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[cdninkorea]

As impossible as it may seem, I've only recently learned who Congressman Ron Paul is; I'm Canadian, was in Korea during the '08 US presidential election, and didn't pay much attention to it because I don't generally care for politicians.

[If you don't know who he is, I encourage you to watch all six parts of John Stossel's interview of Paul:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJz81lAwY0M (part one)]

I can't remember ever being so inspired by a politician, and I hope the rumours are true that he'll throw his hat into the presidential election of 2012. My hope is that one day his policies as president will inspire a Canadian prime minister to take politics there in a similar direction, which would allow me to come back from my self-imposed economic exile.

[mises]

Here is RP at his best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHfdSi-GDo

( or the remix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqAF-Alc7CM )

I've been following him since 2000. I was blown away at the support he received during the election.

[Senior]

If he ran in 2012 (and won) he would be 80 by the end of his first term. If he ran with a solid V.P (who?), he could definitely be a goer. 80 is old but not that old.

[cdninkorea]

Excellent video, Mises: it almost gave me chills to hear something so poetic and brilliant.

[ontheway]

[Senior]

[.38 Special]

Being president is hard, hard work. Look at most of the presidents and compare how they looked at their first day in office to their last -- they look like Hell. They usually bounce back after a couple of years of retirement, but the leader of the free world is all stress, all the time.

Frankly, I don't know if Paul can physically handle it. That said, if he feels he is up to it, he has my vote, no problem. But I won't encourage a man to cut his life short, even if it is for a great cause. That is a private decision.

Maybe his son could run as VP .... think about that for a minute

[bacasper]

[ontheway]

What makes Ron Paul awesome is that he has planted the seeds of rEVOLution, a Libertarian revolution for peace, prosperity and freedom that is growing in the hearts of millions and still spreading and is the only hope for the future of mankind:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bitxwy6okn4&feature=player_embedded#!

[mises]

[mises]

On Israel:

http://www.ronpaul.com/2010-06-03/ron-paul-u-s-shouldnt-support-israels-gaza-blockade/

Captain Crazy is a damn good human being. One of the only ones in a prominent position.

[Sergio Stefanuto]

[ThingsComeAround]

[Leon]

Ron Paul would be a disastrous leader. How he has as much support as he does amazes me, and that some of that support comes from other wise intelligent people adds to my amazement.

He wants to:

Withdraw from the U.N.

Withdraw from N.A.T.O

Wants to legitimize gold and silver as currency

Do away with corporate environmental and pollution regulation

Get rid of the Department of Education

His "We the People Act" included a provision that would allow local and state government the ability to bar atheists from office

He voted against the Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act of 2007 which states that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi Internet connection to the public, who "obtains actual knowledge of any facts or circumstances" in relation to illegal visual media such as child pornography transferred over that connection, must register a report of their knowledge to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children




Also for some one who claims to be against government spending...

"Paul's position is disingenuous because he often requests earmarks for bills that he supposedly knows will pass no matter which way he votes. For example, in 2007 he requested nearly $400 million dollars in earmarks in bills he voted against."

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Paul himself has inserted appropriations for projects such as the renovation of a movie theater and subsidies for the shrimp industry, whereas reportedly, "neither of which is envisioned in the Constitution as an essential government function."

The sad part is that I agree with many of his positions such as on the war on drugs and voting against the Iraq war as well as many of his positions of social issues. I believe the problem with Ron Paul is that he filters everything through his ideology rather than what is most workable and provides the most benefit. Similar to his and Rands position on the civil rights act. When politicians hew too closely to a strict ideology nothing good happens.

[bacasper]