Ron Paul to be on NPR Talk of The Nation @ 2PM EST - call in and post on blog

[Thrashertm]

Post your comments on the blog!!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2008/05/ron_paul.html#commentSection

[Joseph Hart]

link to broadcast???!!!

[chonald]

Perhaps you can get this with a radio.

I'm going to try.

[Joseph Hart]

http://www.wbur.org/listen/

[Thrashertm]

link to broadcast???!!!

The best way to listen is to find your local NPR affiliate -
http://www.npr.org/stations/

[Joseph Hart]

http://www.wbur.org/listen/
Join http://www.revolutionbroadcasting.com/ to chat about interview

[tonyr1988]

He's being a little rough on Reagan. :) "He talked about getting rid of the Dept of Education - he didn't do anything about it, but he talked about it."

Q: Will you be running for re-election in the Fall?
A: Well, I beat out my primary opponent (after the "other Republicans" dropped $300,000 on him) with 71% of the vote. The Democrats have decided to not run anybody this year. No, I won't be running in the Fall - I'll be walking into another 2 years in the House.

BEAUTIFUL!

[Bruno]

Still on?

[acptulsa]

"I'm convinced that if they'd held the [primary] election on the internet I'd have won."

[hillertexas]

Still on?

yes.

He's making jokes left and right. He is doing really well.

[acptulsa]

"I think the greatest humanitarian aid would be to stop bombing people."

[acptulsa]

"I think for every vote we've gotten in the Republican primary we've gotten two more votes from independents and Democrats."

[Bruno]

Just now listening. GREAT interview and format!

Paraphrasing below:

"We will have hundreds of delegates there. Many who said they were Romney supporters are now saying they can't support McCain and are now Paul supporters."

"We are going to have a huge rally next door to the convention"

"The GREATEST HUMANITARIAN AID WOULD BE TO STOP BOMBING PEOPLE"

[acptulsa]

"Foreign policy, whether you have Republicans or Democrats it never changes. Fiscal policy never changes..."

[Joseph Hart]

edit

[Bruno]

"Is Representative Paul going to run as an independent in the general election"

Answer : NO

[acptulsa]

"Well, no I'm not going to say [my supporters] should sit it out, but I'm not gonna tell them what to do."

[frasu]

great interview... i hope somebody got to record it :)

[josephadel_3]

drat.....I just missed it. Youtube?

[crazyfacedjenkins]

great interview

[LittleLightShining]

I missed it, but the website says audio will be available at 6pm EST.

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5

[acptulsa]

He made the point that Americans have always been very generous and that if the government wasn't stealing so much from us we'd be able to give more freely when disasters strike people around the world--and that this aid would be utilized "more efficiently".

[crazyfacedjenkins]

For those who have missed it, Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 6:00 p.m. ET
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5

[NightOwl]

He made the point that Americans have always been very generous and that if the government wasn't stealing so much from us we'd be able to give more freely when disasters strike people around the world--and that this aid would be utilized "more efficiently".

He might have cited the point he makes in The Revolution: A Manifesto that Americans last year gave three times as much money voluntarily to overseas causes than the entire U.S. government! That would only grow, the wealthier people got.

[Lucille]

He made the point that Americans have always been very generous and that if the government wasn't stealing so much from us we'd be able to give more freely when disasters strike people around the world--and that this aid would be utilized "more efficiently".

It's true. However, the socialists (Ds) would rather be taxed so the gubbmint can handle it. This is why they're so incredibly cheap when it comes to charitable giving, while traditional conservatives are the most giving of all.

The right kind of aid (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpost.php?p=1455513&postcount=3) makes all the difference, too.


"For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid (http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html)!"

The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS problem.

SPIEGEL: Mr. Shikwati, the G8 summit at Gleneagles is about to beef up the development aid for Africa...

Shikwati: ... for God's sake, please just stop.

SPIEGEL: Stop? The industrialized nations of the West want to eliminate hunger and poverty.

Shikwati: Such intentions have been damaging our continent for the past 40 years. If the industrial nations really want to help the Africans, they should finally terminate this awful aid. The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.

SPIEGEL: Do you have an explanation for this paradox?

Shikwati: Huge bureaucracies are financed (with the aid money), corruption and complacency are promoted, Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. In addition, development aid weakens the local markets everywhere and dampens the spirit of entrepreneurship that we so desperately need. As absurd as it may sound: Development aid is one of the reasons for Africa's problems. If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn't even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid.

[continues...]

Here are a few more libertarian-minded forms of private charities for those in need:

Heifer.org (http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.183217/)

Kiva.org (http://kiva.org/) (There are several other microloan organizations out there.)

