My Take on Tancredo

I saw Tancredo for the first time in person at a town hall meeting on veterans issues down in the Highlands Ranch area a few months back. He opened the meeting with a prayer and mentioned in that prayer, the war, asked God for victory, mentioned the terrorists several times and asked God for blessings.

A town hall meeting as I am familiar with them, usually has the speaker talk about the topic specified, then opens it up for questions and answers. Tancredo didn't do that, he kept on talking about war, terrorists and the heat he was getting regarding his "nuke Mecca" statement. This town hall was different for Tancredo as well, about 20 Vietnam veterans showed up wearing black hats as well as many Democratic constituents. When the neocons in the crowd cheered regarding his stance on nuking Mecca, they were almost matched by boos and hisses. Needless to say Tancredo is not used to speaking or preaching to anything other than the choir. He proceeded to tell a lie about how bad the Veterans Administration was and how that agency had more lawyers than ANY federal agency. He even quoted a number, later the expert from the VA legal department he brought along from Washington, got up and gave a totally different number. He also said he was a veteran and that the VA was the best health care system in the world. Tancredo did not bother to field questions, but turned the floor over to said VA lawyer. He gave a long winded speech, contradicted several "facts" Tancredo's and well known facts and then took questions. My question was the first, "You say the VA health care is the best in the world, you are a veteran, do you use the system?" He said no, he used Bethesda Naval, my follow up was to be, 'if the VA is the best in the world, why would you and the president not use the VA?' Needless to say, my question not being a softball, was not conducive to a follow up question.