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- PongGod, on 10/12/2007, -8/+185You just can't explain it any more clearly than that. But, the important question is... Is anybody in the White House listening?
- ericjohnson0, on 10/12/2007, -9/+96I hope the people in the country are listening... Smart guy, that Paul...
- rstevens, on 10/12/2007, -6/+83Ron Paul's weekly column should be front page news on every newspaper in the United States. He's one of the best political thinkers in the nation.
- JDParshall, on 10/12/2007, -5/+73No, as Bush's "it'll work because I told them it had to" remark shows, he's living in his own cosy little bubble.
- toonworld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+522 quotes come to mind, both from the same person:
"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?"
and
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
~Blaise Pascal - jkenneth, on 10/12/2007, -7/+54This is a painful state of affairs for the US, and a rude awakening for many americans. But honestly, I think we needed Bush and his administration. We needed this, we NEEDED to see what could happen when we are apathetic and this is a lesson we need to learn upon our bones.
- patch6, on 10/12/2007, -6/+49I'm in awe at how Ron Paul's voting history is a solid adherence to libertarian ideology. He's heavily anti-establishment, which is just the reason that you won't hear a word about his presidential bid in the mainstream.
Voting him in would go a long way towards restoring the US to its former glory.
Even as a Canadian, I'm rooting for him. - markyannone, on 10/12/2007, -9/+50And the best part is, Ron Paul is running for President. As a Republican. That's worth changing your voter registration for, isn't it?
- playball7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43Speaking of the weekly column, Dr. Paul records it each Monday morning so we can listen to it, toll-free, at 1-888-322-1414 for the next seven days.
- Leomarth, on 10/12/2007, -8/+45@ericjohnson
He's running for President in '08 you know. - btattersall, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40Their track record would say otherwise
- Smuikas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35@poovey:
You can't stick your head in the sand and claim safe, but much of our recent 'insecurities' with terrorism, etc, have arisen from certain foreign policies we've held for MANY decades.
Our middle east policy isn't about supporting Israel, and it's not about stopping Terrorism. It's about keeping the region destabilized to keep OPEC from gaining any more control over oil pricing. It's the same technique that prison guards use (covertly encourage gang behavior to steer violence away from guards and towards other inmates), deBeers uses in Africa (keep the factions fighting each other by buying diamonds from them so they can fund their feuds, so they don't start selling the diamonds themselves on the world market).
To some extent the same policy can be seen in our government towards our own people, sad as it is. Mainly artificial and arbitrary lines are drawn in the sand, with two groups of people on either side. They squabble about minor things, but mostly they are the same. The minor things are so overblown that they begin to despise the other, and begin to believe they're completely different sides of the coin - when in fact, they're just different parts of the same face. This keeps a very large majority thinking the same way, and enables those in power to utilize demagogic strategies as power strangleholds.
There are a few other groups of people (libertarians, green party, anarchists, communists) that don't really fall on either side of the line, but stand off to the side and are often ignored. The biggest problem is that people, as a whole, don't want to think. They don't want to decide what's right for themselves. They want someone to give them detailed steps on how to live their lives, birth to retirement to death. So many people - and not just Americans - are not individualists by any means. They take the wide, narrow and safe route, because they're deathly afraid of the unknown. It reaches to peoples' most basic instincts. This is why the electoral college was formed - because our founding fathers -knew- that most people are (while not necessarily dumb) group thinkers. The electoral college was supposed to listen to the people who voted, take their opinions into account, and then make their own decision. Unfortunately, the electoral college is little more than a joke - just like congress and the presidency. Democrats can fight Republicans all they want, but they're one in the same: statist, groupthink fascist-style decision-making. They only differ on minor ideals.
That's where this guy seems to stand apart from the pack. - niczar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+41There is only one nation that has used "nucular" weapons, there is only one nation that has threatened to use it again: the United States of America.
Sure those muslim fundamentalists are baaaad. They just don't look THAT bad from my European point of view, compared to your bible-thumping, gun-toting evil bastards you have in D.C.
Al-Qaeda 9/11: 3000 innocent victims.
USA in Iraq: 650000 innocent victims and counting.
20x times worse. It's just maths. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Ron Paul is the only true conservative I see left.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+38The only reason I'm still a registered Republican is so I can vote for Ron Paul in the primaries. If he doesn't make it, I'll make the jump to the Libertarian Party, where I should have been all along.
- ericjohnson0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31How I do love that guy!
- dogfurnace, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26saturn5: "Hitler didn't look THAT bad from the European point of view. Then we had to come over and save your sorry asses."
