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Race 4 2008 Interview with Rep. Ron Paul

Posted on 06/04/2007 8:54:07 AM PDT by Valin

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1 posted on 06/04/2007 8:54:13 AM PDT by Valin
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To: Valin
Some Interesting Paul Quotes (growing list):

Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and commented, "If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."

"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal," Paul said.

Paul also wrote that although "we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers."

Stating that lobbying groups who seek special favors and handouts are evil, Paul wrote, "By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government" and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism.

“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.”

“War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.”

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the expense of the poor and the middle class here at home.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day and night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

I think the arrogance of power that they have where they(Republicans) themselves are like Communists....in the sense that they decide what is right. The Communist Party said that they decided what was right or wrong, it wasn't a higher source

Who do we have at the UN, Bolton, the arch Neo-Con warmonger and actually what they've done is taken the Neo-Con position on intervening on the internal affairs of other nations and regime change and they've institutionalized that in the United Nations, now the UN is in the business of regime change.

"We have turned our own country into isolationists, diplomatically we don't talk to anybody, we have more enemies than we've ever had before and fewer allies...

"Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us? They attack us because we've been over there. We've been bombing Iraq for 10 years." This is an application of the basic "blowback" idea. "I believe sincerely in blowback. If we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and free. They attack us because we are over there."


2 posted on 06/04/2007 8:56:17 AM PDT by mnehring (Ron Paul- The man for our time (if our time was 1901)..)
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To: Valin
How do you envision the future of your campaign?

He should have said, "Just like my other Presidential campaigns I expect to lose miserably."
3 posted on 06/04/2007 8:57:39 AM PDT by elizabetty (Perpetual Candidate using campaign donations for your salary - Its a good gig if you can get it.)
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Rep. Ron Paul: Well, from what I know of it I wouldn’t support it because I do believe that even though they won’t call it amnesty it really is because they are rewarding people who came here illegally.

Well...he just lost the President's vote. :)
4 posted on 06/04/2007 8:58:09 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: mnehrling

Thanks to RP the kooks are getting exposed.
The L party will see a drop in the protest votes they used to get.


5 posted on 06/04/2007 8:58:21 AM PDT by conserv8ive1 (Rudy and the Bots...blasting off to oblivion.)
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To: elizabetty

LOL.


6 posted on 06/04/2007 9:04:20 AM PDT by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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To: Valin

Boy the Pauletes are out in force posting threads here on FR. Flog that dead horse one more time. Ron Paul is a non-starter. The only people that want him to win are Libertarians that have no stomach for the WOT, Al Qaeda and other terrorists, Dummies, Kos Kids, Code Pink, Sorosites and the party of jackasses, the democrats. Great company you all are in!


7 posted on 06/04/2007 9:04:53 AM PDT by jrooney (The democrats are the friend of our enemy and the enemy of our friends. Attack them, not GW!)
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"Mr. Paul please stick to what you are good at, which is agreeing with me on Iraq and Afghanistan."

8 posted on 06/04/2007 9:05:26 AM PDT by new yorker 77 (Speaker Pelosi - Three cheers for Amnesty!)
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To: mnehrling

“Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal,” Paul said.

I’m going to have to tell my neighbors about this. I’m sure they’ll be suprised to learn that they’re all criminals.

Here we see the downside of a life spent in politics, they silly things you say can come back to bite you in the butt.


9 posted on 06/04/2007 9:08:21 AM PDT by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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To: elizabetty
He should have said, "Just like my other Presidential campaigns I expect to lose miserably."

So what he's won all of his Congressional races. He's worked in the private sector instead of making a career out of government. The fact that he's giving the GOP establishment the fits is good enough for me.

10 posted on 06/04/2007 9:18:35 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: mnehrling; All
"All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals."

Well, well, well, by that RuPaulian standard, Americans should have minded their manners and known their place, and remained loyal British subjects.

How DARE those Revolutionary ancestors of ours "initiate force" and "violate" the rights (the ROYAL rights no less!) of King George III!!!!

Here's a suggestion Paulie, take your sorry, stuck-in-the-18th-century *ass*, and move to the UK where you can start apologizing for the rest of us individuals who believe that force was justified in more than few historical instances in American history.

Pat Paulsen has a better chance of being elected President, and he's DEAD!
11 posted on 06/04/2007 9:19:38 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

AMEN


12 posted on 06/04/2007 9:20:21 AM PDT by gas0linealley
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To: jrooney
Boy the Pauletes are out in force posting threads here on FR.

So don't post on them then. It's that simple.

13 posted on 06/04/2007 9:20:29 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
So what he's won all of his Congressional races. He's worked in the private sector instead of making a career out of government. The fact that he's giving the GOP establishment the fits is good enough for me.

Wait until it's green Jello Day at the asylum next year and Ron starts giving the orderlies fits, you'll love that show.
14 posted on 06/04/2007 9:21:43 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: mnehrling

One for your list, you can put it at the top:

“The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity. In a free market, businesses that discriminate lose customers, goodwill, and valuable employees – while rational businesses flourish by choosing the most qualified employees and selling to all willing buyers. More importantly, in a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct what is essentially a sin of the heart, we should understand that reducing racism requires a shift from group thinking to an emphasis on individualism.”


15 posted on 06/04/2007 9:22:48 AM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Boy the Pauletes are out in force posting threads here on FR.
So don't post on them then. It's that simple.


You think you RuPaulians are going to pull off what a concentrated and fixated bunch of damn RudyBots couldn't?

RuPaul's quotes alone will do to him what Rudy's quotes have done, and are doing to his candidacy.


16 posted on 06/04/2007 9:23:55 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: CJ Wolf
One for your list, you can put it at the top.

Sure, before or after this one?

"If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."
17 posted on 06/04/2007 9:25:38 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: mkjessup

When I see a hornet’s nest, I leave it alone, unless and until the hornets bother me, then I go after their nest.


18 posted on 06/04/2007 9:26:25 AM PDT by gas0linealley
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To: gas0linealley
When I see a hornet’s nest, I leave it alone, unless and until the hornets bother me, then I go after their nest.

Hornet's nests bother me.
19 posted on 06/04/2007 9:29:29 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: mkjessup

Do you happen to have the full context of that quote?


20 posted on 06/04/2007 9:30:55 AM PDT by CJ Wolf
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