A Slew of News Over the Weekend
Submitted by Michael Nystrom on Mon, 06/18/2007 - 11:08Dear Friends - Ron Paul was very active over the weekend, so in case you missed it, here is a recap of some of what went on. First, thanks to all of us and all of our support, the MSM is having a much harder time ignoring Ron Paul! Let's keep it up!
Even Fox News Can't Ignore Ron Paul's Impact
Thanks to Lew Rockwell & Antiwar.com
Sunday SF Chronicle: 'Ron Paul, who?' no longer applies
(This is a reprint of the Washington Post article from a few days ago - but seeing that it is the SF Chronicle, it may be better to forward to some of your liberal friends)
Pittsburgh Tribune Review: Presidential candidate Ron Paul drawing diverse crowds
"Young and old, hippie types and business types, Republicans and Democrats and independents, anarchists, people who hate the IRS and the Federal Reserve," said Ron Paul..."Here I am, defending medical marijuana, and I've never even seen anyone smoke marijuana."
This is a great article is a great introduction to Paul, for those who don't know anything about him.
What are the diverse crowds that the article is talking about? See below:
Check out this great video of Dr. Paul in Kansas City
And listen to his Interview with Scott Parks KMBZ
Thanks to Jane Aitken.
Thank you to all blog posters! The tide is rising! Please write letters to your own local papers and ask them to give coverage to Dr. Paul. The bottom line is to make so much noise that the MSM will no longer be able to ignore us!
Other ideas welcome.
My name is Rudy, and I'm a politician.
The forward-looking message below is brought to you by Bob McCarty Writesâ„¢:
It is 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 1, 2009, and a hoard of well-known politicians -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- sit quietly in a circle of metal folding chairs. The location: A dusty and windowless room in the basement of an abandoned VFW hall outside Washington, D.C. The voice of an unseen moderator, piped in through a single, static-filled audio speaker mounted in the room's drop-tile ceiling, breaks the silence.
"Senator Clinton, gentlemen, welcome to the first-ever meeting of Politicians Anonymousâ„¢. Each of you are here today because you have a problem -- that is, you are career politicians. In order to overcome your additions to political power, influence and, worst of all, money, you've been ordered by the people of this great country to participate in this 12-step program before you'll ever again be allowed to run for public office."
Hearing the meeting attendees begin to grumble, he paused for a moment before continuing.
"I trust each of you has had an opportunity to review how this meeting will be conducted; therefore, we'll begin with introductions."
Hearing that, one candidate stands quickly -- apparently believing he deserves to be first -- and utters the statement, "My name is Rudy Giuliani, and I'm a politician."
He's followed by a parade of others sitting to his left. They include Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, former senator John Edwards of North Carolina and a half-dozen Democrat Party "also-rans" from the 2008 presidential campaign, each of whom struggles to say the words first spoken by the former New York City mayor. Conspicuously absent from the meeting is Al Gore, apparently too ashamed to show his face outside of his energy-guzzling Tennessee estate.
The moderator interrupts the meeting to note the former vice president's absence, then asks the assembled politicians to continue.
First up among the remaining GOP politicians is former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. He utters the admission that he, too, is a politician, and is followed in order by Senators John McCain of Arizona and Sam Brownback of Kansas. Representatives Duncan Hunter of California and Tom Tancredo of Colorado take their turns and, finally, former governors Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin introduce themselves and make their shameful admissions.
Once again, the moderator interrupts the meeting to note the not-unexpected absences of two others who had failed in their 2008 White House bids: former senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of Georgia.
Before the moderator can begin the next segment of the meeting, Giuliani stands up and walks to the center of the circle of chairs. The other candidates watch the New Yorker carefully as he looks up toward the speaker in the ceiling and begins to speak.
"Exactly who are you, and what qualifies you to serve as moderator over this group of distinguished Americans?" he asks in true former-prosecutor fashion.
From the speaker came a brief reply which spoke volumes to the politicians in the room:
"I think everyone knows me. I'm Ron Paul, president of the United States."