U.S. Army Veteran: Tea Party Doesn't Represent Me

[LuckyTheDog]

Run time: 07:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi2h9IQdwDE   Posted on YouTube: February 18, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 28, 2010 By DU Member: LuckyTheDog Views on DU: 483

 
This guy starts out talking like a righty. But the more he talks, the more he sounds like one of us.

[ribrepin]

1. K&R

Excellent...he breaks it down.

[The Wielding Truth]

2. Hmmm.... I like coffee. I like the moderate tone of this independent.

:toast:

[hootinholler]

3. I notice he thinks the public option is one end of the health care spectrum

Single payer isn't even on his radar.

-Hoot

[LuckyTheDog]

4. He has to learn to walk...

... before he can run. He calls himself a "reformed libertarian."

[hootinholler]

5. Understood, but I wasn't clear...

I mean that for many who think they are in the center, the public option is the left extreme when we both know it is not. This is simply another example of that and how effective the right is at introducing a rightward bias in the discourse that it seems intuitive.

-Hoot

[supernova]

6. What was the context for this interview?

It sounds like he was interviewed by the TP for some propaganda piece, as a reliable rightie soldier guy, but he went off their rails quickly. :D

Seems like a decent guy. At least he's thinking.