Ron Paul on War

[Adele Edisen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeCpLcjxO...=endscreen

Video about 5 minutes long.

There is also another video where Ron Paul gives a very strong defense of Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

Adele

[Adele Edisen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn8jNdnGq...creen&NR=1

Video about 3.5 minutes long

Why aren't people paying attention to Ron Paul?

Adele

[Magda Hassan]

I like Ron Paul's stay at home military policy. And his liberal drug policy. But the majority of his domestic policies really stink. But it is true there seems to be some sort of media black out on him. He has large numbers of supporters in many states but the coverage is not in accordance to his popularity. Where as Romney.....believes in magic underpants and he's a viable candidate and taken seriously?

[Seamus Coogan]

I like Ron Paul's stay at home military policy. And his liberal drug policy. But the majority of his domestic policies really stink. But it is true there seems to be some sort of media black out on him. He has large numbers of supporters in many states but the coverage is not in accordance to his popularity. Where as Romney.....believes in magic underpants and he's a viable candidate and taken seriously?

A to the K sister!

[Adele Edisen]

Magda and Seamus,

I guess because he is basically a Libertarian he has some dfiffering views. He is a physician, an obstetrician, and is opposed to abortion. I don't know how extreme his views would be toward saving the life of a woman at the expense of her fetus, nor do I favor most of his domestic policies, but his views on the central private banking systems, Federal Reserve System and similar banks in other countries, are very sensible, even though his economic thinking comes from a conservative base, Ludvig von Mises and the Mises Institute. He seems to have studed economics intensively, and a few years ago was able to achieve the passage of a bill to audit the Federal Reserve System in the U.S. House of Representatives with a sizable majority and co-sponsors. That bill did not survive in the US Senate, though.

He has accumulated a small group of delegates going into the Republican Convention, but how much influence they might have there is somewhat questionable. However, he did stand out in the crowd of nine during the Republican candidates' debates by speaking out for Peace and against War. Romney and all of the others are Hawks.

Adele

[Magda Hassan]

He seems like a nice guy. And he does stand out in the crowd of chicken hawks and is to be respected for that. I'm sure sure he will not have much of a chance of prevailing so it is some what moot but I do find it interesting that he is not given the media coverage he deserves given his support on the ground there. Yeah, he had that bill to audit the Fed but I liked Kucinich's ready to go legislation to abolish the Fed a lot more. That didn't get the go ahead either. Surprisingly. :flypig:

[Adele Edisen]

Yes, Dennis Kucinich's NEED Act would absorb the Federal Reserve into the Treasury Department and make it within the control of the government, but at the time Ron Paul introduced his Audit the Fed bill some years ago, it took a long time for him to line up co-sponsors and votes in the House of Representatives, and he worked very hard to do it. It was a daring and brave thing to do. (Remember what happened to Louis McFadden)

However, Ron Paul wrote a book titled END THE FED, published in 2009. The American people, including our politicians, have very poor backgrounds or educations in economics, banking and finance. How he bothered to educate himself by reading Ludvig von Mises, and the history of private central banking, etc., makes him exceptional.

Incidentally, his son, Rand Paul, and he have some considerablde differences of opinions. Some people think that Ron Paul was not expecting to run for the presidency but was doing it to mark a place for his son in the future; he is currently in Congress from another state..

Anyway, Ron Paul is a different kind of Republican.

Adele
P.S. We are going to lose Dennis Kucinich in the House of Representatives becase of redistricting in Cleveland, Ohio. He had to run against another worthy Democrat in the primary and lost, so this is his last year. I will miss him.