Bob McCarty Writes

Sometimes experience speaks volumes.  Such is the case when it comes to Tim Carpenter.

The fifth of six speakers who addressed the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, Carpenter’s resume includes having served on the team that managed the unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio).  Today, he’s known as the executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, an ultra-liberal group pushing for the single-payer health care option.

Carpenter spent most of his seven minutes addressing matters of collaboration and strategy with approximately 100 like-minded individuals in the room.

“Not everybody can get arrested, but some of us can get arrested,” he said.  “Not all of us can run for Congress, but all of us can challenge members of Congress.”

He went on to explain that it’s “our responsibility as part of a larger social movement” to stand and challenge the electoral process inside and outside the party.

Concluding his speech, he said, “Health care, not warfare” is the mantra with which his liberal friends should challenge members of Congress.  Sounds to me like Cindy Sheehan might have had both a sex change and a name change.

To see the rest of what Carpenter had to share with his liberal friends, watch the video below which I shot as the only journalist at the conference.

To see and hear what other conference speakers had to say, click here.

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