Ron Paul on NPR Talk of the Nation (right now)

[shadowhooch]

Talking about Patreus and Iraq

[EvilTwinkie]

Linky?

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

http://www.npr.org/audiohelp/progstream.html

top left, 24 hour program stream

But I'm not getting Ron Paul.

California station?

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5

Top left again, but no Ron Paul.

[Green Mountain Boy]

NHPR Live Stream: http://www.nhpr.org/nhprLIVE.asx

They're talking about Iraq and Patreus, but have not heard Ron Paul yet.

[Green Mountain Boy]

They're taking calls right now - call in, in support of Paul!

[nullvalu]

When did they have Paul on or mention him?

[Ridiculous]

They'll have a transcript available tomorrow or the next day. You can just do a ctl-f for paul.

Edit: sorry it looks like they charge for transcripts.

[ThePieSwindler]

can someone give a summary of how it went down?

[shadowhooch]

I think it may have been an unscheduled call-in. Ron Paul spoke for about 5 minutes on Patreus and Iraq (1:35pm CDT).

Nothing much new. Ron stuck to his standby lines.

"Bad diagnosis to begin with so we shouldn't continue with it"

He said Patreus wasn't "lying" because maybe he's convinced himself that continuing is best. But Ron didn't shower Patreus with respect like many other Republicans did during the hearings.

Ron addressed McCain's phrase of "we can't surrender" by saying McCain was using words to manipulate the situation.

Overall, nothing new from Ron that we haven't heard before. But it was fairly good exposure as it was made very clear that he was the one Republican Presidential candidate speaking out against the war.

Personally, I think Ron should focus more on decisions he would be making as President in January 2009. This whole Iraq war debate and what to do will largely be sorted out by the time the next President takes over. Ron Paul could be less divisive if he differentiated himself with how he would handle future actions on foreign policy (Iran, al queda, etc.).
Pounding on what we should do right now in Iraq may or may not help him -- because there IS no easy answers. My 2 cents.

[slantedview]

holy crap! i can't believe i missed this. i listen to talk of the nation almost every day!

good news is, npr puts all of their stuff online. look for it at 3:00 today. i'll post a link if nobody else does

[theseus51]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14350283

[jj111]

Can Ron Paul's audio be downloaded?

[LibertyEagle]

Personally, I think Ron should focus more on decisions he would be making as President in January 2009. This whole Iraq war debate and what to do will largely be sorted out by the time the next President takes over. Ron Paul could be less divisive if he differentiated himself with how he would handle future actions on foreign policy (Iran, al queda, etc.).
Pounding on what we should do right now in Iraq may or may not help him -- because there IS no easy answers. My 2 cents.

I agree that he needs to be talking about how HE would handle the situation and how HE thinks we should be providing national security, instead of just talking about what is wrong about what we are doing now. I'm not so much worried about the divisiveness, as I am that he needs to put forward HIS plan.

[SewrRatt]

Pounding on what we should do right now in Iraq may or may not help him -- because there IS no easy answers. My 2 cents.

The only reason there aren't any easy answers is because people have allowed to situation to be twisted around into something it's not. We're not engaged in a war anymore, it's an occupation of a foreign country and an attempt to install a puppet government. Al Qaeda wouldn't be there if we never went and they won't be there for long if we leave. The whole terrorist network would jump the shark if we weren't in the middle east at all because the only people in it that would continue hating us on principle are the same ones who aren't willing to blow themselves up or risk themselves in any way. Hey, that reminds me of some other people.

[slantedview]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14350283

For those who want to listen to this, you can scan forward to about 30:20 to hear Dr. Paul's appearance.