Ron Paul...Now With 500% More Money (1508 hits)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (View user info) at 2007-07-08 17:25:58 EDT
Ron Paul discloses on ABC News that his campaign has raised $2.4 million in the second quarter of 2007. That's about four times as much as in the first quarter, and he now has more cash on hand than one time 'frontrunner', Senator John McCain. http://youtube.com/watch?v=SfjdD7-2qIY
If a 'frontrunner' should be defined as someone who, as many have suggested, has the funds to pull off a presidential bid, does this now mean that the media will have to rethink the order of the 'frontrunners' and include Dr. Paul over Sen. McCain? Or, will they continue to prop up a lame-duck candidate, giving him impromptu blood transfusions, keeping him in the political iron lung? On the downslide of his presidential bid, will he continue to receive the same preferential treatment from the mainstream media, and how much longer can he justify his 'frontrunner' label? A better question might be, how long till McCain just drops out of the race altogether?
On a different, but related, note - I understand the strategy of Fred Thompson to sit along the sidelines and let the others battle their way into the fourth quarter when he feels he can step in fresh and deliver the victory like some knight in shining armor when everyone else is worn and weary, but why are Republicans again reverting to resting their hopes in an actor? And when is this actor going to do some actual character research, debating on the issues? When is he going to have to face the American voters and show how his foreign policies are absolutely no different than Giuliani's, McCain's, or even Clinton's?
As soon as he opens his mouth it should be obvious he is no different than the rest of the 'frontrunners' as we've been presented them. His campaign contributions will show how the same people backing the other 'frontrunners' calling themselves 'candidates' are also backing Thompson.
Problem is, Thompson doesn't have to report any of these contributions until he officially announces his candidacy, which could be at the last possible hour. Maybe that's part of the reason he's waiting, or maybe it is as I said before he's too chickenshit to face anyone on equal ground, and his ideas are too stale and trodden to warrant a another debate on them. Maybe he feels, as if like some B-movie monster, that he can get a better audience response simply by lurking in the shadows, remaining silent, and rarely showing himself onscreen, or maybe the disappointment of showing everyone hinging their hopes on him as the 'next big thing' that his mystique was better served when he kept his mouth largely shut and didn't reveal himself as just another B-actor in a campy Halloween mask is just too much for him.
We'll see. I predict that within a week of McCain dropping out, Thompson will enter, or vice versa... And one will be a fitting replacement for the other - one actor with shitty ideas for another actor with the same shitty ideas.
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2007-07-09 22:38:54 EDT (#)
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Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-07-09 07:50:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2007-07-09 00:09:39 EDT (#)
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"animal farm" positively ripped my head open as a kid, definitely on my top ten list of all time greatest books. Im glad you're going to read ETS it I can positively say that it will change how you are apporaching your cause. I think ETS you may read that and see what I have been trying to say in my reviews of your posts since I came here.
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I seriously doubt it. If 1984 is any kind of measuring stick of Animal Farm, it's probably going to reinforce what I always say more than change it.
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animal farm is an allegory for communism as it works in the real world and not on paper. bit different than 1984.
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Orwell often said that his reason for writing was to combat totalitarianism in all its forms, communism being one of them.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2007-07-09 22:37:46 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Scott_James (user info) at 2007-07-09 09:07:59 EDT (#)
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Watch out for Thompson. The American public seems to have an affinity for electing second-rate actors to higher office. Hasn´t Thompson actually played the President in several films?
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I couldn't give you an entire rundown, but I'll tell you this... About a year ago, I combed the internet on a whim looking for free DVDS, one of them I had shipped to me was a DVD where Fred Thompson played the president in a situation where "terrorists" were trying to smuggle a nuclear weapon over the border with Canada.
When are people going to learn that being able to ACT like a president in front of a camera doesn't mean one would make a good one. Hell, just look at George Bush.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-07-09 16:20:25 EDT (#)
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His wife makes lovely fishsticks too!
Submitted by Scott_James (user info) at 2007-07-09 09:07:59 EDT (#)
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Watch out for Thompson. The American public seems to have an affinity for electing second-rate actors to higher office. Hasn´t Thompson actually played the President in several films?
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-07-09 07:50:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2007-07-09 01:33:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2007-07-09 00:09:39 EDT (#)
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"animal farm" positively ripped my head open as a kid, definitely on my top ten list of all time greatest books. Im glad you're going to read ETS it I can positively say that it will change how you are apporaching your cause. I think ETS you may read that and see what I have been trying to say in my reviews of your posts since I came here.
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I seriously doubt it. If 1984 is any kind of measuring stick of Animal Farm, it's probably going to reinforce what I always say more than change it.
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animal farm is an allegory for communism as it works in the real world and not on paper. bit different than 1984.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-07-09 03:15:54 EDT (#)
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What a strange way to start an email, such an official email too.
Strange.........
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2007-07-09 02:59:56 EDT (#)
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Duly noted, i personally wouldnt put that much faith in a politician because I know how slowly the system works, and to change it as drastically as is needed would take many many years and nothing short of a mircle! But I have to respect any opinion that someone is so passionate about (as you clearly are).
