Rand Paul leaves the campaign trail for eye surgeries in Haiti

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Rand Paul leaves the campaign trail for eye surgeries in Haiti

By David Weigel
August 14 at 6:58 PM

This weekend, while the political world descends on Iowa's state fairgrounds, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will be fixing cataracts 2000 miles away. As he's done every summer recess since joining the Senate, Paul's performing pro bono eye surgery. This year's mission, run and sponsored by the Moran Eye Center from the University of Utah, will take Paul to Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.

"We kind of suggested it," said Paul in an interview. "There was talk about Haiti being in great need, and it's fairly close to the United States. Haiti, unfortunately, is famous for a long history of problems."

In 2014, Paul joined the Moran center on a similar trip to Guatemala, where he reunited with old patients and broke out his rusty, Texas-tutored Spanish. He has no similar connection to Haiti.

"You want to go where the need is greatest," Paul said. "In our country, when you have cataracts, they're relatively easy to fix. The people we will treat in Haiti -- many of them will be completely blind. There's less medical access there. It's closer to the equator. There's more sun, people are outside more, fewer people even have sunglasses. So there's a lot you can do."

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The timing of this is quite fortunate. Not only is he doing a pretty cool thing, but politically, it could work to his advantage.

Especially, if his name keeps coming up with Trump. The media will mention who Rand is and what he is doing. Any attacks on him during this trip will have to include the disclaimer about how much good he is doing in the real world.
 
Aside from it being a great feeling to help those in need and practice his craft, I'm sure it will also be nice to get away and take a short break from the campaign.

The constant grind of going from town to town, doing multiple stops and speeches a day has to be pretty draining. I remember how Ron would look so much fresher and energetic after a couple days away.
 
Jackie Moon said:
Aside from it being a great feeling to help those in need and practice his craft, I'm sure it will also be nice to get away and take a short break from the campaign.

The constant grind of going from town to town, doing multiple stops and speeches a day has to be pretty draining. I remember how Ron would look so much fresher and energetic after a couple days away.
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I really agree a few days off is what Rand needs. I just dont see how eye surgeries in Haiti is that relaxing.... nevertheless it is just good. But pls Rand, take 2 days off after coming home before going campaign trail again.
 
Hope he'll be headed home by Wed. Looks like hurricane Danny will be moving through then.
 
I think Rand's already back in the States / Kentucky. He's laying low because all the travel vaccines he took to travel overseas are kicking in now and he's sick as a dog.
 
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