Ron Paul appears on CNN’s American Morning and points out the lies we are being told about economics and foreign policy.
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TrackbackAs the campaign unfolds, Mike Huckabee sounds less like a former governor, and more like a religious right activist with reporters following him around.
Ron Chusid directed my attention to Huckabee’s latest remarks, delivered to reporters on a campaign bus in Iowa, which delved into his church-state thoughts in more detail.
[W]hen he was pressed on whether he would continue certain practices he began in the Arkansas state house, such as a Christian Heritage Week or hanging the Ten Commandments in his office, Huckabee said, “[I] don’t know why I wouldn’t.” […]
As for the Ten Commandments in the Oval Office, “the Ten Commandments are in the Supreme Court,” Huckabee said, adding that he “wouldn’t hesitate” to hang them in the White House. “The Ten Commandments form the basis of most of our laws and therefore, you know if you look through them does anybody find anything there that would be all that objectionable? I don’t think most people would if they actually read them,” he said.
The problem here, though, is that the candidate who doesn’t know anything about foreign policy, national security, immigration policy, economic policy, or history also is confused about the Ten Commandments, which presumably should be his specialty.
First, the notion that the Ten Commandments “form the basis of most of our laws” is transparently ridiculous. I don’t know if Huckabee has looked at the Commandments lately, but just the opposite is true.
Comments rss Trackback“It isn’t easy standing alone as one of the last true small-government conservatives in today’s Republican Party,” said Tucker Carlson in introducing guest Ron Paul for an interview Wednesday on MSNBC.
“It’s sort of strange that they’d call me ‘eccentric’ and ’strange’ when I defend the Constitution,” responded Paul, “but I think that’s the point where we’ve gotten to, where defending the Constitution is a little bit different.”
“I think the party’s in shambles,” Paul continued. “I’m considered pretty conservative … and yet they think that I don’t fit in, and I’ve even been asked to leave the Republican Party. But they won’t admit that the foreign policy is flawed and that the war is the real issue. And if they don’t admit to that, I don’t see how they can come up with a candidate that’s going to be electable.”
This guy is awesome. If they’d put him in… they won’t… but if they did, I’d vote Republican in a second. Ron Paul talks about National ID card (suprisingly I’m not against that), the threat of Iran… or rather the lack of, how Isreal could wipe Iran off the face of the Earth if they wanted, etc. My favorite statement, in which he was talking about the National ID card and privacy:
“It’s all done in the name of safety, everybody’s frightened to death, and if you don’t sacrifice your liberties you can’t be safe. And yet the dangers exist, but they’re not quite bad enough — and they never should be bad enough — to sacrifice liberty. There’s no reason to sacrifice liberty in thinking that you’re going to be safer.” He then goes on to say how he’d trust an airline with his fingerprints but not the government. “The government is there to protect privacy, not to invade our privacy. Now our government, it does more to protect their secrecy and they violate our privacy. So there’s a big difference and a credit card company–if they violate our privacy, then you can use the government to enforce laws, because they promised me to keep my privacy confidential.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mb7aiM9K9Q
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