Paul/Bachmann townhall live stream on YAL site

[KenInMontiMN]

Starts in 45 minutes, 7 Central, 8 Eastern; live stream links:
http://www.yaliberty.org/events/2009-09-10/student-town-hall-w-ron-paul-and-michele-bachmann

If the links on that page don't work for you (they don't for me), try these:
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/106518

[Captain Bryan]

Don't think I'll be around.. I hope someone can capture it.

[torchbearer]

what? oh man, I thought tonight was going to be boring!
It's friday night- and I'd rather spend it listening to Ron Paul than clubbing with the guys.
We are a strange breed.

[Captain Bryan]

what? oh man, I thought tonight was going to be boring!
It's friday night- and I'd rather spend it listening to Ron Paul than clubbing with the guys.
We are a strange breed.
Indeed we are.:D

[torchbearer]

I wish they would have had something like this for the Loyola lecture Ron gave, that would have been epic.
Maybe I should email Doctor Walter Block about having another lecture with Ron Paul, and this time include Tom Woods. Set it up for internet stream. It would be epic.
Then we could coordinate a moneybomb on the same day. parties all around.

[torchbearer]

it is on... great entertainment tonight. ron paul, live.

[torchbearer]

windows media player link:
mms://wmv.uvs.umn.edu/paul-bachman/video

[Captain Bryan]

Lol, look at the fool with the Obama sign.

[ClayTrainor]

Did Ron Paul already speak, or is he about to?

[torchbearer]

Lol, look at the fool with the Obama sign.

they must have rallied some people to pretend to be doctors at another "town hall". their reputation precedes them.

[torchbearer]

Did Ron Paul already speak, or is he about to?

its hasn't started yet, the camera's just got rollin'

[ClayTrainor]

its hasn't started yet, the camera's just got rollin'

Awesome!

[Captain Bryan]

This video is great!

[torchbearer]

the opening video is badass.

[torchbearer]

Von Mises even mentioned.

[NYgs23]

Gosh, I myself can't stand "inspirational" videos like this even when I agree with everything they say! Why is that? Too much time in college I guess.

[torchbearer]

whoever makes the YAL videos kicks major fucking ass.

[reagle]

wow that was great

[ClayTrainor]

whoever makes the YAL videos kicks major fucking ass.

No kidding. That was a very impressive intro.

[torchbearer]

she looks familiar.

[MRoCkEd]

This is awesome

[Pete]

Y'know, we complain about Democrat congresscritters handpicking their audiences for townhall meetings, and here we have more of the same. I'm a little disappointed.

I'd love to see RP answering liberals' 'tough' questions.

[torchbearer]

Y'know, we complain about Democrat congresscritters handpicking their audiences for townhall meetings, and here we have more of the same. I'm a little disappointed.

I'd love to see RP answering liberals' 'tough' questions.

I'm glad obama bots are there. they won't leave there the same.

[Captain Bryan]

she looks familiar.
She posts here.
Mstebbens, is her username I think.

[Pete]

I'm glad obama bots are there. they won't leave there the same.

Are the bots there? If so, cool!

[MRoCkEd]

Y'know, we complain about Democrat congresscritters handpicking their audiences for townhall meetings, and here we have more of the same. I'm a little disappointed.

I'd love to see RP answering liberals' 'tough' questions.
This was open to the public. There are liberals there - saw a few obama signs.

[NYgs23]

I dunno about all this Bachmann love. I know it's her town hall and all but...

[ClayTrainor]

Wow... please stop yelling Michelle...

[torchbearer]

I dunno about all this Bachmann love. I know it's her town hall and all but...

if she wants to jump on our parade. I'm ok with that... she is seeing the benefits of promoting liberty. that is cool with me as long as she votes her talk.

[NYgs23]

if she wants to jump on our parade. I'm ok with that... she is seeing the benefits of promoting liberty. that is cool with me as long as she votes her talk.

I'd like to see her take an open non-interventionist foreign policy stance though. That appears to be the weakest link on the right and also certain libertarians.

