This was right up the road from where I live. I wanted to go so badly, but I was sick and in bed.

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Awesome speech. He's right on 100% of what he's saying. 100%.

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I also think he speak 100% the truth and how it really is. That he doesnt read his speech from papers indicates also that he means it.

So, Americans, why doesnt he get voted for?

Ron Paul says what he believes, I'll give him great props for that. Some of the time he gets it right and he's the lone voice of sanity in the wilderness. But a LOT of the things he says are just kooky, that's why he doesn't get elected. He believes that things like the BP oil spill would be LESS likely to happen with LESS regulation. He thinks that the free market will do a better job of regulating than the government can do. He's a loveable nut, fun to watch and like I said, sometimes, like now he gets it right.

But for President? Are you crazy?

>> ^coolhund:

I also think he speak 100% the truth and how it really is. That he doesnt read his speech from papers indicates also that he means it.
So, Americans, why doesnt he get voted for?

I disagree with him 100% on China. I don't see how anyone with his views of capitalism can respect their monetary policy. In response to the question of why Americans don't vote for him: it's largely because once you get through the populist rhetoric, the logic of the majority of his views fall apart under careful scrutiny.

I agree with most of what he says (no immunity for government officials, stop bombing people).

On the whistle-blower immunity thing, I agree provided that the person is exposing something illegal. However, I don't support immunity for someone releasing internal government communications (ie- wiki-leaks) if the communications do not indicate any illegal activity.

As far as China, I don't know enough about Paul's views to agree or disagree, but what I've seen from him on the subject seems overly simplistic.

I was there!!! He has been the speaker for the Campaign for Liberty's annual conference for at least the last two years. I got a signed copy of End the Fed, a signed pocket Constitution that he wrote the forward for, and a photo with him.

Here's the thing...most people don't agree with "all of his views" but he is one of the few politicians that speaks his mind and shares "all of his views". The person you chose to vote for instead of him most likely has a lot of views you don't agree with also except they are either self censoring those views or they are being told by handlers and consultants not to share those views. On top of that the views they share with you might not even really be their views either...just what they think will get them elected.

Ron Paul is 89% right in this instance.

Torture bad. Assassination bad. Secret prisons bad. Military courts bad. Immunity to whistle blowers good. Corporate/Preventative war bad. Collateral damage bad. Occupation/puppet governments bad.

China's exploitation based, pollution heavy economy is great for CEOs, executive boards and other profiteers whom are insulated from negative externalities; not so much for the rest of us. It is instructive that RP sees this as a positive model of capitalism. It is not.

RP is no Chomsky, but he has a decent handle on the symptoms. What he doesn't seem able to do is to connect the dots to see the bigger picture.

Follow the money. Who benefits from these wars? Big Oil, Halliburton and Military industries are the primary beneficiaries. If you want to get the government out of the war business, get the profiteers out of government. Curb the lobbyists, reform campaign finance laws and reverse the corrupt 5 to 4 supreme court ruling that gives corporations unlimited anonymous influence over our system. I understand that this is easier said than done.

Give the system back to the people and let us decide our own foreign policy.

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Awesome speech. He's right on 100% of what he's saying. 100%.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
Ron Paul says what he believes, I'll give him great props for that. Some of the time he gets it right and he's the lone voice of sanity in the wilderness. But a LOT of the things he says are just kooky, that's why he doesn't get elected. He believes that things like the BP oil spill would be LESS likely to happen with LESS regulation. He thinks that the free market will do a better job of regulating than the government can do. He's a loveable nut, fun to watch and like I said, sometimes, like now he gets it right.
But for President? Are you crazy?
>> ^coolhund:
I also think he speak 100% the truth and how it really is. That he doesnt read his speech from papers indicates also that he means it.
So, Americans, why doesnt he get voted for?



Let's be honest now... I will tell you why he never gets elected, even though most of us know and just deny it. We love our drama--Paul is boring in his decency. We love our ambigious policy. How dare he state his beliefs against the death penalty, or that states should regulate gay marriage and abortion instead of the federal government (That is to the republicans...) And how dare he state his beliefs on currency and true deficit reduction and such... (To democrats.)

Paul is not a poster child and will never be elected president by a people who love the staple... We are fat because we want to be, lazy, double-standard, ignorant---and we transfer that to the polls.

Now, I do not agree with Paul 100% either, I think he is perhaps 70% right at most, but him versus Sara-idoit Palin or Barrack just-like-every-other-pol-Obama?

Find me a person 10 times better, and that is Paul. Find me someone better than Paul---and I will vote for him. Now his son... I could cry...

lol @ first 30 seconds ... exact OBVIOUS point that made Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright a target.

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