If you can go hear him, please do so. It was the most magical event in my lifetime. I had the opporutunity to hear him at Washington and Lee and he took questions. I waited in the rain to shake his hand and thank him for being a life changer. He tried to steal my ticktet to the event. I wanted his autograph so he addressed it to me and wrote, "Don't steal" "Ron Paul". We talked about his son Rand b/c my name is Randall. I asked about Carol, lol. When I made it back to my car, his driver was blocking me in and I didn't care. I waited patiently until they left.
Ron Paul to speak at George Washington Univ in DC on 3/4/13
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He tried to steal your ticket? Accidentally, as in he forgot he was holding it? Or...?
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Going to this tonight. Excited to actually hear the man speak in person for once.
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I hope you get a Q & A, that is the best part! But I think the auditorium holds about 1400-1500 people, so I don't know if they will or not.
Let us know how it goes!
@sailingaway....I handed him my ticket to sign and he placed it in his pocket accidentally. We were talking for a few minutes and then I reminded him that he had my ticket stub in his left jacket pocket, lol. He laughed when he found it which led him to write "Don't steal". Yes, Ron Paul tried to steal from me....accidentally, haha
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thanks, I figured it was something like that, but....
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So how was he? Pretty good. Got a big ovation when he came in. Mostly younger crowd mixed with older people, but this is a college campus, so the demographics aren't really a surprise. The speech was focused more on the spreading of ideas and how there's a revolution brewing. If he narrowed it down to anything specific, it was mostly the economy and foreign policy and hammering Kerry giving out foreign aid. Talked about the military and how he got more donations than the other GOP candidates, Bradley Manning, individual liberty and the slowly, but surely rejection of the U.S. dollar.
There was Q&A. There was a question on gay marriage and his response seemed to resonate: government should just stay out of marriage altogeter and people should have the freedom to do whatever they want, as long as they don't force it on anyone. One question dealt with involvement overseas and his response was short and to the point: Just come home.
If there was a highlight, one person talked about how every four years, there's an election between a moderate conservative and a liberal Democrat. The person asked if we'd ever get a true conservative and mentioned both Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. The second he mentioned Rubio's name, there was a cluster of boos to my right. So as minor as may be, there's a section of people, at least at GW, that seem to not like Rubio.
So all in all, good speech. I appreciate the lack of a teleprompter and the speech felt very genuine, but the constant um's and 'you know's' really do grow annoying. Paul's never been the best orator or public speaker, in my opinion, and things like that do irk me, regardless of whose saying it, but I still enjoyed it.
There was Q&A. There was a question on gay marriage and his response seemed to resonate: government should just stay out of marriage altogeter and people should have the freedom to do whatever they want, as long as they don't force it on anyone. One question dealt with involvement overseas and his response was short and to the point: Just come home.
If there was a highlight, one person talked about how every four years, there's an election between a moderate conservative and a liberal Democrat. The person asked if we'd ever get a true conservative and mentioned both Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. The second he mentioned Rubio's name, there was a cluster of boos to my right. So as minor as may be, there's a section of people, at least at GW, that seem to not like Rubio.
So all in all, good speech. I appreciate the lack of a teleprompter and the speech felt very genuine, but the constant um's and 'you know's' really do grow annoying. Paul's never been the best orator or public speaker, in my opinion, and things like that do irk me, regardless of whose saying it, but I still enjoyed it.
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Thank you for reporting back!
His transitions are never his best, and he does um and such when he is trying to change direction. It would help him to have transitions ready when he wants to change topic, but he changes topic based on the crowd from what I can tell. He always gives me something to think about though, instead of just trying to strike chords where he knows people already agree, though, at least for the ones I saw. I'd have liked to have heard this, particularly the q & a, though...
His transitions are never his best, and he does um and such when he is trying to change direction. It would help him to have transitions ready when he wants to change topic, but he changes topic based on the crowd from what I can tell. He always gives me something to think about though, instead of just trying to strike chords where he knows people already agree, though, at least for the ones I saw. I'd have liked to have heard this, particularly the q & a, though...
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