Rumor: Our Good Dr ran David Duke's Campaign a Few Years Back???

[Lois]

Is this true??

Someone just posted this on a discussion forum I belong too. I need to find out the facts. Please help!

[JosephTheLibertarian]

uh no

[Thom1776]

He also washed and ironed his sheets, for him.

[LibertyEagle]

Get real!!! NO.

You're going to see all kinds of things, because people want to discredit him. It does not make them true. The man has as impeccable a past as I have ever seen.

[Lois]

Well, I'm on Google right now trying to find out for sure. (Although I'd rather go back to bed right now - woke up at 2:00 and couldn't get back to sleep; now I'm stuck to my chair checking out Ron Paul :)

I'll have to ask her where exactly she got that information.

[james1906]

http://www.biography.com/images/database_images/duke_Patty.jpg

RP managed her campaign. The oversight is forgivable as Patty and David are cousins, identical cousins!

[Lord Xar]

hahahah..... what step are we on?? they "make stuff up" part??

they ignore you, they fight you, they.. what??

I just had a discussion with a woman who was calling Ron Paul a ANTI-SEMITE and a TRUTHER!!! This is actually what some people think, and this is the type of bullshit that the republicans do.. they insinuate lies and inuendos... I am republican, but I never thought this is how it really is..

oh, don't mind me.. I also know the liberals do it too.. phukkin... sneakthiefs.

[Lois]

Well, so far I found out that Daily Kos hates Ron Paul --

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/15/124912/740

This guy hates Daily Kos -

http://www.allamericanblogger.com/495/ron-paul-is-really-pissing-off-the-socialists/

and this guy's a liar --

http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/09/08/is-ron-paul-becoming-more-unpopular-by-the-second/#comments

[Lois]

"Ron Paul is President of the Internet"

I like that Slogan :)

http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/08/06/ron-paul-is-president-of-the-internet-not-the-usayet/

[inibo]

Is this true??

Someone just posted this on a discussion forum I belong too. I need to find out the facts. Please help!

Lois, perhaps you should make a post on that forum asking them to back up that assertion with a reference of some kind.

You might say something like "Please give me a reference to back up your claim or kindly STFU!"

Barring that you might post a link to that forum post so someone here could go ask that question.

[kylebrotherton]

[B]Well, I'm on Google right now trying to find out for sure. (Although I'd rather go back to bed right now - woke up at 2:00 and couldn't get back to sleep; now I'm stuck to my chair checking out Ron Paul :)

Glad I'm not the only one doing that lately.

[inibo]

Well, so far I found out that Daily Kos hates Ron Paul --

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/15/124912/740

This guy hates Daily Kos -

http://www.allamericanblogger.com/495/ron-paul-is-really-pissing-off-the-socialists/

and this guy's a liar --

http://www.product-reviews.net/2007/09/08/is-ron-paul-becoming-more-unpopular-by-the-second/#comments



Kewl, I was looking at a stupid digg post (http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Nazi_Traitor_David_Duke_Supports_Ron_Paul) pointing out that David Duke supports Ron Paul (9 diggs in 98 days :)) and a comment linked to this: http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=884 which I think is one of the most hopeful essays on Africa that I've seen in a long time.


My conception of home is Kisumu. I love my city with all of its warts. There's a lot of dancing there, a lot of people having fun, making merry. My home is not Africa. When I go home, I do not go to Africa, I go to Kenya.

I know nothing about African customs. I read quite a lot so I know about some Agikuyu customs and Luo ones, I also know quite a number of Gujarati customs. I know about the customs of my parents' people, the Bukusu. I do not know any African customs though. I rather admire the history of some communities and famous people down the ages. Cyrus the Great, Mekatilili, Koitalel Arap Samoei, and so on. I even have a vague fondness for Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson, although the adventures of Samouri Toure and Uthman don Fodio don't particularly tickle my fancy.

At university, I do not hang out with the Africans, or attend black parties. I am not a member of the Afro-Caribbean students' society. I have many friends from Nigeria, from the Ivory Coast and I have these sessions where I sit with these Burundians and contemplate the strumming of Congolese guitarists. I attend good parties, and I drink as much as I can sometimes.

I am not a brother, or your dog or your blood. When in my city I look to the lake with a spiritual fondness and I sometimes think wistfully of my ancestors and all who went before me, but make no mistake I do not belong to some African religion. Maybe I would if one existed, but it doesn't.

When I sit down to eat, I do not eat African food. I like my jollof rice, and my ugali just fine. I love roast maize, and I eat my mango kiswahili, i.e. with chilli on it. Love my tilapia fried that special way we do it in Kisumu. I read African literature. I love Youssou, Salif Keita, Baaba Mal, Ismael Lo and the gentle strumming of some of Lingala, but I cannot stand Nigerian music. I love Sufi music or anything inspired by it. A R Rehman is a genius. I do not think there is such a thing as African culture.

I feel no kinship towards Nigerians, or African-Americans. In the American Presidential election, my head supports Ron Paul and my heart supports Mike Gravel, if I had to select one of the miasma candidates I would go for John Edwards. Not Barack Obama. I think both Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice are disgraceful people; I would not join any groups cheering them on, or taking pride in their achievements.

I believe that Afrocentricity is fluffy nonsense, much like the myths of supreme Arian hordes. I did not celebrate when Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Prize. She is here on Friday, I may go to listen but I am afraid I will not gain much. Ngugi is a great writer so I think I will pass by his tent. The Nigerian elections filled me with just about as much shame as did the American ones. When the Zimbabwean government cracks down on its opponents, I feel terrible, but not any more than I do when it is the government of Pakistan.

You get it by now I hope. Africa is not a country. Africans are not a people. There is no such thing as African culture, or African football, or African food, or art or music or theatre and we certainly do not think alike. We are just like any other people. Independent of mind, quirky and conservative, quiet and loud, hedonistic, iconoclastic, lazy and hardworking, varied in our passions and our tastes. I do not believe in Africa, I am not proud to be African. I want to say I am an African, but not just yet.

Goodness gracious sakes alive I do loves me my intertubes.

[Lois]

I just did ask her where she got that information.

Thanks for the offer of help -- I'll let you know if I need some back-up over there.

[inibo]

I just did ask her where she got that information.

Did she give you an answer?

[JosephTheLibertarian]

Well, I'm on Google right now trying to find out for sure. (Although I'd rather go back to bed right now - woke up at 2:00 and couldn't get back to sleep; now I'm stuck to my chair checking out Ron Paul :)

I'll have to ask her where exactly she got that information.

from her brain

[stevedasbach]

To the best of my knowlege, Ron Paul has never run ANY campaigns for ANYBODY. He has a campaign manager to run his own campaigns. This charge is ridiculous.