Ron Paul VS. Michael Moore on Larry King Live

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Originally Posted by hazek

I love RP but I thought this interview made him look like an old guy who likes to ramble too much.
The average Joe who doesn't have our knowledge about what are the real problems and what the solution is won't understand anything Ron is talking about, hell he won't even watch it.

I wish Ron would take a public speaking course or something because it's not too hard to learn how to focus your thoughts, breathe and speak in a understandable pace and tone with cohesive thoughts. And I know he is old and everything but still.

Interesting take. I thought Congressman Paul looked and sounded very good. His talking points often sound a bit different from other politicians since they are diametrically opposite and steeped in a bit of libertarian philosophy.

I did notice in this interview that there was a big hole in his argument that he needs to give some thought to: Just because people are not, as he says, "denied access" to emergency room care" does not help the person much if he is slapped with a $60,000 tab after the visit, nor does it help someone with early stage ovarian cancer to pay a visit to an emergency room. Dr. Paul needs to make a case for more comprehensive medical care in a libertarian society. Perhaps he might allude to AMA barriers to entry into the medical profession, for example. I would think that a two year community college education might be sufficient to become a practitioner who, for example, only sets broken bones. Etc. And that this might only cost $150 instead of $16,000 in a free market society. To his credit, he did talk about the free market and malpractice insurance.