[UCANSEE2]

In the incident where, after a speech, Herman goes to dinner and invites a female from the audience who proposed an excellent question for discussion, I question why this was even considered to be 'devious'?

Is this not the norm, anyway? That the guest speaker may invite audience members to dinner, or someone from the press?

Don't expect me to also believe that a GUEST SPEAKER of the NRA goes to dinner, and will have any kind of privacy at the table, such as one might if you were an unknown visiting businessman.

[tjd1454]

I don't know if there is any truth to the alleged incident, but I would find it inappropriate for a speaker to single out a woman in the audience and tried to get someone to set up a dinner together. This was not a "Hey let's all go out to dinner - and maybe that young lady in the audience would like to join us...

Frankly IMHO even that would be a stretch.

There often is time after a meeting concludes for interested persons to come up and talk further with the speaker. I frankly find it incredible that a speaker would be so impressed with the brilliance of a question that they made it a point to try to have someone seek out that person (who happens to be of the opposite sex) to invite them to dinner.

We must not allow our support for any candidate cause us to deny what we know to be right and wrong.