[Pete]

I'd like to see her take an open non-interventionist foreign policy stance though. That appears to be the weakest link on the right and also certain libertarians.

I agree, that is her test.

She has a blog on Townhall, pretty much on the mark with her articles, but she avoids the war issue:

http://michelebachmann.townhall.com/blog/page1

[Captain Bryan]

I'd like to see her take an open non-interventionist foreign policy stance though. That appears to be the weakest link on the right and also certain libertarians.
She could come around..

[extrmmxer]

That's right she'll come around. We need more like her. The more she learns the more she'll be Ron Paul like. Everyone must start off for Liberty somewhere.

[rawful]

She just criticized war spending.

[roho76]

She just criticized war spending.

I seen that.

[Pete]

She just criticized war spending.

A toe in the water! :cool:

[Pete]

Oh, crap, I have to go. Can't wait to see the rest!

[Ninja Homer]

I don't understand all the Bachmann hate here. Yes, she was pretty neocon, but she's kept an open mind and has very quickly come to Ron Paul on most positions. She seems to still be learning, but I think she understands most of it now.

Look at it this way... there's 2 ways to get Ron Paul Republicans into office. The first is to wait for an election, spend millions in campaigning, spend hundreds of thousands of hours in volunteer grassroots campaigning, and hopefully they'll get elected. The second way is to find somebody who sees the problems and has an open mind to learn the real solutions to the problems who is already in office. The second way costs almost nothing. Politicians who convert to Ron Paul Republicans need to be supported so that other politicians see that they can change their ways and still keep their seats.

[MRoCkEd]

Well if Bachman is a warmonger she must be hating Ron Paul's speech!

[torchbearer]

I don't understand all the Bachmann hate here. Yes, she was pretty neocon, but she's kept an open mind and has very quickly come to Ron Paul on most positions. She seems to still be learning, but I think she understands most of it now.

Look at it this way... there's 2 ways to get Ron Paul Republicans into office. The first is to wait for an election, spend millions in campaigning, spend hundreds of thousands of hours in volunteer grassroots campaigning, and hopefully they'll get elected. The second way is to find somebody who sees the problems and has an open mind to learn the real solutions to the problems who is already in office. The second way costs almost nothing. Politicians who convert to Ron Paul Republicans need to be supported so that other politicians see that they can change their ways and still keep their seats.

yup. I agree. but we will always be vigilant for frauds. but, we must accept redepemption.

[torchbearer]

we can change the nature of this country.

[morran]

Will there be questions from the audience?

[rawful]

LOL socialism question.

[rawful]

Will there be questions from the audience?

They are answering them now.

[Captain Bryan]

LOL socialism question.
Ron just hands the mic to Michelle, hahaha. That was great.

[rawful]

Obamabots making noise over healthcare.

[Ninja Homer]

This is fantastic! Thanks OP for the links. Hopefully this will be up somewhere for download later on.

[rawful]

Ron Paul 2012!

[lx43]

did anyone notice michelle say that certain people (like those with disability) deserve healthcare paid for by the govt?

[Captain Bryan]

Ron Paul 2012!

I was windowed out, what did he do when they asked him?

[torchbearer]

I was windowed out, what did he do when they asked him?

just sat down the mic. no response.

[MRoCkEd]

I was windowed out, what did he do when they asked him?
He put the mic down and left lol

[Captain Bryan]

Haha, funny.:)

[rawful]

I was windowed out, what did he do when they asked him?

He put the mic down and stood up and waved his hands like "I'm not answering that". :D That ended it.

[KenInMontiMN]

She posts here.
Mstebbens, is her username I think.

Yes, that was our own Scribbler de Stebbing. Good work, Marianne!

Dr. Paul is looking tired. He's not a young man anymore, the 2012 question is a very nice tribute but the message he's pushing is for each of us to be that change we want to see, he can't carry the standard for another 35 years. But I suspect he'll try and do so for as long as he can.