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
--Confucius

[ryanmkeisling]

He's being a little rough on Reagan. :) "He talked about getting rid of the Dept of Education - he didn't do anything about it, but he talked about it."

Q: Will you be running for re-election in the Fall?
A: Well, I beat out my primary opponent (after the "other Republicans" dropped $300,000 on him) with 71% of the vote. The Democrats have decided to not run anybody this year. No, I won't be running in the Fall - I'll be walking into another 2 years in the House.

BEAUTIFUL!

I was glad to see him tough on Reagan finally. Ronald Reagan was neither a good president nor a decent man. He was, by definition, a terrorist. He ramped up the war on drugs hysterically. He was a friend to agri-business and has an abysmal enviormental record. He was a supporter of the apartheid regime in South Africa and he insisted on aiding the deposed Khmer Rouge and so prolonged a civil war. He also argued that it should take Cambodia's seat at the UN. He also welcomed Angola's Unita to the White House and described this murderous group as winning "a victory that electrifies the world and brings great sympathy and assistance from other nations to those struggling for freedom".

The arming and training of the ARENA in El Salvador leading to the slaughter of 80,000. The Libya bombing, Iran contra and the turmoil in Nicaragua and interestingly the fall guy, Olie North, now is a national hero and has or had a spot on Fox? Interestingly Reagan called the Contra's the "moral equivalent of our founding fathers." Thats the Reagan America and there is more. He is one of the most popular US presidents along with JFK, another terrorist by definition. This should be the best warning and proof to anyone with doubts, that the populace reality has for sure been manipulated for a long, long time. When the facts of a presidents term in office, which are so abysmal, fail to produce an unpopular result with the general population there is a suspicious and unaccountable disconnect.

They were trying to really get him on the right to choice and libertarian ideals but he handled it well. He raised his voice when Neal started his "but,but..."

[acptulsa]

I was glad to see him tough on Reagan finally.

Agreed. Guess you had to be there to truly understand. But, yes, you just described my formative years. Disgusting, wasn't it?

[Rhys]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90438900

i'm listenting. dunno about 6

[ryanmkeisling]

Agreed. Guess you had to be there to truly understand. But, yes, you just described my formative years. Disgusting, wasn't it?

When he died everybody celebrated what a great man he was? I was appalled and outraged. I felt we should have been celebrating the death of a true American style tyrant. It really made me crazy when earlier in the election there was a short Reagan fever and every so-called republican candidate paid lip service to it, including Dr. Paul. I never held it against him as he was just playing the game. What will it take for us to start to try to see clearly and think rationally about our government?

[Bruno]

When he died everybody celebrated what a great man he was? I was appalled and outraged. I felt we should have been celebrating the death of a true American style tyrant. It really made me crazy when earlier in the election there was a short Reagan fever and every so-called republican candidate paid lip service to it, including Dr. Paul. I never held it against him as he was just playing the game. What will it take for us to start to try to see clearly and think rationally about our government?

I personally wasn't a big Reagan fan because of his escalation of the Drug War from his first day in office. It never got any better for me from there.

Could he originally have had better intentions, which caused even constitutionalist Ron Paul to support him, but that he sold out because of the assertion below?

It seems Ronald Reagan Sr. didn't initially trust George Herbert Walker Bush, either. Oddly enough, with organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission becoming "hot topics" during the 1980 presidential primaries, candidates for the Republican nomination (save George Bush and John Anderson), clamored to prove they weren't associated with either entity. According to the History Channel, not only did Reagan repeatedly express a distrust of these organizations, but promised that CFR and Trilateral Commission member George Bush would not be offered a position in his administration. (This concern didn't extend to others, it seems, because on the day he won the New Hampshire primary, Reagan replaced his campaign manager with CFR member and future CIA Director William J. Casey).

During the Republican Convention, Reagan broke his promise -- and tradition. Making a late night dash from his hotel room to the convention floor, following televised speculation on a Ronald Reagan/Gerald Ford "co-presidency," he said: "I know that I am breaking with precedent to come here tonight and I assure you at this late hour I'm not going to give you my acceptance address. But in watching the television at the hotel and seeing the rumors that were going around and the gossip that was talking place here. It is true that a number of Republican leaders . . . . felt that a proper ticket would have included the former president of the United States, Gerald Ford, as second place on the ticket. . . . I then believed that because of all the talk and how something might be growing throughout the night that it was time for me to advance the schedule a little bit. . . . I have asked and I am recommending to this convention that tomorrow when the session reconvenes that George Bush be nominated for vice president."

