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Several protest ABC Obama broadcast

GRAND JUNCTION (KJCT) -- With signs reading "ABC has sold out. Watch FOX" and "Care not crisis", approximately 50 to 60 people demonstrated along 25 Road and in front of KJCT studios to protest tonight's prime-time town hall meeting to be broadcast on ABC.

Protesters told KJCT they believe the broadcast is nothing more than an infomercial for Obama's policies.

"Frankly we are a little irritated with the fact that ABC isn't going to give a balanced approach to this subject," protester Dennis White said.

White expressed concerns that the President's efforts to overhaul the nations health care system amounts to social medicine and will eventually backfire.

"This really is a message for Salazar, Bennett, Udall and Ritter. Remember 1994? Remember what happened when Hillary tried to shove health care down our throats then?"

In an interview with ABC News that aired Wednesday morning, Obama indicated there was a breaking point in the balance sheets where he would say that the cost of reforming the system is too great for the federal government to handle.

"I think that if any reform that we get is not driving down costs in a serious way," he said on ABC's Good Morning America. "If people say, 'We're just going to add more people onto a hugely inefficient system,' then I will say no. Because ... we can't afford it."

ABC news has said in response to an RNC letter that they will be looking for the most thoughtful and diverse voices on this issue.