And hear, hear! for Jonathan Kovaciny for the special thanks he got from Ron for all the hard work collecting petition sigs, and to Jeff Frazee & YAL for organizing a great event. I was a little worried the place would get completely overrun with flaming health care socialists and axe-wielding GLBT activists in leather masks looking for Bachmann's head on a platter.

[ronpaulhawaii]

yup. I agree. but we will always be vigilant for frauds. but, we must accept redemption.

+1

[Michael Landon]

Youtube?

- ML

[emazur]

couple clips about socialism (w/ Ron Paul facepalm):
YouTube - Ron Paul: in a libertarian society, socialists could voluntarily live in their own communities (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhl3IYkle9s)
YouTube - Ron Paul facepalm! Asked about Europe's 'great' socialism (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTSjkE2AX8A)
partial mp3 recording (35 min. sorry, I left the Fox News radio player on during the beginning but it's hardly noticeable):
http://depositfiles.com/files/io5kuvi8x

[WokeUpDazed]

The event was amazing, and I took a friend with me that had never been to a rally or town hall, a bit differently organized than some in the past but overall very good.

Now, props to Torchbearer, vigilance must never be forgotten when dealing with people in times like these.

Also, it was very free to the public, and kind of a last minute thing for us to go, parking was pretty easy, and also props to 100.3 in the area for advertising that this was going on.

Decent turn out, kinda funny that it was a student town hall, in a way it was because we are all students of liberty.

[georgiaboy]

all kinds of win for this event.

[PlzPeopleWakeUp]

I love Big Brother.

[PlzPeopleWakeUp]

I love Big Brother.

[Lovecraftian4Paul]

I returned from this a little while ago. It was a pleasant event, RP was a very eloquent speaker, as usual. Bachmann did okay for her part, and played it safe by backing up Ron Paul on auditing the fed without skirting more controversial issues.

Fortunately and unfortunately, I sat by one of the groups of pro-Obama healthcare people. Their main beef seemed to be with Bachmann. Myself and a couple other people in my party had some mildly heated discussions with them. It seemed to get through to them that we weren't there as Republican hacks. I pressed a few of them about healthcare, and every one even admitted they would prefer it be done at the state level, not federal control. I saw some of them applauding later on as Ron Paul took on monetary issues and--the big issue--wars and foreign aggression.

Ron Paul's talk about hitting Iran and interventionism was a stroke of genius. It softened some of the liberals in the audience who came to protest about healthcare (which wasn't even the main subject), and it exposed the Bachmann people and mainstream Republicans to his position. Bravo.

[ClayTrainor]

It happened. I saw it with my own eyes. :D

Did anyone approach them for a friendly debate?

[Liberty Rebellion]

YAL TH(town hall) FTW!

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Bachman is a very dangerous snake, much more so than Palin.

[Peace&Freedom]

This is a great marker event in the evolution of Mstebbens/Bachmann fully towards the path of liberty. Paul is the standard, the touchstone, through which we can measure the progress of others. I think Bachmann is taking a cautionary politican's approach to war/nonintervention issues, picking her battles until she feels more comfortable personally and with the poll numbers. Give her a show of support, as the one who votes more closely with Paul than anybody else in Congress at this time.

[haaaylee]

you tube?

[NYgs23]

So is there any recording of this?

[KenInMontiMN]

The Mpls Star-Trib coverage after the fact:
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/61590702.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUoaEaD _ec7PaP3iUiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr

The St. Paul PioneerPress feature: http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_13423772?nclick_check=1

[specsaregood]

The Mpls Star-Trib coverage after the fact:
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/61590702.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUoaEaD _ec7PaP3iUiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr

The St. Paul PioneerPress feature: http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_13423772?nclick_check=1

From the 2nd one:


"I've never seen more hypocrisy in the same room before," said Andy Pederson, another U student. "They talk about the deficit as if they aren't part of the problem."
Congratulations Andy Pederson! You were just immortalized on the internet as having no clue as to what you are talking about.