NASHUA, N.H.--Americans for Prosperity and Cornerstone Policy Research co-hosted a Town Hall event in Nashua on Tuesday featuring the Wall Street Journal's Steven Moore, a senior economics writer who sits on the paper's editorial board, just hours after President Obama tried to sell his incompetent, failed agenda for a second time to New Hampshire residents.

Protesters gathered outside the president's Town Hall meeting, then gathered a few miles away for a libertarian-conservative Town Hall response that challenged the president on his budget proposals, his spending problem, his health care obsession, his lies about the discredited man-made global warming theory, and his general misguided, flawed philosophy. Speakers offered a common sense, individual-liberty, free-market approach as a proven alternative to the president's agenda. Former Gov. Mel Thompson's son Tom Thompson, a speaker at the rebuttal Town Hall, said the president was trying to sell "snake oil."

Obama was in Portsmouth, N.H., last August, when he held a contrived Town Hall meeting repeating the same lies about health care that he has told since the first Obamacare bill was introduced. Hundreds of protesters told the real story outside that meeting at the time.

There is little doubt that the president repeated some of the same lies in Nashua on Tuesday, but local media reports (PDF) indicate that the attendants were more confrontational this time. Protests outside weren't as large as expected, but parking constraints, colder weather and the fact that the meeting was scheduled during the workday could have been factors. Protesters outnumbered Obama supporters, nonetheless, and kept touting the cause of liberty. 

At the Town Hall response, Steven Moore's commentary included harsh criticism of the president, Congress and the media. He called global warming a "hoax" and legislation aimed to fix it as useless for affecting the climate but devastating for the U.S. economy and jobs. He warned about record debt and deficits and noted that the president's agenda would hit small business owners the hardest.

The columnist also said he was fearful that the country was at risk of failing and the nation's children were at risk of inheriting a failed United States if TEA Party protesters and other pro-liberty advocates don't continue to fight for the constitution and common sense as we have since April 15, but particularly as we did on Sept. 12. He praised the movement, calling it the "second American Revolution." He said he has never experienced a time like this in his life.

Later, he took questions from the audience. During one answer, he promoted the 10th Amendment, saying that the 50 United States are each experiments in democracy, and the federal government should interfere only as the constitution permits. The People are the root of all power, he said, and our energy will be needed to restore the nation after the damage caused by the current administration and others, as well as Congress.

Kevin Smith with Cornerstone Policy Research; Corey Lewandowski, with the New Hampshire branch of Americans for Prosperity; Tom Thompson, son of former N.H. Gov. Mel Thompson, who is famous for saying "Low taxes are the result of low spending," John Stephen, former commissioner of the N.H. Department of Health and Human Services; and Jennifer Horn, a congressional candidate in NH-D2 from Nashua, spoke out against federal government spending and Obamacare.

Each told a story of a nation and a state caught in the trappings of out-of-control government spending and excessive taxation, as well as abuse of power. Each also encouraged the room of about 300 people to go out and spread the word for freedom, so come election time, momentum will have reached its climax and pro-liberty candidates can take over the state and federal governments and start the process of restoration.

(Read the Nashua Telegraph's coverage of this event (PDF).