Very well said, kay! Your really nailed it....I had mentioned to him before that I was "very right wing". I think it played on him and it resulted in him throwing that one down the middle of the strike zone.
I had told him how I heard all ~15 F16's take off in the wee hours for Iraq a few weeks ago (from the air base he is stationed at near my house....it was all in the local news the next day...there was even a picture of a pilot that got his goodbye kiss from his girlfriend WHILE HE SAT IN HIS COCKPIT AND SHE WAS ON A LADDER!!!). Of course I was saluting those planes out on my doorstep at 1:30 am that morning. He knew about those planes and he was interested that I was out there watching them at that hour.
And now, if he ever hears of FR through the media and they try to lead the viewers into believing that we're a bunch of kooks, he'll know better. He will have already met a FReeper ... one who is intelligent, informed, articulate, patriotic ... and who loves the sound of FREEDOM at 1:30 in the morning ... :-)