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I was watching Gandhi recently, as I do every year or two. It is inspirational to me. It tells the story of a man who could not possibly win the battles he chose to fight, but did anyway. There is no doubt that it is a propaganda film, funded in part by the Indian government. It scrambles his chronology. But, on the whole, it got the story right. Mohandas K. Gandhi, a lawyer, was able to transform Indian politics. He did this through force of moral character and shrewd tactics that made every official response either “Damned if we do; damned if we don’t.” I read “The Gandhi Nobody Knows” when it was published in 1983, a year after the movie was released. I know the strange side of the man. But he mobilized a huge nation without recourse to violence. That was his great legacy.
I also like the movie because it is the story of a failed empire. By 1945, the British Empire had spent itself into near bankruptcy because of two wars. It was a pale shadow of itself. It would soon grow much paler.
There are many scenes in the movie that have long grabbed my imagination, but none so much as the one in which Gandhi is seated at a table with a British military official. The official asks rhetorically, “You don’t really expect us just to march out of India, do you?” Gandhi replies, “Yes, that is exactly what I expect you to do.” In 1947, they did.
What has this to do with Ron Paul, who is running for President? At least this much: he also opposes violence, he also opposes empire, and he also believes in the long run that justice will prevail. So, he does what Gandhi did. He keeps telling the story of how a better society can be built, must be built, and will eventually be built when men reduce their commitment to violence as a way of shaping the world. This includes violence committed by the civil government.
They called Gandhi the mahatma: the great self. Ron Paul is the mahatma of self-government.
He gains applause from the anti-war Left, small as it is. He gains applause from free market advocates, who are weary of government interference in their lives. And he drives the muddled middle crazy.
What was going on?
After the second debate, on May 15, broadcast by Fox News, the Fox News website allowed viewers to vote for the nominee. These presumably were hard-core Fox News viewers. Over 40,000 voted. Romney got 29%. Paul got 25%. Giuliani got 19%.
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COMMITMENT
It is clear to all sides that Ron Paul is the most ideologically committed politician in the country. There has been nothing like him since Howard Buffett retired in the early 1950’s. Nobody remembers Howard Buffett today except hard-core libertarians and his son, Warren.
It is Ron Paul’s uniquely consistent voting record that gets him on liberal-left television talk shows like the Daily Show and Bill Maher’s show. The hosts are willing to give him time on camera because he opposed the Iraq war when nobody else did. He has also voted to shrink the state ever since he was elected in 1976. While they don’t share his view of domestic policy, they are respectful to find any politician who just will not toe the Party line.
For years, he had a narrow but highly committed audience. Now, after three decades, he is beginning to expand that audience. He speaks his mind, and his mind is informed by a consistent philosophy of limited government, meaning Constitutional government as understood in 1788. The kinds of voters who sit through an evening of bloviating politicos and then go to a web page to vote are the kinds of people he is attracting.
These mailing lists, if used to educate people to the principles of limited civil government and expanded self-government, will begin to affect the next generation of voters.
It does not take postage to mail e-letters. It does not take printers, ink, and paper.
He has been committed to a worldview. No other politician is to the same degree. By being committed at the cost of risking electoral defeat, Ron Paul can now attract people who are looking for their own areas of commitment.
If he gets this message to his subscribers, he can help them become active in a movement to shrink the strangling hand of tax-funded bureaucracy.
CONCLUSION
Ron Paul is convinced that self-government is the wave of the future. Empire isn’t. That was Gandhi’s message in 1915. It did not seem plausible back then. By 1947, it did.
It has taken until quite recently for India to move economically more toward self-government and away from Nehru’s Fabian socialism. Sadly, the U.S. economy seems to be moving back toward Nehru. The state keeps getting bigger in the visible affairs of this world. But a great decentralization is taking place: in education, on the Internet, and with technology generally. The wave of the future is not toward Fabianism and its legacy. Ron Paul’s campaign is proof of this

Are candidates, PACs, and other interest groups buying up search terms yet? How big of a role will search marketing play in the campaigns this time around?

This current administration continues to claim that the economy is worse than originally thought; they place the blame on the Bush Administration’s “Failed Policies” for eight years, and Obama supporters continue to blame the economy on what Obama “inherited” from the Bush Administration. For those of you in this camp, can you please address these facts? Please – no name calling, no ranting. I would like to see some citations and facts only.

In 1999, the New York Times reported that Fannie Mae was taking on more subprime loans, which it said may not pose too much of a problem in flush economic times (that was 1999, remember?) but it ” may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980’s.”

