i've not paid too much attention to ron paul

nor do i know much about him at all. i heard him on npr last week and, when talking about the current war in iraq, he DID make sense. however, i seemed to recall i had heard some rather disturbing things about him. he MAY (and i say may because i can't prove it) be racist. he MAY (and i say MAY because it can't be proved he actually WROTE the piece - BUT the piece WAS in his newsletter) have insulted a hero of mine, barbara jordan ("My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. " "What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise." )

anyway, to all you unsuspecting admirers of mr paul - all i'm saying is be wary.....

Angry White Man
by James Kirchick
The bigoted past of Ron Paul.

If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six months, Ron Paul has said something that appealed to you. Paul describes himself as a libertarian, but, since his presidential campaign took off earlier this year, the Republican congressman has attracted donations and plaudits from across the ideological spectrum. Antiwar conservatives, disaffected centrists, even young liberal activists have all flocked to Paul, hailing him as a throwback to an earlier age, when politicians were less mealy-mouthed and American government was more modest in its ambitions, both at home and abroad. In The New York Times Magazine, conservative writer Christopher Caldwell gushed that Paul is a "formidable stander on constitutional principle," while The Nation praised "his full-throated rejection of the imperial project in Iraq." Former TNR editor Andrew Sullivan endorsed Paul for the GOP nomination, and ABC's Jake Tapper described the candidate as "the one true straight-talker in this race." Even The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper of the elite bankers whom Paul detests, recently advised other Republican presidential contenders not to "dismiss the passion he's tapped."............
Post Date Tuesday, January 08, 2008