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Ron Paul in the New York Times - 7/22/2007 1:16:48 PM

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Whipping westward across Manhattan in a limousine sent by Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” Ron Paul, the 10-term Texas congressman and long-shot Republican presidential candidate, is being briefed. Paul has only the most tenuous familiarity with Comedy Central. He has never heard of “The Daily Show.” His press secretary, Jesse Benton, is trying to explain who its host, Jon Stewart, is. “He’s an affable gentleman,” Benton says, “and he’s very smart. What I’m getting from the pre-interview is, he’s sympathetic.”

Paul nods.

“GQ wants to profile you on Thursday,” Benton continues. “I think it’s worth doing.”

“GTU?” the candidate replies.

“GQ. It’s a men’s magazine.”

“Don’t know much about that,” Paul says.

Thin to the point of gauntness, polite to the point of daintiness, Ron Paul is a 71-year-old great-grandfather, a small-town doctor, a self-educated policy intellectual and a formidable stander on constitutional principle. In normal times, Paul might be — indeed, has been — the kind of person who is summoned onto cable television around April 15 to ventilate about whether the federal income tax violates the Constitution. But Paul has in recent weeks become a sensation in magazines he doesn’t read, on Web sites he has never visited and on television shows he has never watched.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/magazine/22Paul-t.html?pagewanted=all

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RE: Ron Paul in the New York Times - 7/22/2007 2:52:21 PM

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i like him more every time i read something else about him..........he may be 2008's lesser of the evils.....

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RE: Ron Paul in the New York Times - 7/22/2007 2:58:51 PM

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Ron Paul may not be the only elected official in Washington who has read the Constitution, but he is the only one who follows it. The MSM wants him to be excluded from future debates, because he ha won every debate he has been in, and his views are different from theirs. The MSM ignores him, but thanks to the internet his word are being heard.

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RE: Ron Paul in the New York Times - 7/22/2007 3:33:38 PM

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Good article!
You can see why Big Corporations wouldn't want Ron Paul in the White House. He believes in The People, not corporations.
He'll get my money and my vote.

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RE: Ron Paul in the New York Times - 7/22/2007 4:19:25 PM

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Prolly just what the doctor ordered: A candidate who is both out of touch and nor concerned with pop culture.

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There is something homespun about Paul, reminiscent of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” He communicates with his constituents through birthday cards, August barbecues and the cookbooks his wife puts together every election season, which mix photos of grandchildren, Gospel passages and neighbors’ recipes for Velveeta cheese fudge and Cherry Coke salad. He is listed in the phone book, and his constituents call him at home. But there is also something cosmopolitan and radical about him; his speeches can bring to mind the World Social Forum or the French international-affairs periodical Le Monde Diplomatique. Paul is surely the only congressman who would cite the assertion of the left-leaning Chennai-based daily The Hindu that “the world is being asked today, in reality, to side with the U.S. as it seeks to strengthen its economic hegemony.” The word “empire” crops up a lot in his speeches.

Damn...... can you imagine Ron Paul and a cabinet-level membership full of retired professors, your mail man, the local fire chief, a graveyard-shift supervisor, a beautician, a couple of farmers wearing bib-overalls, a dentist, maybe a few CPA's, a retired seamstress, etc.

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RE: Ron Paul in the New York Times - 7/22/2007 4:38:04 PM

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Good article!
You can see why Big Corporations wouldn't want Ron Paul in the White House. He believes in The People, not corporations.
He'll get my money and my vote.

(God help me...I'm in agreement with Popeye).

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