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Who knows, the announcement may be that one of the candidates has offered him a cabinet position if elected.
As to the rest whom may scoff, I am reminded by Samuel Adams words:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
You guys realize Ron paul is a STAUNCH supporter of the 2nd amendment? Somehow I doubt he would ever favor Dumbo for that alone.
Obama and Paul are polar opposites. He's already labeled Obama's rhetoric a fraud. Yes, he called his talk about change a fraud. The only difference after this election will be which party has to deflect the negative and illogical arguments of the other side. Assuming Obama wins.
Who knows, the announcement may be that one of the candidates has offered him a cabinet position if elected.
As to the rest whom may scoff, I am reminded by Samuel Adams words:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
Paul and Obama are on the same side of the fence on the Iraq War.
And Democrats have a majority faction which is fighting hand in hand with Libertarians to fight against governmental wiretapping of American citizens with no judical oversight.
Here's what Paul and "most" Democrats agree on. And what the GOP is almost entirely in favor of.
Repeatedly funded -- at the White House's insistence -- the Iraq War without conditions;
Defeated -- at the White House's insistence -- Jim Webb's bill to increase the intervals between deployments for U.S. troops;
Defeated -- at the White House's insistence -- a bill to restore habeas corpus, which had been abolished by the Military Commissions Act, enacted before the 2006 election with substantial Democratic and virtually unanimous GOP support;
Enacted -- at the White House's insistence and with substantial Democratic and virtually unanimous Republican support-- the so-called Protect America Act, vesting the President with extreme new warrantless eavesdropping powers;
Overwhelmingly approved the Senate's Kyl-Lieberman Resolution, to declare parts of the Iranian Government a "terrorist organization," an extremely belligerent resolution modeled after those which made "regime change" the official U.S. Government position towards Iraq;
Deleted from a pending bill -- at the direction of the House Democratic leadership and at the insistence of the White House -- a provision merely to require Congressional approval before the Bush administration can attack Iran;
Overwhelmingly enacted -- at the White House's insistence, and with substantial Democratic and virtually unanimous GOP support -- the "FISA Amendments Act of 2008," to vest the President with broad new warrantless eavesdropping powers and to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, all but putting an end to any chance for a real investigation and judicial adjudication of the Bush administration's illegal NSA spying program;
Confirmed, with the indispensable support of two key Democratic Senators, Bush's nominee for Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, despite his support for radical Bush theories of executive power and his refusal to oppose torture;
Stood by passively and impotently while Bush officials flagrantly ignored their Subpoenas and refused to comply with their investigations.
This wretched state of affairs was succinctly summarized by this single cartoon this weekend by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Mike Luckovich, examining, with depressing accuracy, how American history would have been different had Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Jay Rockefeller been running the Congress in 1974 rather than in 2008.
Most of these un-American, un-Constitutional laws/actions passed with nearly 100% GOP support along with less than 50% Democratic support.
This is why we need better Democrats, not third parties which are doomed to failure in a two-party, majority rule form of Government. (as opposed to a consensus model, or a palimentary system)
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