Cenk Uygur, co-host of The Young Turks on Air America Radio, caught up with former Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tennessee) at an ABC News party last night and spoke to him about his time in the Senate, and a potential 2008 bid.
In the end, I have to admit that I was impressed by Thompson. Sometimes when you meet someone you get a sense of whether they are real or fake. And sometimes you are taken in by an amiable, charming person you might not otherwise agree with.
It’s hard for me to tell which category I fall into in this instance, but I came away with the impression that Senator Thompson was not your average politician. He really was frustrated with the way the system is set against change. He was very open about his thoughts, his weaknesses and his ideas on real issues.
I am sure that if he ran I would find many areas of significant disagreement with him, but as a person in a room talking with someone he had never met before, he was friendly, honest and very likeable. Even more important than all of that, he was – at least for this conversation – eminently reasonable.
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