A Republican Moves Beyond Sloganeering!

Wow, this guy is currently the only Republican I can bear to listen to. In fact, this was downright worthy of discussion. I can't get over this. Blitzer tried to keep dumbing it down, but Paul stood his ground and refused to get caught up in the media's habit of glossing over things, making them only black and white.

This is an issue that must be debated, and Paul is a candidate worth listening to. The "terrorists" don't "hate our freedoms." They may be disgusted by our crass consumerism, loose morals and spiritual degradation, but they did not attack us just because I am free to rent a Chuck Norris movie or a woman is allowed to show her face. That's stupid and lazy. Paul notes the sanctions we imposed on Iraq as one example, but it's willful ignorance and media manipulation to think that decades of a foreign policy full of intervention, mostly motivated to secure financial benefits, will not result in that wonderful CIA term, blowback. Even now, in Iraq, we are creating radicals out of moderates. The children of innocent parents won't be sending Bush any thank you cards in exchange for our version of freedom.


I'm still hoping Bill Richardson receives more publicity. If you know absolutely nothing of Richardson, all you have to do to be impressed is read the prologue of his book, Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life, in which he details a meeting with Saddam Hussein to negotiote the release of US troops. The guy has balls.