Video update: Ron Paul owns foreign policy questions on Fox with Greta Van Susteren

[devil21]

I try to look at it from a neutral point of view. Frankly it doesn't matter what you think the interview was like. Not at all. And it doesn't matter what I thought either. What matters is what the Grandmas and Grandpas watching thought. Most people here think every time Paul speaks that he does a tremendous job, even if he doesn't win over voters. Go re-watch the clip, Greta asked the same question a few times, and Paul was ducking it. Yes, for people like us he snuck the answer in, but to Grandma watching she hears him ducking the question. The answer needs to be after the question, not after a paragraph or two explaning why we got here. And to Grandma, since why we got here is at least partially due to our behavior, and since Grandma has been voting for the bulk of the time, then yes, she thinks he is blaming her.

She's asking the same question over and over because she wants some specific answer RIGHT NOW about how RP would take care of the world's problems at American expense. Then, if she's lucky, he'll say something Fox News can twist into another meme about appeasement or hating Israel or whatever else. Surely you've figured out by now that the media's only job when it comes to RP is to find ways to smear him at every opportunity to torpedo his campaign. If Grandma wants to hear how her grandkids will foot the bill to "neutralize" Iran on behalf of Israel then she's not understanding non-intervention at all and has obviously forgotten her own conservative roots. Do you really think we'll change Grandma's mind by LYING? Again I ask whether you have any clue what RP stands for???? Nevermind that if he played politics for the answer that Grandma wants to hear he would be a flipflopper....and voila there's your next sound bite for the media to harp on. The only answer he would give is "I wouldn't do anything" and that's exactly what Fox News wants him to outright say so they can twist it into some meme about how Paul would be a "do-nothing President", which isn't even true but it works for their agenda.

And saying that one cannot say Paul "mumbled" or gave a bad answer while also being a supporter makes you seem like a biased person that cannot live in reality. Every single one of us should be married to the ideology, to the ideas, and not to the candidate. Paul is certainly fallible. He is not some deity. The sooner you realize he is human and can make mistakes the better.

Im pretty sure we all know he makes mistakes. We also know that there are lots of low poster newbs (trolls) that show up here spreading negativity at every opportunity. Are you one of them? I don't know but we see enough of them that posts like yours immediately raises red flags.

Um, it is his mess to clean up, especially if he is POTUS. The POTUS is supposed to have solutions. My point was his answers were not clear to the avg viewer. Greta has to ask numerous times to a pretty basic question. His solutions were mumbled deep into his responses that our policies were what got us into this mess. Yes, that's important, but you still have to solve it whether or not we helped create it. At some point Americans want to hear solutions rather than just blaming us and the past.

Why is fixing Israel/Iran, Syria and Americans arrested abroad the job of the President of the USA to fix? Where is the policeman of the world section of the Constitution? His solution was obvious to anyone paying attention. Let those nations figure out their own problems. Any other "solutions" outside of simple diplomacy, which RP mentioned, are interventionism and not part of his platform. I can't tell if you are either 1) genuinely asking RP to be an interventionist President or 2) genuinely asking RP to play politics by lying solely to win a vote. Those are the only two options I see based on the content of your posts in this thread.