Man that is so lame. Stop saying "we" like your fat ass had anything to do with the bravery of your grandfathers. America has done nothing but ***** the world up since 9/11 so please get off your high horse.
p.s.- The US should stay the ***** out of Iran because unlike every other war your mighty military has engaged in over the last 20 years, they would actually fight back. - DavidDigg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26I just learned that Ron Paul understands the motivations for the war in Iraq. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War
Texas Republican congressman Ron Paul alleged that part of the reason for the war was to maintain "Dollar hegemony." Before the war, Hussein had planned to require Euros for all petroleum sales. That was bad for the dollar, since it lacks the backing by gold or silver which it had historically, and demand for dollars to purchase oil helped to support its market value. After the war began, the Americans quickly returned Iraq petroleum sales from Euros to "Petrodollars."
Meanwhile, post-war opinion polls [12] in Muslim countries show that a clear majority believe that the Iraq War was a war for natural resources, intended to bring Iraq's oil reserves under American control. On this view, the other issues (WMD, Saddam, terror links, etc) are seen as mere smokescreens. - saigumi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Obama vs Paul 2008 - An election that you actually have a choice
- green1152, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26I'm diggin' this guy, republican or not. The good things I've just read about him makes me want to vote for him. I wouldn't be surprised if Digg could play a big role in his future success.
- LordLucless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21"Seriously, Ron Paul is an anti-Iraq-war crank that has been against the whole affair from the very beginning. He's had nothing positive to say about it from day 1"
Good, neither have I. - chingy1788, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21people kill people more than animals kill people yet people fear animals more than people
- WhitfieldGeorge, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25I have sent the Ron Paul Presidential Exploratory Committee several contributions. He is our best choice for peace, liberty, and prosperity. See: http://www.ronpaulexplore.com and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul and http://www.house.gov/paul
- cbell1956, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22I'll 'DIGG' every Ron Paul article I come across. I've followed his career in Congress for about 4-5 years.
The reason his views and Libertarian views in general sound so off the wall is because our country has left our founding principles behind. For example, if you review Congressman Paul's voting record in the House you will see he never votes for unconstitutional legislation. If Americans read, knew, and understood the Constitution better they would know that just about every piece of passed legislation in our generation is Unconstitutional. Another example, who has authority to declare war? only congress has that authority. I believe if you polled most Americans today they would say the President. Our congress has not declared war legally since WWII. We Americans need to wake up, reeducate ourselves and participate or we will continue to lose our country. Mr. Paul is the most viable candidate named so far. I'll support him as long as he stays in. From my viewpoint there is no other choice. - iTorrey, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24I bet people told Dr. Martin Luther King the same thing, "What can we do about it? There are more of them than there are of us!". It only takes a few willing and noble people to stand up for what is right and start lighting brush fires in the minds of the people. We must first wake up, see the situation and then tell everyone around us what is happening. Shout it from the mountain tops to the deepest valleys in the country. Tell your friends, your family, your neighbords, your co-workers. Don't be afraid to engage them in these topics. Don't worry that they will think you are crazy or too intense. Don't be afraid to disagree with them. You must present the facts as they stand which will ignite these brush fires in their minds so that when they see the deception laid out by the government and their media the brush fires will rage until they can no longer stay asleep as the alarm bells will be sounding so loudly that they too will wake up and start shouting.
We don't have to win in '08, we just have to start waking people up to the ideas and showing them that there is a phony left vs. right paradigm that has been enslaving us for far far too long. - theOster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul
Paul's economic views oppose nearly all government intervention in the market. He supports the abolition of the income tax, most Cabinet departments and the Federal Reserve. His opposition to the Federal Reserve is based on his belief that instead of containing inflation, the Federal Reserve, in theory and in practice, is responsible for causing inflation. Paul believes that in addition to eroding the value of individual savings, this creation of inflation leads to booms and busts in the economy. This economic theory is known as Austrian Business Cycle Theory. Thus Paul would say that government, via a central bank (the Federal Reserve), is the primary cause of economic recessions and depressions. He has stated in numerous speeches that most of his colleagues in Congress are unwilling to abolish the central bank because it funds many government activities. He says that to compensate for eliminating the "hidden tax" [8] of inflation, Congress and the president would instead have to raise taxes or cut government services, either of which could be politically damaging to their reputations. He also endorses defederalization of the healthcare system. Paul's campaign slogan for 2004 was "The Taxpayers' Best Friend!".
well, he's got my vote. - tobias1482, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Ron Paul has always spoken his mind. Unfortunately, he just gets ignored to often since he tends to call a duck a duck. Patch6 (below) pretty much sums it up on why that happens.
He's the _only_ politician that I've ever voted for who I trusted to cast his votes in way that felt honest to their campaign platform. - LordLucless, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19You ever think that the best way to stop foreigners hating your guts is to pull your bloody noses (and guns) out of their country and their business?
It's the US' arrogant foreign policy that's turned the Middle East against them. "We have a bigger army, so we can carve up your territory and tell you what to do." Well, the Middle East has discovered that while the US might have the bigger army, they have terror tactics. - 3n7r0py, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17The Federal Reserve is a PRIVATE bank that controls our monetary system as well as our government! Shutdown the Federal Reserve! www.wethepeoplefoundation.org - www.freedomtofascism.com - watch, "America: Freedom to Fascism" - "Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve" - "The Money Masters Part 3" and "The Capitalist Conspiracy"...
