PDT

      •  Thank you for posting it n/t

        by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:13:27 PM PDT

•  Some of these introductions

  are painful...

  by Mbuto on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:09:25 PM PDT

•  Speaker

  nice speech  but it's gone on a bit too long.  Good here's Obama

  by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:09:39 PM PDT

  •  What a reception for Obama

    Can't wait to get Tuesday's WV primary over with

    by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:10:32 PM PDT

•  That is one fucked up web site.

  It actually crashed my other computer.

  by melvin on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:11:16 PM PDT

  •  Watch it on CNN melvin!

    http://www.cnn.com/...

    by bumblebums on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:13:31 PM PDT

•  Watch...we are seeing...

  another founding father of our country.

  by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:11:40 PM PDT

•  Acknowledgements...he is dressed casual.

  Sleeves rolled up...

  by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:13:26 PM PDT

  •  Love the casual look.

    Summer is going to be good for Obama.

    by Hope08 on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:15:26 PM PDT

•  I love his little voting protocol seminars

  Oh man... the walking talking babies.

  Oh well. Maybe he'll mix in some new stuff too.

  by bumblebums on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:16:34 PM PDT

•  CNN puts up points points on screen...

  sidebar...to show Obama is against guns!!! and partial-birth abortion!!

  by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:17:47 PM PDT

  •  Very annoying!! Let him talk!!!

    by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:18:11 PM PDT

    •  You could just stream it, DK

      No shouting sidebars.

      by bumblebums on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:19:32 PM PDT

      •  It's choppy...in and out.

        by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:20:05 PM PDT

  •  I'm watching it on the live stream

    not on the ballot bowl.  there's just Obama.

    by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:19:59 PM PDT

•  Look at all those white, working-class people...

  by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:21:19 PM PDT

  •  Who says that they have jobs? ( * _ * )

    by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:23:06 PM PDT

    •  They look well-fed to me.

      by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:23:39 PM PDT

•  OMG! thanks!!

  there's...there's...WHITE people there! and they're cheering! OMG!

  by jdw on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:22:00 PM PDT

•  Obama slams McCain on Energy

  Remarks of Senator Barack Obama, Press Avail at PV Powered Plant

  Bend, Oregon

  Saturday, May 10, 2008

  As Prepared for Delivery

  I just had the chance to walk through PV Powered and take a look at the solar technology they’re building here. This is truly a workshop of the future. Places like this are part of the reason Oregon is such a leader on clean energy. And this election is our chance to finally have a President who shows the same kind of leadership.

  For far too long, Washington has failed to confront our energy crisis. We’ve been talking about high prices at the pump and our dependence on foreign oil since the gas lines of the 1970s. We’ve been talking about our environmental problems for even longer. And yet here we are, all these decades later – and the only thing that’s changed is that we’re even more dependent on foreign oil. Our planet is in even greater peril. And the price of gas is shooting up and up and up.

  A big part of the problem has been that we’ve had corporate lobbyists writing our energy laws. When Dick Cheney was charged with coming up with our energy policy, he met with environmental groups once, he met with renewable energy folks once, and he met with the oil and gas companies forty times. This is just one example of how lobbyists have been skewing America’s agenda to serve the interests of Wall Street, no matter what the cost on Main Street. That’s why I’ve fought throughout my career to rein in the power of lobbyists and why I’m not taking a dime from Washington lobbyists on this campaign.

  But another part of the problem is that we’ve had a politics that’s too small to meet challenges as large as our energy crisis. Take the gas tax holiday that John McCain has proposed. This idea will save Americans a quarter and a nickel a day for three months – all in all, that’s less than 30 dollars. It’s not even enough for a full tank of gas. This is a classic Washington stunt that’s more about getting John McCain through an election than getting hardworking families through the summer. It will put billions of dollars into the pockets of the oil companies. It’s bad for our environment. And rather than bring down gas prices over the long term, most economists think it will actually drive those prices up.

  Now, I respect John McCain’s honorable service to this country, but what the American people need aren’t stunts; what they need are real solutions. And I hope that’s what John McCain offers when he comes to Oregon on Monday to talk about energy. But the fact is, when he had the chance to provide real relief for struggling families by taxing the windfall profits of oil companies, he opposed it. Just like he opposed making price gouging by oil companies a federal crime. Just like he’s opposed real solutions to reduce our dependence on oil time and time again. He’s voted repeatedly against mandates to ensure that we’re using more renewable energy, and measures to spark investment in clean energy. And he’s voted against raising fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks.

  That’s why the American people will have a clear choice in November when I’m the nominee. Because I believe that we need to make the real investments in clean energy that will help solve this crisis once and for all. That’s why I reached across the aisle to come up with a plan to double our fuel efficiency standards that won support of lawmakers who had never supported raising those standards before. And that’s why unlike John McCain, I fought to pass bipartisan energy reform a few years ago. Now, the bill was far from perfect, and it included tax giveaways to oil companies that I fought to eliminate. But I supported it because it was the largest investment in renewable energy in history.

