"Paul's newsletters have carried different titles over the years--Ron Paul's Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report--but they generally seem to have been published on a monthly basis since at least 1978....During some periods, the newsletters were published by the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, a nonprofit Paul founded in 1976; at other times, they were published by Ron Paul & Associates, a now-defunct entity in which Paul owned a minority stake, according to his campaign spokesman. The Freedom Report claimed to have over 100,000 readers in 1984. At one point, Ron Paul & Associates also put out a monthly publication called The Ron Paul Investment Letter.posted by ericb at 2:49 PM on January 8, 2008
The Freedom Report's online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul's newsletters....Finding the pre-1999 newsletters was no easy task, but I was able to track many of them down at the libraries of the University of Kansas and the Wisconsin Historical Society....But, whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul's name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views...."
Congress should read the bills. But to do that requires an appropriate amount of time. More appropriately phrased, Congress should be ALLOWED to read the bills. And no member of Congress should, in good conscience, vote affirmatively on a bill they haven't fully analyzed.posted by mullacc at 3:24 PM on January 8, 2008 [5 favorites]
When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name.Jesus fucking Christ.
Still, "Ron Paul, so stupid he didn't realize he was helping racists" isn't what I'd call a good campaign slogan.Well, sure, when you put it that way, it sounds pretty bad. But consider this one instead:
So here's the simplest question, though for the answer, somebody would have to post scans of the newsletters: Did Ron Paul profit from screeds printed under his name? It wouldn't matter if he read them or not.Try this one that blahblahblah linked to.
Are you tring to tell me the 14th Congressional District in Texas have elected a half-wit, most likely a racist, sexist and homophobic representative, and have kept him in office for 20 years?Bingo!
NAFTA’s superhighway is just one part of a plan to erase the borders between the U.S. and Mexico, called the North American Union. This spawn of powerful special interests, would create a single nation out of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, with a new unelected bureaucracy and money system. Forget about controlling immigration under this scheme.Some googling leads me to believe that some academics have proposed things like a shared currency, but it's a far-off idea that has little traction in the US government, or any other government. I'm pretty sure Canada would actually be hurt right now by sharing our currency. What we have here, though, is a statement of fact on the Ron Paul campaign website that there is such a plan. All three governments that would be involved say there is no such plan. The Federal Highway Administration says there is no plan for a "superhighway." So how the hell is a reference to this as a factual basis for argument anything other than a scare tactic conspiracy theory?
Ron Paul is being interviewed on a conservative Christian radio network and is being pressured to condemn gay people by the homophobic host. Ron Paul refuses to do so and explains why. If there was any place in the world where he could show his bigotry openly and get away with it, it was on a Christian radio station with listeners who would almost entirely agree with such hatred. And he refused to pander even though that probably cost him votes in a segment he was hoping to do well in. That says a lot about the man.Also saying a lot about the man is:
Ridiculous as sodomy laws may be, there clearly is no right to privacy nor sodomy found anywhere in the Constitution. There are, however, states’ rights – rights plainly affirmed in the Ninth and Tenth amendments. Under those amendments, the State of Texas has the right to decide for itself how to regulate social matters like sex, using its own local standards. But rather than applying the real Constitution and declining jurisdiction over a properly state matter, the Court decided to apply the imaginary Constitution and impose its vision on the people of Texas.Yeah... it's not that he's a homophobe, it's that the Constitution clearly says that Texas can outlaw sodomy.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.He has a hell of a lot of gall to explicitly use that statement in his attempt to deny and disparage non-enumerated rights of the people.
Under the headline of ""Terrorist Update," for instance, 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."Nary an excuse of 'ghostwriters' operating under the radar in sight. It also completely contradicts his latest statement that the written viewpoints "have ever" represented what he believes.
Paul... said Wednesday... that his written commentaries about blacks came in the context of ""current events and statistical reports of the time."
... A campaign spokesman for Paul said statements about the fear of black males mirror pronouncements by black leaders such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has decried the spread of urban crime.
Nary an excuse of 'ghostwriters' operating under the radar in sight. It also completely contradicts his latest statement that the written viewpoints "have ever" represented what he believes.That's because that original excuse was written by a ghostwriter. DO YOUR RESEARCH!
Sic is a Latin word, originally sicut [1] meaning "thus", "so", or "just as that". In writing, it is placed within square brackets and usually italicized—[sic]—to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation, and/or other preceding quoted material has been reproduced verbatim from the quoted original and is not a transcription error.[2]posted by Skorgu at 4:54 AM on January 10, 2008 [1 favorite]
"'These stories may be very old in Ron Paul's life, but they're very new to the American public and they deserve to be totally ventilated,' said David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst. 'I must say I don't think there's an excuse in politics to have something go out under your name and say, "Oh by the way, I didn't write that."'"*posted by ericb at 10:26 PM on January 10, 2008
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