A brief Annalysis of Ron's question to McCain

I've said it before, it doesn't matter what the question was. All that had to connect was "This guy asked a question, Mccain is squirming and can't answer it".
When you start naming other people to do your job, I think it's a dead give away that you have no clue what you are talking about. just my opinion.
 
shadowhooch said:
No offense to Ron, but it was a dumb question. I have no idea what he was talking about and neither does the American people.

Ron Paul should have hammered home how they talk about fiscal responsibility while promising a worldwide and increased presence overseas.
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The candidates were informed in advance about this segment of the debate. That Paul used this question rather than another, and that he directed it to McCain, may have been a campaign strategy. He has no real opportunity other than during a debate to ask pointed, important questions, to highlight McWar's ignorance on key issues. I'm betting the campaign will be storing McWar's non-response for future use.
 
ErikBlack said:
It was a genius move. If he had asked any other question it would only have presented an opportunity for McCain to launch into one of his rehearsed speeches on the issue, lulling the audience into a trance with broad generalizations and key phrases like "straight talk" and "bridges to nowhere". Instead he left McCain stammering and stuttering and looking like a 1st class ass.
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Agreed, the campaign must have calculated that it'd be better to make McCain look like an idiot than to let him launch into his tired-out tough maverick guy routine that everyone eats up.
 
Sey.Naci said:
I'm betting the campaign will be storing McWar's non-response for future use.
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For future use? Like one of the highly covered press releases the campaign always does?:rolleyes:

Sorry for being negative. I'm just keep waiting and waiting and waiting for Ron Paul to REALLY take these guys to task and he never quite gets over the hump to REALLY connect with the average viewer.

It's guess it is up to my canvassing efforts to convince the voters. Onward!
 
I agree that too many people seem apathetic right now, but as you see what the MSM is doing to Ron Paul right now, everything is so hush-hush. Knowing how brilliant Dr. Paul is, I had to find what he meant by "working groups on financial markets," and ended up finding out that those words should be capitalized and that it is just one group and it has been hush-hush kind of intentionally... I had to find out about it in a foreign newspaper b/c of a link someone put on this forum! That's like Vicente Fox getting on Larry King and talking about the amero being a possibility; why do foreigners seem to know more than we do and on top of it, it seems like you have to be on a mission to find out b/c you are certainly not going to hear about it through MSM.

Soccrmastr said:
No, the problem was the question is too smart, and the people are too dumb.
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Okay...now I'm all worked up. I simply wish Ron Paul would point out plain as day how all of these Republican candidates are being hypocrites right before our eyes.

They all say the want to stop the rediculous spending that the "past Republicans" have caved in to. They ALL say it...over and over again. How they are different and will get spending under control.

Then they all say they want to increase the military, keep a worldwide presence, stay in Iraq as long as necessary, and increase security.

HOW IS THAT CUTTING SPENDING!?!?!?!?!?!!?

Ron Paul, the nice guy he is, alludes to the fact that HE will stop the spending overseas. But he needs to take these guys to the mat and say that THEY WON'T! THEY WILL CONTINUE SPENDING US TO OBLIVION AS EVIDENCED BY THEIR ANSWERS!:mad:

Grrr...sorry. Off to bed to sleep this off.:)
 
McCain is by far the dumbest candidate, therefore the most dangerous. He must have learned it all from Bush.
 
like omg. i watched the question and response again and it got a million and a half times better. mccain didnt answer shit lolllllllllll. way to go ron. and smarten up america if you couldnt understand it!
 
Funny how some Ron Paul "supporters" are quick to label the average American sheep/sheeple/etc... But then we have a few here who were just as clueless as McCain and complaining that the "general public" will have no idea what that whole question was about.

As someone posted before, it wasn't a dumb question. It was a smart question that the ignorant just can't understand. Dr. Paul made McCain look like a complete idiot and retreat like a coward to his pre-rehearsed checklist of the Phil-Gramms, blah blah blah, etc., which the audience already suffered through in an earlier question.

If the whole segment went over your head, it's time to visit www.ronpaullibrary.org
 
Scorecard...

My score:

Giving the financially informed a clear picture of McCain's incompetence: +1

Leaving some of the audience saying, "Huh?" : +0

Doing a wrestling move on McCain that put a look on his face like the pig from the Simpson's Movie: Priceless! :D

That's all that it was, really, a fairly deft move to make McCain look dumb to most people and utterly clueless to those who know what's going on.

That will buy Ron cred in some circles.

Mike D.
 
It's HILARIOUS that the first thing he said was basically "I support sunshine."

The brains of politicians have basically been re-wired into machines that process anything someone else says, sifting through it for something popular or neutral and then saying they support it.

We all fucking like sunshine, asshole. I guess McCain is one of those people who "enjoys fine dining."
 
I think he was talking to Wall Street and the investors more than just the general public. Honestly, the bonds traders, stock traders will know what he meant. They'll pick up on what he said.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Ron's question was a question about whether Federal Reserve Board meetings should be open to the public or whether at least the minutes of Fed meetings should be available to the public. If McCain became president, we could hold him to this promise. Or if he refused, Mr. Straight Talk would be saying he would keep the proceedings secret.

McCain didn't know jack about what Ron asked. Unfortunately, nobody in the media called McCain out about this. Surely not knowing this most elementary information about the Fed is a gaffe much worse than the one Bush made in 2000, which I think was not knowing who the President of Pakistan was.
 
trout007 said:
Trust me. The people with money in the markets know what he is talking about.
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Absolutely.

Also any proper journalist or reporter knows about the PPT and what probably happened last Tuesday.

McCain fell through the ice bigtime.
 
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