You can read the article here: http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/new_york_times_in_1999_fannie_mae_taking_on_more_subprime_loans_may_put_com/

In 2001, Bush, upon taking office, warned that the two entities were overleveraged; he said that “their failure could cause strong repurcussions in the financial markets”

WSJ Article here : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137220550562585.html
In 2003, George Bush proposed a new agency to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This was reported in the New York Times, here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print

”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”

You can read for yourselves about Dodd’s sweetheart deals from Countrywide mortgage. You can read for yourself about Barney Frank’s romantic involvement with a Fannie Mae Executive; you can read for yourself about the campiaign contributions made by these GSE’s to the Obama campaign –

One last link: http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/regarding_fannie_mae_and_freddie_mac_regulation_the_republicans_were_in_fav/

So my question is, How is this George W. Bush’s fault? What exactly were the “failed policies” that led to this mess, that Obama inherited?

Here’s another question – when you weigh the apparent blindess/stupidity/criminality of the Democrats in dealing with this crisis and think that “maybe they aren’t so stupid after all …” and pair that with the comment made by Rahm Emanuel, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html

Ask yourselves, “Where did this crisis come from? What is the Administration doing with it?” Incredible opportunity – perhaps no coincidence.
US Veteran and others – Yes, yes, I have heard all the talking points about Bush=Stupid and Bush=Daddys Boy – I specifically asked for citations and links that will show exactly how this is Bush’s fault. I provided my evidence – where is yours?

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I think this is 100% accurate, and would be delighted if he actually gave a speech like this. Unfortunately, he cannot, as, despite all the negative attention, he needs to stay in office and do his job, like he has been for the past 4 years. Power to the President!

PRESIDENT BUSH’S RESIGNATION SPEECH

Normally, I start these things out by saying “My Fellow Americans.” I’m not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don’t know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you’re really not fellow Americans any longer.

I’ll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: there’s been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office. The reason I’m quitting is simple. I’m fed up with you people. I’m fed up because you have no understanding of what’s really going on in the world. Or of what’s going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.

Let’s start local. You’ve been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that’s despite record numbers of homeowners including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we’re mentioning minorities, I’ll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton Administration. I’ve mentioned all those things before, but it doesn’t seem to have sunk in.

Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there’s increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.

We face real threats in the world. Don’t give me this “blood for oil” thing. If I was trading blood for oil I would’ve already seized Iraq ’s oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don’t give me this ‘Bush Lied People Died’ crap either. If I was the liar you morons take me for, I would’ve easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be ‘discovered.’ Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty. Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named ‘ Clinton ‘ established that policy. Bet you didn’t know that, did you?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to outspend and out-tech them. That’s not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don’t care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That’s be fine, as long as they weren’t also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you. And the bastards are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven’t gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you’re not. That’s because you’ve got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I’m disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of ‘Survivor’.

Instead, you’ve grown impatient. You’re incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat’s political campaign, well, damn it, you might just as well Fedex a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

In this day and age, it’s easy enough to find the truth. It’s all over the Internet. It just isn’t on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you’d be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol. I could say more about your expectations that the Government will always be there to bail you out, even if you’re too stupid to leave a city that’s below sea level and has a hurricane approaching. I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wa
not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I’ve come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.

So I quit. I’m going back to Crawford. I’ve got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I’m done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney’s quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there’re just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.

So that’s it. God bless what’s left of America . Some of you know what I mean.

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how much did Obama know and when did he know it?
i guess we’ll find out soon enough as the secret service is now looking into it…the proverbial light is now showing at the end of the tunnel..
if i might offer a word of advice to Obama…psst…hey, buddy,…the cover-up was what really got Nixon in trouble…nuff said?

i have to do a project for government class in 12th grade
and we have to make a poster for a campaign were we make a slogan up for our name and i cant think of one .. here are some examples
“you cant lose with cruz”
“make the right choice and vote for richard wright”

my name is toniann, is there any clever slogans you can come up with? because i cant think of any and i would really appreciate ther help.

I think the Ron Paul community should come together and create a Website showing the individual supporters so they can see for themselves how many we really are!

If they can log on and see real verified American people and their locations, it would shut down their little “attack” campaign.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/ron_paul_international_murdoch_media_smearing_of_ron_paul_begins.htm

The Rupert Murdoch media in the United States mostly pretends Ron Paul doesn’t exist, or simply doesn’t matter. As hard a myth that is to maintain, Murdoch is clearly backing Giuliani and Billary and no-one else for the White House in 2008.

It goes on to say:

A candidate for the US presidency is being buoyed by a massive online campaign that may be a fake grassroots movement organised by party staff.

How F-ing rediculous is that?

Is that all they have on this guy, speculations of a trumped up online community!

They have nothin on this guy!

His record speaks for itself!

There are 3 questions here asking the same exact question. Why are liberals trying to ban Unholy Alliance by David Horowitz?
Funny when you do a search a lot of Unholy Alliances come up but not one about banning it. I

The ad’s where children were saying things like ‘I helped murder families in Colombia’ ? They linked the wars of terrorism and drugs together. They were eventually pulled from air. I’m searching all over youtube but cannot find them…
Thanks Answerer but thats not the one I’m after – I’m looking for the Government ads.