Bryan
09-26-2009, 12:39 PM
From the Huffington Post:
Posted: September 26, 2009 01:36 PM
J. Bradley Jansen
Director of the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights
For Liberty, a documentary of the Ron Paul grassroots movement, deserves attention. Ron Paul enthusiasts will recognize familiar names and faces and relive unforgettable moments, and students of elections, campaign managers and political activists of all persuasions should see it. Everyone concerned with the direction of the country and the breakdown of political discourse would find something moving. The seeds of this grassroots movement are still growing.
One Amazon customer review lauds, "this movie simply and eloquently captured the passions of an unlikely coalition of people from all across the political spectrum who quickly came together in response to a uniquely American message, and who unexpectedly, enthusiastically and sometimes haphazardly ended up immersing themselves entirely in a political campaign." Why then did the campaign do so poorly? "The grassroots felt [the official campaign staff] were at best incompetent" protested Adam de Angeli of the Campaign for Liberty, the remnant of the official presidential campaign on which he worked. He then doth protested too much defending the failures of the official campaign in a documentary about the grassroots. Incoherently, de Angeli criticizes the documentary for avoiding examining mistakes while still harboring delusions that the official Ron Paul presidential campaign brought "hundreds" of Republican National Convention delegates in its fight for the nomination (Green Papers shows Ron Paul winning only 20 of 2,380 delegates with 15 final votes).
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Posted: September 26, 2009 01:36 PM
J. Bradley Jansen
Director of the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights
For Liberty, a documentary of the Ron Paul grassroots movement, deserves attention. Ron Paul enthusiasts will recognize familiar names and faces and relive unforgettable moments, and students of elections, campaign managers and political activists of all persuasions should see it. Everyone concerned with the direction of the country and the breakdown of political discourse would find something moving. The seeds of this grassroots movement are still growing.
One Amazon customer review lauds, "this movie simply and eloquently captured the passions of an unlikely coalition of people from all across the political spectrum who quickly came together in response to a uniquely American message, and who unexpectedly, enthusiastically and sometimes haphazardly ended up immersing themselves entirely in a political campaign." Why then did the campaign do so poorly? "The grassroots felt [the official campaign staff] were at best incompetent" protested Adam de Angeli of the Campaign for Liberty, the remnant of the official presidential campaign on which he worked. He then doth protested too much defending the failures of the official campaign in a documentary about the grassroots. Incoherently, de Angeli criticizes the documentary for avoiding examining mistakes while still harboring delusions that the official Ron Paul presidential campaign brought "hundreds" of Republican National Convention delegates in its fight for the nomination (Green Papers shows Ron Paul winning only 20 of 2,380 delegates with 15 final votes).
Read more at and digg here:
http://digg.com/d315eji