tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post5333635606373748303..comments2024-03-26T15:19:23.091-07:00Comments on false dichotomy by charles davis: Says it all, reallyCharles Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06005070529766546097noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-20801694721597592532011-05-23T18:21:03.597-07:002011-05-23T18:21:03.597-07:00@JM - Your beef with him seems to be based on two ...@JM - Your beef with him seems to be based on two things - a position in favor of looking at the birthright citizenship issue, and a bunch of vaguely bigoted fundraising letters for campaigns within Texas during the Reagan Era. The rightness or wrongness of the birthright issue aside, he is the only major political figure to put forth publicly such a controversial idea to deal with a real problem. As for the newsletters, they need to be looked at as of their time. Any politician who has been successful for over (the past) 30 years is going to have seen society bypass some of his positions. The bottom line is that the Afghanistan War, The Iraq War, and the Drug War have murdered and maimed tens of thousands of times more poor brown people than those newsletters ever did. Moreover, the current occupant of the Oval Office can boast of killing and incarcerating more poor brown people than Dr. Paul's policies would have any hope of. There's a moral equivalence for you!LibertyVinihttp://www.libertyguys.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-21340907611430682422011-05-23T17:11:52.537-07:002011-05-23T17:11:52.537-07:00That still doesn't make his opposition to ille...That still doesn't make his opposition to illegal immigrants any better.JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03223879013564312871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-40578060078177032752011-05-23T09:37:26.083-07:002011-05-23T09:37:26.083-07:00If you can trust what Ron Pauls says, and I do, he...If you can trust what Ron Pauls says, and I do, he's repeatedly said he would like to start with cutting military budgets and then phase out other programs over time. I'm not going to vote, but I'm pretty tired of most of the criticism Paul receives when it's usually based on bad information.Chris Georgehttp://newkindofmind.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-52763074295902157752011-05-22T17:46:11.659-07:002011-05-22T17:46:11.659-07:00May I just point out that Ron Paul seems to detest...May I just point out that Ron Paul seems to detest the lower class particularly illegal immmigrants:<br />http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/05/don%E2%80%99t-fall-for-ron-paul/<br /><br />So I don't think he's the man you'd want for opposing raising military budgets over spending money one improving the lives of those in poverty.<br /><br />I, for one, am writing in Feingold and Joe strummer for 2012.JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03223879013564312871noreply@blogger.com