I saw that last night. I'm sort of mad at myself for watching it. I had accepted Palin as satisfactory and was all set to pull the lever for her (and unfortunately McCain) when watching him brought me back to to debates when I was pulling my hair out wondering why the hell people weren't listening to this man, the only one up there with any real grasp of the state we are in and offering actual real solutions.

I'm one of those he mentioned last night that is frustrated with the slow pace of the "revolution." I'll either end up writing in Paul and pulling out the rest of my hair or focus on my guns and vote for Palin with the hopes that she'll keep McCain from taking them away.

It would be nice to live in liberty once before I die.

I just don't get Pauls relative unpopularity with the general public. They fighting over two idiots, Obama and McCain, who both will continue the same path. Oh no, McCain will be four more Bush years! Well, how exactly would Obama not be four more Bush years? Both have their hands in my wallet, both think it's perfectly fine to regulate and deny in the name of "safety" both think we have some grand duty to go around the world telling everyone else how to behave. Both are evil horrible people.

For anyone paying any attention at all Paul was the only real option up there. The only one with answers who knew what the problems were.

McCain is status quo and anyone who can't see that Obamas "change" is also status quo is a duped fool. Both stand for big government, weak dollar, dependent populations, foreign interference and removal of liberty. Ones all white the others half white. Thats the only difference there is.

Go Paul.

I know an American girl who came to live in Australia because she was fed up and almost scared of the direction that America is taking. I happened to let slip the name Ron Paul and we began a 3 hour conversation about it. She apparently nearly cried when Ron Paul pulled out of the election.

How many more people will it take leaving the country before action is taken? Not much use having an America with no Americans living in it.

By the way, for the sake of any argument, Im Australian and I live in Australia. I have followed the Ron Paul legacy for quite some time now. Honestly, even if there is not a single scrap of space left on the ballot paper, sticky-tape some more down the bottom and write him in! I would!

[edit on 3/9/2008 by Kryties]

I believe people are inherently ignorant when it comes to politics. They prefer to live in denial, avoid hard choices and play lemming. No one cares -- let alone understands --- what the real issues are. Dr. Paul was loiterally being laughed at by the media and other candidates when he was talking about the impending economic meltdown. Bush, et al, you may recall were professing that the economy was AOK. Then, just like that, the economy is the big issue. Like they were all on top of it all the time.

I say write-in Ron Paul. To do otherwise is being as hypocritical as the rest of the hoarde. McCain isn't going to take aware our guns. Either is Obama. It simply isn't going to happen. We're allowing them to fractionalize us based upon specific personal issues. That prevents any sort of mass powerbase from developing. We're letting them beat us.

CSpan-2 Covered the entire event, which was surprising
CNN and MTV covered it a little too

I'm in Canada above all of you, i'm watching the country below me burn in flames and nobody seems to care.

You all think it's bad, but imagine seeing it from the outside, it's even worse.

Ron Paul is a hero, I honestly think he could bring us closer to world peace through non-interventionism.

But its the foreign policy causing the blowback right now.

Silly americans, you had your chance. Dr. Paul is the only choice.

I would say that this should be required viewing for all Americans, but it would be wrong to force opinions on people.


Then again, even the MSM knows that allowing people to think for themselves would be a disaster, so what would be the harm in forcibly getting this message out there.

I vote that we make Aug 20th (Ron Paul's birthday for those of you who don't know) another 4th of July.

It really truly should be required material for anyone who is registering to vote this November.


This is the main reason that I posted the videos, in hopes that people who may not have had an opportunity to watch the Independant convention yesterday or may not know much about Dr. Paul to get an opportunity to hear first hand why so many are behind this man.

If you feel his message is as important as I do please bump this thread. And if you dont know much about who Congressman Paul is or what he stands for, do yourself a favor and watch the videos!!

"...and how many houses John Mccain owns.

Who gives a s@#$....thats how many."

Classic, and couldn't have been worded better at that.

Even people IN the political process (which isn't nearly as many as it should be) typically will choose only a few things at best that they care about.

How many people are only voting on the war, or only voting for abortion rights, or only voting for more bucks from Washington? Tons, although the war has certainly increased the marginal voting majority.

Who gives a s@#$ is right.

I wish Ron paul was in power ,

the millions who died in Iraq due to Genocidal American occupation , would not have happened

Writing in a candidates name onto the ballot may very well be the only way to guarantee that the vote is counted fairly.


We all know by now that Diebold has admitted to mechanical failure with it's voting machines in the previous election. Failure that likely helped elect Bush.


I had made up my mind to stay home on election day, but the situation is serious enough that I will be writing Ron Paul's name on that ballot in November even if I have to bring my own pen and paper.

Do the videos work for anyone?

Why is it that anything that has a little bit of truth in it disappears from YouTube?

This has been happening a lot recently since they have been having all of these political conventions and such.

Is anyone else experiencing this or is it just me?

I am starting to think that they are actually cracking down on the censorship of the internet.

EDIT: If it is just me, these video's maybe censored at my work. hmmmm

[edit on 9/3/08 by housegroove23]