123tim
01-13-2012, 05:48 AM
Media coverage of Dr. Paul's campaign is getting interesting.
DeWayne Wickham column: GOP candidate Ron Paul says 'true racism' exists in nation's judicial system.
Ron Paul must have known the question was coming. For weeks, he had been dogged by charges that newsletters published in his name in the 1980s and 1990s contained racist content.
So he probably wasn't surprised when ABC News' George Stephanopoulos asked him during a televised debate three days before the New Hampshire primary how that could have happened without his knowledge. But no one on the stage with the Texas congressman — not the other contenders for the Republican Party's presidential nomination who bristle with contempt for their libertarian colleague or the panel of journalists wielding the questions — was ready for Paul's answer.
Dwelling on something he didn't write but has assumed responsibility for and apologized, Paul said, diverts attention away from the "true racism" in this nation's judicial system that disproportionately imprisons blacks for their involvement in drug crimes.
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http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120113/GPG0706/201130540/DeWayne-Wickham-column-GOP-candidate-Ron-Paul-says-true-racism-exists-nation-s-judicial-system
Who else would you want to vote for?
DeWayne Wickham column: GOP candidate Ron Paul says 'true racism' exists in nation's judicial system.
Ron Paul must have known the question was coming. For weeks, he had been dogged by charges that newsletters published in his name in the 1980s and 1990s contained racist content.
So he probably wasn't surprised when ABC News' George Stephanopoulos asked him during a televised debate three days before the New Hampshire primary how that could have happened without his knowledge. But no one on the stage with the Texas congressman — not the other contenders for the Republican Party's presidential nomination who bristle with contempt for their libertarian colleague or the panel of journalists wielding the questions — was ready for Paul's answer.
Dwelling on something he didn't write but has assumed responsibility for and apologized, Paul said, diverts attention away from the "true racism" in this nation's judicial system that disproportionately imprisons blacks for their involvement in drug crimes.
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http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120113/GPG0706/201130540/DeWayne-Wickham-column-GOP-candidate-Ron-Paul-says-true-racism-exists-nation-s-judicial-system
Who else would you want to vote for?