View Full Version : Ron Paul is #19 in 'top 100 Global Thinkers'
sailingaway
11-28-2010, 06:37 PM
Part of me is pissed that he is only at 19. Part of me wonders why he is on at all -- with Gates and Buffet being #s 1 and 2... and Bernanke at #5.....
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/2010globalthinkers
Here's the link to his page: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/29/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,18
Thomas
11-28-2010, 06:39 PM
:o wow
libertybrewcity
11-28-2010, 07:16 PM
I guess women aren't that great at thinking. Only three in the top 25? They could have done better with the list. Besides Ron Paul, it's almost like a list of the most influential elites.
sailingaway
11-28-2010, 07:20 PM
I guess women aren't that great at thinking. Only three in the top 25? They could have done better with the list. Besides Ron Paul, it's almost like a list of the most influential elites.
Given their top 5, I'd have to agree they could do better with their list.
Tinnuhana
11-28-2010, 07:30 PM
From the article:
19. Ron Paul
for inspiring the thinking man's Tea Party.
Congressman | Washington
He may not have won a single primary, but nobody in the 2008 U.S. presidential race presaged Obama-era conservative politics quite as well as Ron Paul. With his stridently libertarian policy goals -- abolishing the Federal Reserve, withdrawing from the United Nations and NATO -- and his plain-spoken eccentricity, the obstetrician-turned-Texas-congressman often seemed more like a third-party candidate than a Republican. But in the past two years, Republican politics have lurched decidedly in Paul's direction. The amorphous but passionate Tea Party movement espouses a similar vision of a radically smaller federal state. If Sarah Palin's devoted followers are drawn by her personality, Paul's are drawn by his ideas: strict constitutionalism, doubts about U.S. interventionism abroad, and a conviction to reduce the size of government at any cost. Paul's chances in 2012 may be vanishingly small, but polls show half of Tea Partiers agreeing with his views. "We're bankrupting this country, and we … need a sea change," he told a cheering crowd of Tax Day protesters in April. With Tea Party fervor fueling Republican gains in Congress this year and helping bring Paul's son Rand to the Senate, the sea change might be finally hitting shore.
Reading list: Washington Rules, by Andrew Bacevich; American Raj, by Eric Margolis; Deception and Abuse at the Fed, by Robert Auerbach.
Best idea: End the Fed!
Worst idea: The Obama administration's decision to assassinate American citizens without due process.
China or India? Both.
Kindle or iPad? Both.
98Tokay
11-28-2010, 07:33 PM
Well, in any reasonable list of "Top Thinkers" Ron Paul would not be mentioned. There are too many other intellectuals, and I give bonus points for originality.
But given that the list focuses mostly on power-worship and status-whoring on the part of Foreign Policy magazine, I suppose Ron Paul being listed at 19 is better than any other scummy options. He is at least semi-libertarian. Beats the alternative.
Dripping Rain
11-28-2010, 07:37 PM
From the article:
19. Ron Paul
for inspiring the thinking man's Tea Party.
Congressman | Washington
He may not have won a single primary, but nobody in the 2008 U.S. presidential race presaged Obama-era conservative politics quite as well as Ron Paul. With his stridently libertarian policy goals -- abolishing the Federal Reserve, withdrawing from the United Nations and NATO -- and his plain-spoken eccentricity, the obstetrician-turned-Texas-congressman often seemed more like a third-party candidate than a Republican. But in the past two years, Republican politics have lurched decidedly in Paul's direction. The amorphous but passionate Tea Party movement espouses a similar vision of a radically smaller federal state. If Sarah Palin's devoted followers are drawn by her personality, Paul's are drawn by his ideas: strict constitutionalism, doubts about U.S. interventionism abroad, and a conviction to reduce the size of government at any cost. Paul's chances in 2012 may be vanishingly small, but polls show half of Tea Partiers agreeing with his views. "We're bankrupting this country, and we … need a sea change," he told a cheering crowd of Tax Day protesters in April. With Tea Party fervor fueling Republican gains in Congress this year and helping bring Paul's son Rand to the Senate, the sea change might be finally hitting shore.