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2007-07-09 01:33:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2007-07-09 00:09:39 EDT (#)
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"animal farm" positively ripped my head open as a kid, definitely on my top ten list of all time greatest books. Im glad you're going to read ETS it I can positively say that it will change how you are apporaching your cause. I think ETS you may read that and see what I have been trying to say in my reviews of your posts since I came here.
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I seriously doubt it. If 1984 is any kind of measuring stick of Animal Farm, it's probably going to reinforce what I always say more than change it.
I'm fairly well read, I just said I didn't always read what I was supposed to. Very rarely do books blow apart everything a person thinks. More often they just augment what was already thought.
As for you question about how I know Ron Paul is legit... the man's voting record speaks for itself. I don't need him to lie to me, I can look for myself and see the things he's done. Most people are simply too fucking lazy to do that.
Plus, he doesn't avoid questions. Even with some of the "fringe" ideas he has, he does not run from scrutiny, he welcomes it. I have never seen him avoid a question asked of him. He takes the time to explain his views even when they are unpopular. THAT is the sign of a real leader.
Ron Paul is not playing 'the game'. He acts and speaks out of principle, even when he's ridiculed for it. With him you know exactly what you're getting because everything he does is consistent with what he speaks. Special interest money has not tainted him. He is beholden to no one as far as I can tell, and if he were, he's not exactly acting like the ideal puppet since he wants to tear down virtually every mechanism of control the international mobsters have at their disposal.
I believe what he says because I use my fucking brain and I question people's motives and I observe consequences beyond just what's on the face of things. Put it this way, if Ron Paul was a puppet and was just going to do the same things as all the others once in office, why wouldn't he simply ACT like one of them? Why go out on this limb of perceived political suicide like people say he is? It makes no sense whatsoever to do that. Why go against the grain and make all the other people who are bought off by the same entities look so utterly stupid?
And you know something, my loyalty to him as a candidate is not without conditions. If he fucked me over and didn't do what he said, I'd return the favor by not voting for him next time. I know he won't though, because there is no motive for him to do so.
He resisted the flow in 2002 before we went to Iraq, and he stood up in the House and SAID something about it. He spoke out then, as now, for peace and non-intervention, even when he was being called "unpatriotic" and "unAmerican" for it. There was no money in doing that. The real money, if he was so corrupted, would have been in turning a blind eye, blending into the crowd, allowing the war to happen, and later claiming he didn't have all the information necessary to make a good decision like all the other cowards on Capital Hill have done.
We, the American people, are cowards if we don't make them all pay for it. Every last goddamned one of them that voted for this war should be thrown out of office. They knew EXACTLY what they were doing, and anyone who believes otherwise is just an idiot who doesn't understand how politicians lie to them daily and how the media has become complicit in all that they do. We're being played. Ron Paul is one of the very few exceptions.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2007-07-09 00:09:39 EDT (#)
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"animal farm" positively ripped my head open as a kid, definitely on my top ten list of all time greatest books. Im glad you're going to read ETS it I can positively say that it will change how you are apporaching your cause. I think ETS you may read that and see what I have been trying to say in my reviews of your posts since I came here. Usually the individuals that oppose those in power and then are given that power themselves change in many ways for the worse (much to the dismay of those they would rule). Im not saying that you're wrong, just that your intense devotion to one man's campaign (seemingly having no doubt that this man will not make the same mistakes as those before him), should maybe be scaled back a little. I do however respect your devotion because it is so rare to find these days. I have just one question to ask, do you have any doubt in your mind as to Ron Pauls plan? what I mean to say is, how do you know that you aren't just being told what you want to hear so that your vote will be cast in his direction? I ask this with all seriousness and with a complete lack of sarcasm, I truly would like to know your opinion.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-07-09 00:02:26 EDT (#)
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watch out for those challenges Siren:
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2007-06-14 02:56:28 EDT (#)
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http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/jsiegel/Personal/taxes/JustNoLaw.htm
Post you eating your own shit.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2007-07-08 23:55:17 EDT (#)
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Submitted by cocaine (user info) at 2007-07-08 23:41:45 EDT (#)
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you're backing a loser, buddy.
but i'm sure you already know that...and that it's not the point....and that the point is that you have to stick to what you believe in....and you believe in ron paul....who is a loser.
so what does that make you?
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Now this is what we need more of! Logical thinkers! You will go far with a mind like that! Don't forget about small people like us when you're at the top!
Submitted by cocaine (user info) at 2007-07-08 23:41:45 EDT (#)
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you're backing a loser, buddy.
but i'm sure you already know that...and that it's not the point....and that the point is that you have to stick to what you believe in....and you believe in ron paul....who is a loser.
so what does that make you?
Submitted by Flack (user info) at 2007-07-08 22:42:26 EDT (#)
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Ron Paul's tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried!
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2007-07-08 21:13:54 EDT (#)
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wow...
impressed @ Siren
Submitted by Adam_Warlock (user info) at 2007-07-08 20:43:01 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2007-07-08 20:03:11 EDT (#)
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Holy fuck balls, I meant "From Freedom to Fascism." I'm such a dyslexic illiterate gay Jew with ass boils.