Though Bush denies meeting Iranian officials in Paris to delay the release of America's 52 hostages, the Iran hostage situation was miraculously resolved the day Reagan was sworn in. http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/collections/denied/octsurprise.htm

Two years later, following the Reagan assassination attempt, NBC's John Chancellor and the Houston Post's Arthur Wiese and Margaret Downing reportedly stunned their respective audiences with news that Scott Hinckley, brother of Reagan's would-be assassin, was scheduled to dine with Vice President Bush's son Neil the night of the shooting. And though the March 31, 1981 Houston Post ran the headline, "Bush's Son Was To Dine With Suspect's Brother," the April 13 Newsweek sandwiched the story among oddball theories under a banner that read, "for conspiracy buffs only."

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/05/06.html

[Rhys]

he sounds like he's really connecting emotionally... something he never does

[acptulsa]

he sounds like he's really connecting emotionally... something he never does

Showed some humor, too. Loved that! Long past time!

[0zzy]

Women don't vote in that state, the guy said, trying to make Paul look stupid for state rights. But voting for a federal candidate is federal business. Gah, dumby.

Abortion issue butted heads, I dont and cannot understand how people can't even at least understand the other side of he issue. "cant be Pro-liberty while anti-choice" rofl rofl rofl. call it what it is, proabortion, at least.

anyways. kinda good interview, funny paul. "Well no, im sitting down." haha:)

[4RP08inKCMO]

I thought it was an excellent interview. I thought Ron Paul defended his stance on abortion really well and I don't even fully agree with him on it.

Interviewer: "It wasn't the federal government, it was the Supreme Court." What?

[NightOwl]

Interviewer: "It wasn't the federal government, it was the Supreme Court." What?

Yes, that was so dumb I was sure I hadn't heard him right. The guy was a decent interviewer, though; I'll give him that.

[MikeSmith]

good interview

[Bruno]

Article, excerpt from the book, and link to the audio:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90438900

[Omphfullas Zamboni]

I thought it was an excellent interview. I thought Ron Paul defended his stance on abortion really well and I don't even fully agree with him on it.


I wouldn't see it came off sounding especially great; particularly, the part where RP said that abortion was legal in the third trimester. The interviewer challenged him, and he sort of backed down or changed the subject.

Is it legal in the third trimester or not? Does it depend on whether or not the life of the mother is in danger?

[NightOwl]

I wouldn't see it came off sounding especially great; particularly, the part where RP said that abortion was legal in the third trimester. The interviewer challenged him, and he sort of backed down or changed the subject.

Is it legal in the third trimester or not? Does it depend on whether or not the life of the mother is in danger?

He was right but seemed unsure of himself. The companion case of Doe v. Bolton said that for the sake of the mother's health (a proviso that Dr. Paul rightly pointed out has been used to refer even to states of psychological uneasiness) abortions can be performed at any time.

[IPSecure]

Actually let him speak his mind...

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[SteveMartin]

DAMN IT. They got to him then.

[spacehabitats]

"How do yo think we libertarians should..."

I noticed that one of the call-in questioners used the "L" word again to describe Ron Paul.

Either this guy is such a Gung Ho Libertarian that he doesn't care about helping RP reach out to the masses, is too stupid to realize that being labeled "Libertarian" is a political liability, or he is a plant.

I say this with all due respect to our Libertarian Party compatriots, but one of the MSM's strategies to marginalize Dr. Paul by has been to ALWAYS use the "L" word when describing him.

But it is even more destructive when applied by one of his "friends".

[speciallyblend]

"How do yo think we libertarians should..."

I noticed that one of the call-in questioners used the "L" word again to describe Ron Paul.

Either this guy is such a Gung Ho Libertarian that he doesn't care about helping RP reach out to the masses, is too stupid to realize that being labeled "Libertarian" is a political liability, or he is a plant.

I say this with all due respect to our Libertarian Party compatriots, but one of the MSM's strategies to marginalize Dr. Paul by has been to ALWAYS use the "L" word when describing him.

But it is even more destructive when applied by one of his "friends".

actually the new DIRTY WORD IS REPUBLICAN, most outside the republican(nazi) party like the libertarian party,they just have been brainwashed by the republicrats. Change is coming and if the republican party doesn't understand this ,they can get the hell out of the way;)

[OhioMichael]

This is awesome and important.


Thank you Dr. Paul!!!!!!!!

[OptionsTrader]

He said at the end he is not running in the general election. I know what he means, but I still like to think there is a 0.5% chance McCain will self destruct by then and he mihgt just might be in the election on the ballot.