Bill, Springfield, Oregon (Sent Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:38 PM)
Well, since the article was so short in details, here’s some of facts about Ron Paul: He has never voted to raise taxes. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget. He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership. He has never voted to raise congressional pay. He has never taken a government-paid junket. He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch. He voted against the Patriot Act. He voted against regulating the Internet. He voted against the Iraq war. He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year. Ron Paul is a representative of Congress from Texas’s 14th district. He is currently seeking the Republican party nomination for president.
See the “Ron Paul 2008″ site for a video of Ron Paul’s answers in the Republican debate.
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I think VodkaPundit summed up Ron Paul best (and he was 3 martinis deep, http://vodkapundit.com/archives/008939.php):
8:04 Paul is so quaint, quoting a George Washington doctrine that was outdated by the end of the 19th Century, much less the 20th. Also, did I hear correctly. Did Paul just blame 9/11 on the No Fly Zones? Did he freaking really?
8:05 Thank you Rudy, for punching Paul in the mouth. Or at least, unlike anybody else on that stage, saying something back to him.
You know, I thought we were going to war with words and ideas for the expansion of prediction markets, here. Now I am beginning to suspect that we are a bunch of Neville Chamberlains who dare not step out of the comfy academy and market towers into which we have cocooned ourselves.
I think the historical data shows that sometimes, schools and markets fail. And what then? Ron Paul to the rescue? Yikes!
“I thought we were going to war with words and ideas for the expansion of prediction markets, here.”
Yes, but it is also an objective to associate some news items with their event derivatives.
THE NEWS + THE DYNAMIC CHARTS
You’ll notice that the mainstream media and most other bloggers don’t do that.
True, I try to do the same thing on my blog. I guess I feel like the shepherd over there, and like a little lamb here.
In any case, I’d sell Paul if he wasn’t so cheap already.
“I feel like the shepherd over there, and like a little lamb here.”
Any blog author can do this “NEWS + CHARTS” association on Midas Oracle as long as it is brief and there is a wide variety of topics over the long term —so as not to bore our audience with one pet thing.