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If he was this much a biggot there would surely be more.Originally Posted by therealjondoe
Originally Posted by wawaweewa
Originally Posted by EvansST
Here you go http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/10/paul.newsletters/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2008/P...ul.newsletters/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2008/P...ul.newsletters/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2008/P...ul.newsletters/index.htmlOriginally Posted by wawaweewa
Originally Posted by therealjondoe
Originally Posted by wawaweewa
First time I ever heard Ron Paul being called a racist.Originally Posted by therealjondoe
Originally Posted by wawaweewa
Originally Posted by therealjondoe
Originally Posted by wawaweewa
No.Originally Posted by therealjondoe
Originally Posted by wawaweewa
I hope so.
The reason why Im not optimistic is because in his political career thus far Obama has shown no penchant for "change".
He has advisers and backers such as Rubin, Bezinski, and Soros who are part of the establishment that's got us into our present mess of a country.
I'm being serious here when I say that if Obama said that he'd appoint Rev. Wright as Sec. of State or another post I'd applaud him for that and I'd jumped on the bandwagon faster than Diddy running to a Prison shower room. Seriosuly.
That would be real change.
Obama has shown me nothign thus far therefore I can only assume that he's spewing a bunch of empty rhetoric. Also, for the msot part that rhetoric doesn't adresses fundamental problems and is awfully vague.
so your blind and deaf i take it
I choose to look at actions rather than words.
Words are like a-holes...
Take Ron Paul as an example. His congressional record speaks for itself.
What has Obama done? Voted in favor of: Extending the Patriot Act, Telecom Immunity Act, Bailout
That doesn't look like change to me.
ron paul is a racist
Way to refute my points.
you said all i need to hear
im done
i dont deal with racists or racist supporters
h a g n !
well you should do a little more research about who you support
Maybe you should stop making things up.
I've never heard Paul utter anything racist. Maybe you can produce that tape/ audio recording?
Or is it guilt by association? Such as "Obama must be racist because Rev. Wright and a few racist Black Panthers support him!"
Yeh. I saw those when they came up in the primary.
Paul says he didn't write them. Taking his entire record into account I tend to believe him.
Matt Welch, the editor-in-chief of "Reason" magazine who shares some of Paul's beliefs on big government, says he has never heard the congressman make racist comments like those in the newsletters.
Ron Paul's been agaisnt eh drug war from the beginning. What was the drug's wars purpose in the first place?
hint: control certain populations. Listen to the Nixon tapes.
The Freedom Report's online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul's newsletters, in part because of a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles "Lefty" Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that "opinion polls consistently show only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions," that "if you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be," and that black representative Barbara Jordan is "the archetypical half-educated victimologist" whose "race and sex protect her from criticism." At the time, Paul's campaign said that Morris had quoted the newsletter out of context. Later, in 2001, Paul would claim that someone else had written the controversial passages. (Few of the newsletters contain actual bylines.) Caldwell, writing in the Times Magazine last year, said he found Paul's explanation believable, "since the style diverges widely from his own."
Finding the pre-1999 newsletters was no easy task, but I was able to track many of them down at the libraries of the University of Kansas and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Of course, with few bylines, it is difficult to know whether any particular article was written by Paul himself. Some of the earlier newsletters are signed by him, though the vast majority of the editions I saw contain no bylines at all. Complicating matters, many of the unbylined newsletters were written in the first person, implying that Paul was the author.
But, whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul's name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views. What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics.
.........Of course, with few bylines, it is difficult to know whether anyparticular article was written by Paul himself. Some of the earlier newsletters are signed by him, though the vast majority of the editions I saw contain nobylines at all. Complicating matters, many of the unbylined newsletters were written in the first person, implying that Paul was the author.......
It was funny how this came out right nefore the NH primary when Paul was winning...
I'm sure he's a closet racist though.
If he was such a racist and biggot writing thise for 20+ years than surely there are a few tapes/audio/ pictures of him at speaking these things and attendingkkk meetings.
oof: everything is perfect. im sureeveryone knows we are in shambles and we need a lot of work. but we gave bush 8 years. why not try something different and no not a black man but a democratand see what he can do?