  If we’re serious about solving this crisis, we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We’ll have to forge long-term, bipartisan solutions, and that’s what I intend to do as President. I’ll invest $150 billion over ten years in establishing a green energy sector that will create up to 5 million new green jobs – and those are jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced. We’ll invest in clean energies like solar – and help ensure that companies like PV Powered have the support they need. And we’ll set a national standard to make sure that the fuels we’re using are more efficient. Because that’s how we’ll reduce our dependence on foreign oil, that’s how we’ll save this planet, and that’s how we’ll get gas prices under control.

  It’s time we had an energy policy that wasn’t written by and for the big oil companies, but by and for the American people. It’s time to stop seeing our energy crisis as a problem we have to endure, and start seeing it as a challenge we can meet. And that’s the kind of leadership I intend to offer as President of the United States.

  by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:22:01 PM PDT

•  A fascinating area.

  If you look around as you drive through Bend, you will notice that you leave one biome on the north end of town and are in a different one when you exit the south end. Completely different soil and vegetation. Also Bend has some of the coolest freeway landscaping in the northwest.

  by melvin on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:22:55 PM PDT

  •  You must be an ecologist...most people...

    don't know what  a "biome" is... :(

    by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:25:20 PM PDT

    •  A bit micro

      Not so significant on a large-scale view even of Oregon, but it is quite striking.

      by melvin on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:37:00 PM PDT

•  He's talking to the voters

  as if they are adults.  Hillary talks to them as if they are children. She is the mother who has all the programs to take care of them.  Obama says that we will look out for one another.

  by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:29:00 PM PDT

  •  Not too much new here...a bit boring...

    for me anyway, but I've listened to about all of his town halls.

    by David Kroning on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:30:52 PM PDT

    •  yeah but at least he's

      not stuttering through it as he did last night.  He's much sharper.  I watch these for the questions after.  I love to watch him interact with the voters.

      by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:32:32 PM PDT

•  More good news

  California Switches

  The big state gave Clinton a ten-point victory in its primary. A new SUSA poll gives Obama a 6 point edge. When you look at the demographic date, you find that the black vote hasn't changed much, unlike in other states. And Latino support for Clinton has dropped, but Obama hasn't managed to gain. White males have moved decisively to Obama but the biggest swing appears among Asian-Americans. The Asian vote has gone from 71 - 25 for Clinton to 54 - 37 for Obama.

  by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:30:57 PM PDT

  •  Damn, if the CA primary were in June

    the way it used to be in the good ol' days, he'd wax her ass so badly it would be embarrassing. We wouldn't have to worry daily about SuperDees and the rest.

    by bwintx on Sat May 10, 2008 at 01:18:30 PM PDT

•  he's spot on

  Casual approach. A bare non-polemical mention of Clinton (hinting that by now she's no longer an issue). Hammering McCain as a continuation of Bush. Positive on what can be done. Against the war as a mistake and an enormous waste of resources that could be put to much better use...

  by Lepanto on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:39:36 PM PDT

•  Me too..these town halls are all about answering

  the questions of voters and less about him as conpared to rallies.

  by erick770 on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:40:17 PM PDT

•  Bad news Bill is at it again

  Per ABC News' Sarah Amos, this is what the 42nd president of the United States said Friday in Ripley, W.Va.:

  "Hillary is in this race because of people like you and places like this and no matter what they say," Clinton said. "And no matter how much fun they make of your support of her and the fact that working people all over America have stuck with her, she thinks you're as smart as they are. She thinks you've got as much right to have your say as anybody else. And, you know, they make a lot of fun of me because I like to campaign in places like this, they say I have been exiled to rural America, as if that was a problem. I don't know about you, but I'd rather be here than listening to that stuff I have to hear on television, I'd rather be with you. There is a simple reason: You need a president a lot more than those people telling you not to vote for her."

  "It is very interesting, from the very beginning of this race there has been a sharp divide in the vote -- the people who need a president, who need to turn the economy around, who need to restore the middle class, who need to give poor people a chance to work their way into the middle class, who need to give our children a better future, who need to restore our standing in the world and the war in Iraq, but do it in a way that rebuilds our military and stands up for America's security and standing around the world -- they have been for her from the get-go."

  Trapper's take

  And on and on... Ginning up the resentments and the class divide (and maybe other divisions). ... His message to these voters: Obama and the media are laughing at you and think you're stupid!!!

  Political Punch

  by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:44:13 PM PDT

•  Would you consider giving her Florida

  A questioner asking about Hillary's math

  by Kitty on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:50:06 PM PDT

•  Okay...

  Watched it with comments from local reporters before and after. If they would watch tape of themselves, they would see that their speaking needs work. If I had heard "kind of" being used one more time I would have lept through the computer screen and throttled them.

  I liked the townhall itself. He needs to work on delivery to small crowds a bit. He is very much the professor in this venue. Don't get me wrong I always liked listening to my professors, and listgening to a hot profeesor doesn't hurt the experience at all, but maybe he wants to be a little more succinct. I know why he does it, but it doesn't play well all the time.

  by COwoman on Sat May 10, 2008 at 01:29:07 PM PDT

  •  He is who he is and he talks as he talks.

    I'm so tired of people saying he should do this or he should do that.  What he's done up to this point seems to be working for him just fine.

    by vernonbc on Sun May 11, 2008 at 01:28:02 AM PDT