- carlhungis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18It is sad when all it takes is someone to speak COMMON SENSE and it makes him one of the best political speakers in the country.
- patch6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16He's vehemently against corporate welfare and other means with which a government gives certain business an unfair advantage in the free market, as demonstrated by his voting record (voting "NO" against more than 300 billion dollars of subsidy requests total).
- shaidar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@saturn5
change the record. Read a real history book about WW2 - Corrosionx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Strawman argument: Enron was not a market failure, it was a government failure.
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_275_Enron.mp3 - uttles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Jeff, you're contradicting yourself. Libertarian ideals are realistic. They just aren't popular. The reason they aren't popular is not because they're unrealistic, it's because they're not easy. They don't promise anyone a free lunch. They're not entitlements. The Democrats and even the Republicans have successfully turned this country into an apathetic entitlement society. Their legislation is "unrealistic" because it will only end in failure.
- inurb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I hope Paul makes it into the Primary. He will get my vote for sure!
It's a shame the main stream media will ignore him. - cadavreexquis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"Don't do it"? "DON'T DO IT"?? How about "We won't let you do it"??
- rocket777, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Yesterday, I received a letter from Ron Paul. He is asking for support for a run for the presidency. I would hope everyone who dugg this would send in letter of support backed by some cash. Anything, even $25 would do.
The country needs him.
The world will blow up without him.
The government is a bunch of crooks without him.
We can't win without him.
He can't win without us.
Support him.
http://www.ronpaulexplore.com - Kythas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Apparently, nobody here understands sarcasm. Almost the entirety of the post are arguments the Democrats have been using against making a military strike against Iran.
However, the meat of the post is the last sentence, which people here either did not read or did not understand the meaning of:
"The moral of the story, Mr. Speaker, is this: if you don't have a nuke, we'll threaten to attack you. If you do have a nuke, we'll leave you alone. In fact, we'll probably subsidize you. What makes us think Iran does not understand this?"
What he's trying to say is this: If you're an adversary nation but have nuclear weapons, we'll leave you alone, bow to your demands, and even subsidize your economy as we are doing in North Korea. This is why Iran is making a balls to the wall attempt to acquire nuclear weapons - they believe they'll be immune from future US attacks at that point. And, I fear, they'll be right based on our previous kowtowing to North Korea. - SoloMalee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@Saturn5
So what are you saying exactly...Hitler was European and was bad, so the US had to help us out...(Yeah thanks by the way it was 60 years ago already!)
So to use the same argument...Bush is American and is bad, so us Europeans had better hop on over on the next Virgin Atlantic flight to return the favour and help you get rid of your self elected corrupt government ;-) - eurofooty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Besides, the russians turned the tide in Stalingrad that won WWII. The Americans turned up just in time to mop things up on the Western front.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14We need a podcast of that recording...for viral, grassroots campaigning if anything.
I emailed his exploratory committee and volunteered my web design and development services. I'm still waiting to hear back. *crosses fingers* - uttles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Agree, you would have a Democrat that actually represents Democrat ideals and a Republican that actually represents Republican ideals. My vote would be for the minimalist Paul because I believe in his philosophy of free market economics. Either way, we'd be better off than we are now.
- poxonyou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"So to use the same argument...Bush is American and is bad, so us Europeans had better hop on over on the next Virgin Atlantic flight to return the favour and help you get rid of your self elected corrupt government ;-)"
Actually, please do. While you're at it, abolish our electoral college and Republican party. EIther replace them with the Libertarian Party, or make the Republican-lite/DLC/Clinton wing of the Democratic Party the new Republicans, since they reflect the right-leaning party of other countries more than our war loving, fiscally irresponsible, religious extremist right party. - Run4ny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Ron Paul is ***** awesome. He's got my support and vote all the way.
- mrhaines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If Bush tries to attack Iran I hope you guys impeach his ass.
- uttles, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Ron Paul '08
- foreignape, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Will we see the bush administration again funding Al-Qaida to try and counter Iran, as they did in Afghanistan to try and counter the Soviets?
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Please stop using the term "common sense." It's been so distorted, twisted, and applied to such bass-ackwards thinking that it's become synonymous with windbag politicians who claim up is down and black is white because it's "common sense."
- PongGod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@*****,
Obama and Paul are not the least bit compatible. One is just another statist with a nice smile and the other actually believes in the radical idea that we should rein in government and let citizens once again take responsibility for their own lives. - robelanator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"You could just register as independant and then...you can vote for whoever the hell you want."
Depends... If Paul is running as a Republican then that means he'll have to win the Republican primary election and many states require you to actually be a member of the political party whose primary you'd like to vote in. -
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