Reading list: Washington Rules, by Andrew Bacevich; American Raj, by Eric Margolis; Deception and Abuse at the Fed, by Robert Auerbach.
Best idea: End the Fed!
Worst idea: The Obama administration's decision to assassinate American citizens without due process.
China or India? Both.
Kindle or iPad? Both.
they had to use eccentric, shockingly they didnt use "quixotic"
Tinnuhana
11-28-2010, 07:58 PM
If Sarah Palin's devoted followers are drawn by her personality, Paul's are drawn by his ideas: strict constitutionalism, doubts about U.S. interventionism abroad, and a conviction to reduce the size of government at any cost.
That's pretty good.
And I thought we were trying to get "rights" to the term "quixotic".:)
(Couldn't find the post.)
sailingaway
11-28-2010, 08:07 PM
they had to use eccentric, shockingly they didnt use "quixotic"
ah..... but his chances of winning in 2012 are 'vanishingly small!'....it's the same difference....
ctiger2
11-28-2010, 08:37 PM
Part of me is pissed that he is only at 19. Part of me wonders why he is on at all -- with Gates and Buffet being #s 1 and 2... and The Ben Bernank at #5.....
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/2010globalthinkers
Here's the link to his page: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/29/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,18
Fixed :D
Legend1104
11-28-2010, 09:33 PM
Any press is good press. Plus no other Republican possible presidential runner is in front of him. That makes him the best thinker among possible Rep. candidates.
wormyguy
11-28-2010, 10:33 PM
Reading list: Washington Rules, by Andrew Bacevich; American Raj, by Eric Margolis; Deception and Abuse at the Fed, by Robert Auerbach.
Best idea: End the Fed!
Worst idea: The Obama administration's decision to assassinate American citizens without due process.
China or India? Both.
Kindle or iPad? Both.
So was that a vapid mini-interview?
Vessol
11-28-2010, 10:44 PM
Plain-spoken eccentricity is an oxymoron.
RM918
11-28-2010, 11:07 PM
Best idea: End the Fed!
Worst idea: The Obama administration's decision to assassinate American citizens without due process.
China or India? Both.
Kindle or iPad? Both. [/I]
What, does this mean these foreign policy psychopaths think this is a fantastic idea?
wormyguy
11-28-2010, 11:15 PM
What, does this mean these foreign policy psychopaths think this is a fantastic idea?
No, they did a little vapid mini-interview with each honoree, and Ron Paul chose that as the worst idea of the last year.
Foreign Policy magazine is generally critical of US foreign policy.
farrar
11-28-2010, 11:28 PM
What, does this mean these foreign policy psychopaths think this is a fantastic idea?
Lol, I thought that to at first, but then I gave them the benefit of the doubt (assuming. NO one is that I sane) and I realized it was a mini interview. Didn't understand the china/ind a question though.
Sorry about my syntax, I hate typing on my iPad.
Knightskye
11-29-2010, 12:49 AM
What, does this mean these foreign policy psychopaths think this is a fantastic idea?
No, those are all Paul's answers.
Corto_Maltese
11-29-2010, 03:57 AM
Heh, funny that the swedish foreign minister is on the list. When i press him though, nr 95, I get nr 92 showing up instead.
GunnyFreedom
11-29-2010, 04:24 AM
Plain-spoken eccentricity is an oxymoron.
ya right? it's like Orwellian double-speak. +rep
Sweman
11-29-2010, 06:04 AM
And the picture makes for a great Wallpaper. Try it.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_images/101122_19_paul_99576260_625.jpg
Tinnuhana
11-29-2010, 07:19 AM
Maybe the China/India was a question about the emerging economies/countries or something. That would lead to the next question about recent tech advances. Or does Ron have an iPad now?
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