Olo Baggins of Bywater says:

#38 Warden…if you want see a liberal/progressive blog, this isn’t it. Go to crooksandliars.com and check their links. Those are liberal blogs, mostly.

Awake says:

As I mentioned in a reply yesterday (where I originally posted a link to the video), I would not wish Parkinsons to my worst enemy. I watched my uncle die of it, it took him 15 years, ten more than he actually wanted to live with the damn disease. It was really heartbreaking.

The point is not if the person in the video has Parkinson’s or not. The point is that he claims to have Parkinsons, and he is being treated like shit by these so-called humans. If he does have Parkinsons, then he really truly needs our compassion and help (which those horrible socialist programs called Social Security and Medicare are providing). If they suspect he does not have Parkinsons he should be ignored… But they do not know the truth and under no conditions should he be treated the way that he is being treated.

I’m glad that the guy had the courage to confront the TeaBaggers by sitting in front of the demostrators… as long as there is no violence the intermingling of ideas is very important. It is the response of the TeaBaggers that is really disgusting considering what the man is claiming.

A person can very well be judged by the company he keeps… the core of the “TeaBag” party is composed of a bunch of people that on the whole are best avoided (this is the same type of people that Germany’s Nationalist party ended up composed up back in the 30′s), surrounded by few followers with good intentions that are really too dumb or closed minded to look at the reality of their TeaParty.

A very interesting commentary about the TeaParty cab be found here:
http://nybooks.com/articles/23723

Killer Duck says:

If NO one had medical insurance the problem would be solved. Market forces would dictate real prices, people would not go to the doctor unnecessarily and the weak would die. Darwinism. Sad, but its how 99.999% of all living things on the planet have it.
You can’t possibly save everyone; nationalized healthcare will do nothing but drop the average health of an American. Paying for all those who can’t afford it now, will do nothing but take services and funding from those who can. Then everyone will be on an equal playing field. They made a movie about this, its called Idiocracy.

the mirror says:

I have seen in person these very same types of people, parents of my daughter friend and her husband a scout assistant. The mother was just like to people in that video, scared the shite out of me with her hate. Known her for years but had never seen this side of her, totally freaked me out! Asked her if she had seen the excellent PBS series with TR Reid on healthcare in other developed countries, she said stuff it! And, she is not the only one I know with this kind of hate, sad and scary…

EvilPoliticians says:

Just because nutcases oppose your efforts does not equate to your efforts is right.

Correlation Causality …or relevance.

Someone should check into the Parkinson’s demonstrator as with Joe the Plumber. Does he really have Parkinson’s. Can he access health care under current state and federal programs. My guess is this is staged by the Ohio DNC. And well played at that.

Doesn’t excuse the fools though.

Greg Allen says:

These anti-government, anti-tax teabaggers need to go live in a place with no government and no taxes.

The place I visited like that was was extremely rural Pakistan (in the general vicinity of where bin Laden is reported to be hiding) and it occured to me that this is what conservatives are demanding.

No taxes! No regulations! No liberal judges! No gun gun control!

There are also no police, no traffic signs, no courts, no health regulations, no zoning laws, no water, no firemen. No one to stop anyone from shooting you in the head!

After a year of in conservative utopia, those teabaggers will be begging to be sent to Sweden.

MaKo says:

The thing is, the dollar-chuckers could not have known whether the person was an “actor”. So we can only infer that to this group of people, a person suffering from a debilitating disease and holding a sign is fair game. I don’t even think he said anything to him. And I hate to spoil your tea partay, because this man is not an actor.

. So what it means is that some members of the tea party are mean-spirited enough to ridicule a person suffering from an extremely debilitating disease.

Healthcare is a human right. Let’s get it to everyone.

dgbx says:

“A demonstrator at a Columbus health-care rally who was chided for looking for a handout “on the wrong end of town” actually is a former nuclear engineer with a doctorate from Cornell University.
Robert A. Letcher, 60, had no way of knowing that attending the rally would make him a flashpoint in the raging national health-care debate.”
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He’s a real person with a real case of Parkinson’s. He probably has and IQ twice that of any protester in that group (though that wouldn’t be hard to achieve). Who was the guy that threw the dollar bill? What a dickhead!