Rand Paul speech at Howard University 4/10/13 (tube added)

[jct74]

hemp!

 

[Nirvikalpa]

Good applause on keeping non-violent criminals out of jail...

 

[georgiaboy]

I think Rand is scoring some good points here.

 

[jmdrake]

Rand just asked about law proposed by democrats and signed by Obama that gave judicial immunity to Monsanto. Good question and good answer from Rand! Now he's being asked about the death penalty. Again he's handling the question great. I missed the CRA question so I'll have to watch that later.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

This answer here may make or break him. Civil rights act.

Edit: Ouch, didn't like that answer...

 

[Tod]

skipped addressing the q about bush and obama being charged for going to war w/o a declaration

 

[jmdrake]

Rand just said he was never against the Civil Rights Act with respect to race but was against the broader applications with regards to smoking and calories on menus? WTF? I know what Rand is trying to say. The broad interpretation of the commerce clause, which the Civil Rights Act is based on, applies to all federal mandates on private business. But the Civil Rights Act itself has never been applied to smoking. Come on Rand. Your audience is smarter than that. That's a bad soundbite. But not a total loss.

Rand just did a good job on a question about impeachment. Now he's being asked about the EPA and free markets. He's using the "You can't polute on your neighbor's property" argument and spoke positively about the clean water act, but pointing out how it's gone to far by calling "dirt" a pollutant and "your back yard" a navigable stream.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

Yeah, that Civil Rights question/answer was just horrid.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

God damnit, this question...

 

[Brett85]

I missed his response to the death penalty question. What is his position on that?

 

[wormyguy]

Don't personalize it, Rand...

And talk about the education bubble!

 

[jmdrake]

Rand did a great job explaining positives on Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan while rejecting the idea of a separate nation for African Americans. Now dealing with someone who says "I don't want a government that leaves me alone." Rand is doing great explaining the negative effect of using debt to help everyone with everything. "It does you no good if you graduate from Howard with 60K in debt from student loans and you can't get a job because we borrowed so much money from China." That's a t-shirt worthy quote.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

I missed his response to the death penalty question. What is his position on that?

That on an emotional side, if someone was to murder his wife he would probably want him dead, but he also recognizes the courts have made mistakes. He basically ended his response by saying he does not support the federal courts handling the life of death of someone, and would rather it be in the hands of state courts.

 

[jct74]

well that was pretty interesting!

 

[jmdrake]

I missed his response to the death penalty question. What is his position on that?

He's conflicted. If someone was trying to kill his wife he would have no problem executing the person on the spot in her defense. And, in his humanness, he would probably want to see them executed if they got caught sometime later. But he realizes there have been a lot of false positives. He's for repeal of all federal death penalties except maybe treason.

 

[Tod]

I missed his response to the death penalty question. What is his position on that?

I came away not knowing the answer to that. He does think that it should be a state issue except maybe for stuff like treason.

 

[Brett85]

I didn't hear what he said in regards to the Civil Rights Act question, but I wish that Rand would just say that he would've supported repealing the state level Jim Crow laws that caused the private businesses to discriminate in the first place.

 

[jmdrake]

skipped addressing the q about bush and obama being charged for going to war w/o a declaration

Ok. I was typing while he was talking so I didn't quite get it. I heard him say "Yes...no...yes..yes..no.." etc to the series of questions on that subject, but I guess I missed the overall gist. So it was a punt?

 

[Tod]

I have to say, I think his dad would have come away winning more of the audience than Rand did.

 

[hillertexas]

I though he did a great job.