Posted on 12/14/2007 12:00:40 PM PST by this is my name not yours
RALEIGH - No, you're not imagining things. That really is a Ron Paul for President blimp flying over the City of Raleigh today.
Organizers for the blimp took off this morning at 8am at the Airship Management Hangar in Elizabeth City, North Carolina and they are on their way to Chester, South Carolina where they will make their first stop.
This afternoon, the blimp will be flying over north Raleigh and will most likely be visible from Interstate 540 at some point, said Bryce Henderson, a media coordinator for the effort.
Organizers say the current schedule has it passing over Raleigh at 1 pm, Greensboro at 3pm, Charlotte at 5pm and landing in Chester, SC around 6pm. The blimp will spend the night in Chester and then head to Columbia, South Carolina in the morning.
Organizers say that the public can follow along on the inaugural trip as the blimps coordinates are relayed to www.ronpaulblimp.com via GPS and a live camera feed will also be inside the blimps cabin, broadcasting events in real time to www.justin.tv.
Organizers cautioned that the are assuming weather conditions are agreeable.
"Simply to take the blimp out of the hanger requires the wind speed to be under 15 knots," said orgnizers in a statement to the media.
Supporter for Ron Paul, who is running for President on the Republican ballot, raised the close to $300,000 necessary to place the advertisement on the blimp. Ron Paul has been in the news quite a bit lately as a candidate who has gained much momentum via the Internet. His supporters recently made over $4 million in campaign donations in one day at his website.
Trevor Lyman, who was one of the key figures behind the massive Ron Paul fundraising effort, also helped organize the blimp trip and will be on board.
Stick around. I’m sure some Ron Paul fanatic will post a video on YouTube.
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They don't. That fraudulent claim has been exposed so many times now I would think you would be embarrassed to make it yet again.
Got a tin foil hat explanation for that?
I would think that if someone wanted a tinfoil hat explanation of anything, they should go to the one GOP candidate who has frequently appeared on the broadcast show of Alex Jones, America's premier tinfoiler.
Keep propping up your money-grubbing, treasonous hero.
It won't help him much after he is reduced to pulp on Super Tuesday. The GOP rank and file just don't like defeatists, traitors and liars as much as Paulestinians do. Sorry.
There is only one politician out there for President who is honest and telling the truth. Only one politician who has consistently taken a moral stand against corruption, waste and onerous taxation.
There is only one politician who addresses the issues of our massive deficit, the decline of the dollar, the massive inflation caused by the out of control printing of dollars by the Fed.
There is only one politician who is actually trying to end the foreign involvements and wars which have left us bankrupt ,a soon to be third world country, no longer free and the laughing stock of the rest of the solvent world.
That person is RON PAUL. If America does not wake up and realize this, we are doomed to be a has-been great country.
If you don’t vote for Ron Paul, you will get what you deserve. Instant Karma.
If you want to continue with endless war, then why don’t you personally pay for it, and your children, and their children, and their children (on and on).
I’m here for ya’... ;-)
People are more interested in the economy because a few suicidal Arabs (self limiting problem) have caused us to bankrupt our country, which is allowing them to achieve their goal of destroying America.
By the way, it was Saudi’s, not Iraqi’s that attacked us. Duh. Apparently in our haste to make war, we invaded the wrong country. Ron Paul voted against that. Wow, that must make him a nutcase.
There is only one politician who addresses...
There is only one politician who is actually trying to...
As another FReeper pointed out recently, phrases like this on these threads are always followed by a bunch of cultist BS.
Compare and contrast LRon to this blast from the past.
Come on, you just have to say something. Ambasitor Keyes is much more of a true Man of America than LRon. There's not just slogans on his web site. And he does not even spam. No Soros money here.........
I like Alan Keyes. And Ron Paul. I think they are both good men and true Men of America.
I can’t think of a single president whose first elected office was president and who wasn’t a war hero. You’ve got to work your way up the ladder — the only way around that is to lead an army to victory. Keyes has done neither.
What a load of c***. I can’t believe the cult following this fraud has.
I don’t know what candidate you support for President. But supporting someone for President and being passionate and committed about it does not constitute joining a cult. It is a basic part of our American system.
Ron Paul is not a fraud, he is honest and has been consistent about his beliefs his entire political life. You may not agree with him, but calling him a fraud is inaccurate, as is calling his following a cult.
Your resorting to a starred out obscenity shows that you apparently are at a loss for real words, so I will forgive you for your poor understanding of words and what they mean.
I havent been so scared since Whispers of the Wolf.
Bush, our current president, was not a war hero. Granted this was not his first elected office, but he had led no armies to victory.
Of course, I can’t say that he has done very well in his position as Commander in Chief.
I have no problem electing a non-warrior to office. Maybe they will be better at diplomatic solutions to problems. I see wars as a total failure of politicians to achieve a solution without destruction and loss of human life. Meaning they have done a poor job.
While Bush has disappointed me on some things, I'm damn glad he was in office when 9/11 occurred instead of some namby-pamby like Ron Paul.
I shudder to think what our nation would be now if it were led by some Al Qaeda appeaser.
Al Qaeda is wounded and limping now, thanks to the right leadership at the right time. Ol' Cut-and- Run Paul would have just further enabled and emboldened them and we'd all be in harm's way.
It’ll be sinking like a lead zeppelin soon enough...
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ROFL! Monster Chiller Horror Theater. I don't think I'd ever seen that clip before.
Nor do I. My point is that presidents are usually politicians with experience in office -- the only way around that is to be a war hero. Either works. I can't think of a president who was neither.
Andrew Jackson, US Grant, Ike, and maybe WH Harrison -- those are the only presidents I can think of who held no prior elected office, and they were all victorious generals.
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