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2007-07-08 20:01:46 EDT (#)
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This country does indeed need Ron Paul. I'm actually changing my voter registration to Republican just to vote for him in the primary.
Some may say his ideals to rid us of the Federal Reserve are far fetched and unnecessary. I would advise those of you to A. Read The Creature from Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin, OR (since most of you don't read past a 2nd grade level {joking, jeez} ) B. Watch America: To Freedom from Fascism. You will change your tune.
Did you know that your income taxes are higher because of the Federal Reserve? Did you know that it is NOT against the law to NOT pay your taxes at all? There is no such law stating that we are required to pay our federal income taxes. None, and I challenge you to that.
Oh I could go on about Thomas Jefferson writing that no man shall pay taxes against his will, and so on. But, you can form your own opinions, as I'm sure most of you already have, not willing to budge... even if it means giving up your rights as an American citizen.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2007-07-08 19:55:32 EDT (#)
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Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-07-08 18:35:32 EDT (#)
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and actually upanishads was on my reading list but i went to catholic school so we had to do that for world religion study.
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Some of the Upanishads read very similarly to Christ's teachings.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-07-08 19:34:48 EDT (#)
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you fail at maths.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-07-08 18:35:32 EDT (#)
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and actually upanishads was on my reading list but i went to catholic school so we had to do that for world religion study.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-07-08 18:31:42 EDT (#)
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animal farm made me cry :(
they kill the horse.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2007-07-08 18:02:28 EDT (#)
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Reading that report in its entirety would just piss me off. I've read sections, and I've searched the document for specific things that were, surprise, not in there, but I honestly couldn't bring myself to read the entire report.
Right now I'm trudging my way through a book I found at St. Vincent's (kinda like Salvation Army) called "America's Money Machine: The Story of the Federal Reserve". Pretty educational. Next, I intend to read "Animal Farm". That's one of the many books I was supposed to read in school but didn't because I was reading something else at the time - usually some book on science and God, or some religious text like The Upanishads that wasn't on the curriculum.
So many things to do, so little time, it seems, to do them. I still have 2 albums worth of song material I haven't recorded; I have to revamp my website; I am finally playing live music again starting this Saturday... There's always something left undone. I wonder if we die in such a state, do our spirits simply linger in limbo thinking about all that we have yet to accomplish?
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-07-08 17:43:50 EDT (#)
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dreadful english below.
I'm tired.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2007-07-08 17:42:56 EDT (#)
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Auto 'Show of Hands +2'
vote Ron Paul.
Funnily enough, I am just (finishing) reading the 911 Commission Report, I realise for all of the 9/11 Documentaries I have wathced like 7 Days in September, 911 and the British Broadcasting Conspiracy, 9/11: A Closer Look, 9/11: The Birth of Treason, 911 Eyewitness, 9/11: The Great Illusion, part 1, 9/11: The Great Illusion, part 2, 911: The Greatest Lie Ever Sold, 9/11 In Plane Site - The Director's Cut, 9/11 Mysteries, 9/11 Octopus, 9/11: Press for Truth, 911: The Road to Tyranny, 911: The Road to Tyranny Extras, Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 911, An hour long smorgasbord of content from Louder Than Words, Building the World Trade Center, Bush's Response to 9/11, Confronting the Evidence, Conspiracy Theories, Destruction of Building 7, The Empire Of Oil: The Hidden History Of 9/11, Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime, Face the Facts ,Google Spider Goats and currently Who Killed John O'Neill ... I still haven't finished reading the damn report.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2007-07-08 17:42:48 EDT (#)
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Didn't read it.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2007-07-08 17:39:50 EDT (#)
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It's just my commentary, if you don't like it, don't read it.
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2007-07-08 17:30:38 EDT (#)
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I'm sorry man. I actually kinda like you, in the way I like peeling scabs off knee scrapes.
But you're becoming boring as hell, and repetitive, and tedious.
Pick a new subject, man. Nobody with half a noggin' needs you to inform them of the political machine and mechanisms going on in America.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2007-07-08 17:29:47 EDT (#)
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I'm voting for Jesus.
He's my savior, you know.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2007-07-08 17:29:37 EDT (#)
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Recent campaign email:
July 8, 2007
It's not because Congressman Ron Paul is getting married. He and his wife Carol celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in February of this year. It's because a young couple in southern California is getting married in August. And that's why Dr. Paul will be receiving wedding gifts. Douglas Blair, a campaign staffer, explains:
We were at the campaign headquarters one night recently when a call came in from a young lady in southern California. She told me she had been visiting friends, and had chanced to see Ron Paul speak at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City on June 15. The caller was so impressed by what she had heard that not only was she going to vote for Dr. Paul, but wanted to do everything she could to see him become president.
She really wasn't kidding.
After asking for the website address for the campaign's donation page, she then proceeded to tell this astonished staffer that it was because she was "getting married in August, and wanted to have wedding guests donate to Ron Paul's presidential campaign instead of bringing gifts."
"My honey and I are willing to forego all manner of housewares and kitchen gadgets to help Ron Paul get elected," she laughed. "My mom doesn't know what to think, but I really want him to win -- it's that important to me."
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