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Samsara on June 14, 2007 - 8:17am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

OT

Anyone see Ron Paul on the Colbert Report last night?

http://www.dailypaul.com/

It will be on the ReRun tonight at 8:30est on the Comedy Channel...

Shameless plug for Ron Paul

Hope he would name Roscoe Bartlett as his Energy Sec.

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eric blair on June 14, 2007 - 9:13am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Many see Ron Paul as their shibboleth to obtaining change in government.

9/11 truthers, using government to stop corruption, the people who think executive orders are bunk, et la. If these people's believes are correct, Dr. Paul is a dead man walking - right?

Many have said that if you seek the job a president there is something wrong with you and you should not have the job...so under that definition Dr. Paul should not be President.

Lets say Dr. Paul became the Prez. The underlings across the government will still be (mostly) the same, The Congress won't change, et la.

If Dr. No still was Dr. No - almost every bill by the Congress should therefore be vetoed, thus needing Congress to override. One could only hope that working together to get bills passed, Congress would do a better job.

As another poster pointed out Dr Paul record on energy isn't all that good, but it is consistent with his view about what powers The Constitution grants or how a free market. if it existed, would work.

Dr. Paul has to make it though many months to get on the ballot in November. So don't spend alot of time hoping - spend your time in the next 50 days getting him past the Ames staw pole and making him #1 in the early primary states.

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DIYer on June 14, 2007 - 9:28am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Many have said that if you seek the job a president there is something wrong with you and you should not have the job...so under that definition Dr. Paul should not be President.

So, ah, um, then Al Gore maybe? No, he said he wanted to be President one time. How about Paris Hilton? That's the ticket — Paris Hilton for President!

| The problem will solve itself.
|  But not in a nice way.

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eric blair on June 14, 2007 - 9:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Snark aside - The 'don't wanna be it' argument was made by David Bender of Politically Direct when he interviewed Al Gore.

Why should Al bother? He's in the history books with his movie. Making more money (cept I'm betting with payoffs you could make more as The Leader of Da Free World) and doesn't have the headaches of that meat grinder of a job.

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shawnott on June 14, 2007 - 9:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Isn't the whole idea the same as what is found in Platos The Republic? It's the person who doesn't want to be king who you should appoint as king. The philosopher king?

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speek on June 14, 2007 - 12:58pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Except Plato really did want to be King and was only pretending not to.

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HeIsSoFly on June 14, 2007 - 10:55am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

A very impressive slap-in-the-face 2 minute Ron Paul election ad:

No More Manipulation

Also impressive, and also at YouTube, a three-part series of Ron Paul being interviewed on the Korelin Economics Report. When he starts explaining there are still today members of the Banking Committee who think the dollar is backed by gold, everyone's speechless for a moment.

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