The Sickmiller Express

Friday, Senator Salazar made a stop in Silverton to talk about healthcare. Adam and I attended along with around 20 other citizens. As is to be expected he is great in front of a crowd, very personable. He wanted to have a conversation and not lecture, what is with that? I don't understand why the lecture is so feared. If I wanted to have a conversation I'd head to the pub. I always hated those kinds of classes at university, where participation was a large percentage of the grade. It always led to people making unnecessary comments and asking questions they already knew the answer to. They didn't seem to help me out because I'm still pretty standoffish and don't have much to say (specifically around people that I'm not good good friends with). It makes more sense in this case because he wants to hear what 'the people' have to say and he DID give a mini presentation. Ok, back to the topic. Ironically I started this post wanting to comment on how people rant on other topics when asking a 'question'. Not only did the questions seem to be hidden behind a lot of opinion but they were off topic. Let's just talk about the issue at hand, don't come and waste all of our time. The senator is only going to divert or shallowly answer your 'question'. Write him a letter or something. Aside from all of that it was interesting and I really enjoyed meeting him. Also someone sang him a song while strongly hinting that he was a 'Caveman Democrat'. Fun times.