Entire Town Hall meeting on YouTube

I have been watching the Republican candidates for several weeks now and I noticed something during the NH Republican debate and was wondering if anyone else noticed. RP has been called "flakey" and "a nutjob" by many in the media and others in politics. But it seemed during the debate (and not until he got 10% in Iowa) that these other GOP candidates started using some of this "nut job"'s catch phrases. I haven't heard a single one of them (until the NH debate) use the word "constitution" or "welfare state".. which are things that RP talks about all the time. I thought it was so interesting that they all tried to make him look like he was crazy but yet they were picking up the buzz words that he uses. Seems to me that his 10% showing told his competitors that people like what he is saying and that, without making him look credible, they had to somehow have that same message... I found it infuriating. The biggest violator was also his closest competitor in the Iowa caucus results. Just me? Anyone else notice? I will be listening more closely in the coming days to see if they continue to hijack his message.

view this live in New Hampshire? Was it on a major station with an audience? Did this reach voters? Sorry that I'm not clear about it.

it really does.

I think we all did.

is a blessing in disguise this was Ron Paul at his best and the audience was overflowing.
Seeing Mrs. Paul, Barry Goldwater Jr this is something you would never have seen on FAUX or like ABC last night, they showed everybody's wife except Mrs. Paul this is the classiest woman in politics.

Great job campaign have more of these in thed future, Please !!!!

I am not sure why someone gets so critical like it is their job. Ron Paul is not God, that's right. So, he is not perfect and will not perform to perfection. So, get over it. I loved tonight. I could see that their were lights coming on for people. The man that asked the question about Israel was so surprised and enlightened at the answer. He had never heard this before. People need to hear that answer. They need to hear all of this. It isn't too complicated but tells the important things that people needed clarification on. Even if people didn't understand everything he was saying he communicated effectively that he knew what he was talking about. They saw that his positions are well thought out and not just thrown out there to be popular.
Now, someone please tell me how I can copy this onto a CD. I would love to pass this around or even get it shown on my local Cable station.

Healthnuttie for Ron Paul

What a great program! I agree that the audio needs to be better. He needs to be in a bigger auditorium type room, but there's always next time :) I wish everyone that was voting had the dedication to watch this whole program, they would all be Ron Paul voters.

Some thoughts:

Health care: C+
Main points seemed to be that
1) Costs going up due to government involvement (for example, I had a benign cyst removed from my face 2 years ago, and due to government regulations, the procedure was done in what appeared to be a fully staffed OR with 2 nurses (outpatient OR). 20 years ago, this would have been done by the plastic surgeon in his or her office with a single prep kit).
2) General devaluation of the dollar also driving up costs
3) Malpractice fears increasing the costs.
4) With technology, costs should fall, rather than increase
5) With the money we save in foreign entanglements, we have more to spend at home (but then were is the savings going to come from to get rid of the income tax?).

But you have Romney, who wound up covering a lot of people with insurance in Massachussetts, and the fact that in most developed countries, some form of generalized health insurance exists. It may bankrupt the U.S., but so far it does not seem to have bankrupted Canada or many of the European countries. Something other than "just leave people alone, let them keep more of their money" is required to have a saleable candidate, I believe.

Foreign Policy: B+/A-
On foreign policy Dr. Paul was fine. Talked about McCain's 100-year war, and moral, constitutional, and economic arguments against the war.

Monetary policy and the Fed: B-
On monetary policy and the fed, he was still not too clear. It's still not completely clear to me if, for example, we could run a balanced budget, if the Fed would continue to be bad for the country. Is it the lack of balanced budget, or is it the Fed, or is it both? If it's both, how is the presence of the Fed exacerbating an unbalanced budget (other than the fact that the Fed makes it easier to allow deficit spending). But is this really so? Can't we just borrow the money if we need it? He did make the point of Fed secrecy, and Fed decisions that may benefit interest groups. But all of this is done without a lot of clarity or specific examples.

I always thought that, if the government needs 100 billion dollars, they go out and sell 100 billion worth of Treasury bills.

So it's not clear to me how this process is different if (a) we're on the gold standard, or (b) we're off the gold standard with the Fed.

And I've been following Dr. Paul for the past 4 months. So either I'm not that smart, or Dr. Paul has not succeeded in explaining this well. (or both may be true).

The ugly truth is, that the true cause of the impending U.S. bankruptcy is not the defense budget, but entitlements, which will ultimately dwarf defense spending. Of course no one, even Dr. Paul, dares to talk too much about this, since it would be political suicide.

The point about the CPM underestimating inflation and the damage it does to people with fixed incomes was made.

Immigration: C+
Sort of rambling and confusing. Didn't mention no amnesty and abolition of illegal immigrant birthright citizenship. Said it was an economic issue, but without being very specific. Talked about Mexico going on the silver standard as being one thing that might help this, which I think just confused a lot of people.

General: C
He needs to stop verbalizing his pauses.
Eeehhh.. Eeehhh. Eeehhh.
This was a generally sympathetic audience, but for the most part, people just seemed to sit there somewhat confused.
There was very little (no) attempts to make emotional connections to the audience.

Sorry, I like and support Dr. Paul, but I don't worship him. He needs to work on his speeches and message to develop them into coherent policies that go beyond libertarian idealism. And he needs to go out and make an attempt to touch people emotionally more if he wants to win this primary and the following election.

What a fantastic program and an exceptional platform. Dr Paul should make town hall meetings a campaign focus. A town hall meeting in every primary state. Questions from the citizens explained in full measure. Bring the campaign to the people.

that was great

but I did like the program, especially Barry Goldwater, Jr. making his endorsement known :-)

Thanks for the link!

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I think Ron Paul did great.

I wonder why they did it in such a small room. It was overflowing but that didn't really take much to make happen.

Was this broadcast on a major network in New Hampshire? Who did this reach?

Great McCain & Obama question -

Volume's on max, still straining to hear RP. I'm at the 2nd question, can't understand what the guy said. Audio quality could use serious work.

There are some brilliant portions in this clip that could be turned into a real nice commercial if properly edited.

I have been sending to people.

Thanks

These links need to be spread. DailyPaul main page, MySpace, etc.

6 Minutes in, thanks SO much for posting this.

affirmation: President Paul 2008
There he is, folks - the people's President!
Dr. Paul is brillant with his knowledge - a continuous history lesson.
Pray for Dr. Paul; I love this guy:)

been looking for this all night.

Only 7 minutes in but so far so good!!

Is anyone else having problems with the volume on this. I have volume control at three different locations on my computer up to max and still can't really hear the broadcast. Maybe if I turn my air conditioner off, it might help, but the recorded volume is too low.

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