Posted on 09/27/2007 11:13:55 AM PDT by jmeagan
CHICAGO - Late on a balmy Friday night in Wicker Park, a gentrifying neighborhood just northwest of the Loop, a small tribe of 20-somethings gathers outside a corner bar. Their leader, a petite, energetic 25-year-old named Meghann Walker, hands out leaflets to people heading inside.
"Do you guys know Ron Paul is going to be in town tomorrow?" Walker asks a short-haired young woman in jeans and flip-flops. "There'll be a lot of good people there, that's for sure."
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Maybe he thought Jim would be interested in joining in the conversation. This seems to be a topic that Jim is passionate about, and, as the founder of the largest on-line Conservative forum, I think he would lend a valuable thought to the debate.
No need to mock someone for pinging him.
(courtesy ping Jim, I bet your ears are burning)
I didn't ask you for anything .You responded to a question from DRPIX.
To: drpix As for my answers? Abraham Lincoln Winston Churchill Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher Pope John Paul the Great 186 posted on 09/27/2007 2:03:55 PM PDT by Petronski (Congratulations Tribe! AL Central Champs) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 173 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
Just to refresh your memory;To: hschliemann Tell me who in the last 150 years of American history are your heroes? 173 posted on 09/27/2007 1:48:56 PM PDT by drpix [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 169 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
HAHAHAHA.Plan B.LOL
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!You ever hear the term "Philadelphia lawyer.No wonder you guys hate Paul so much.You take a simple question and give me the ACLU "well,it could mean this.I see that no-one else got that confused.
I’m a pragmatic voting Libertarian....I know that he will not get the nomination. But I hope he gets a decent percentage of the vote, so that his ideas have a platform for discussion. That said, I’ll vote for whomever the nominee is.
Eh, I’m a large L libertarian so I’m sure many of my views would be viewed as radical. I’m good with that. I’d like to think that the republican party is the true big umbrella party...where there’s room for all.
Actually I hope he keeps winning that district, if you can feed me a source for that quote fine. Doesn’t mean I’ll think any less of him. It’s his opinion and at least he has the balls to voice it. I’m okay with a candidate who doesn’t share my views 100% of the time....that’s who I’ll end up voting for in the general.... a compromise.
Well Ike was elected to get us out of Korea and Nixon was elected to get us out of Nam. 70% of the people are against the war now and that number will probably go to 80% by next election, unless there is a huge major improvement in Iraq. Very doubtful that will happen. You want to tell me that the more hawkish candidate will win in that type situation.
Humphrey would have beat Nixon in 68, if he could have distanced himself from LBJ’s war soon enough.
****Is that the lie you tell to get people to support Paul? I hope it hasn’t worked, only a fool would believe it.*****
Since when did opinions become lies? I am beginning to see that a lot of the anti-Ron Paul sentiment comes from people who have difficulties thinking in a logical manner.
*****Paul’s whacked out views on the war basically justifies democrats in opposing the war and their weak-at-the-knees policies on terrorism would automatically be a dead-issue, and his “get rid of everything that the founders didn’t mention in the constitution” views on pretty much everything isn’t supported by, well, anyone except his libertarian posse and the conspiracy kooks who are afraid the NWO will invade their trailers.****
Perhaps if you spent a bit of time looking at RP’s positions instead of just bashing him, you would see he is not as radical as you try to paint him. E.g. He would get rid of SS by first letting the youngest people opt out. He would protect the people depending on SS for retirement by funding it with some of the money saved by ending foreign aid and other reductions in the national government. He knows that you can’t just turn a switch and end a lot of these long standing programs, so there would be a period of transition.
****Having 2 bush-bashers, 1 a democrat and 1 a libertarian, in 2008 does NOTHING BUT HARM for the GOP or conservatives. Stop trying to sabotage Republicans with that nonsense.****
Ron Paul’s message is mainly a positive one about what he would do to reduce the size of the federal government and stop our interventionalist foreign policy. But he is for trade will all nations and diplomatic ties with all nations.
Thus my statement was true: “You did not ask me for ‘American heroes.’”
Wrong agency. DoD and other un-named agencies have military space assets for both offensive and defensive, not NASA. You have obviously not read their mission statement:
To advance and communicate scientific knowledge and understanding of the earth, the solar system, and the universe.
To advance human exploration, use, and development of space.
To research, develop, verify, and transfer advanced aeronautics and space technologies.
Yeah,I believe that.Such a wonderful enlightening conversation.TRY AGAIN.
The cleanest reading of his request was “name heroes of American history.” No requirement they be either American or heroes of Americans, merely heroic individuals in American history.
Nope,never heard that.
Tell me who in the last 150 years of American history are your heroes?
173 posted on 09/27/2007 1:48:56 PM PDT by drpix
If Winston Churchill,Margaret Thatcher,and Pope John are legitimate answers to this question,what does the word American mean here?How would that question differ from "the last 150 years of history?
No,you're confusing your posts with mine.
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