Video update: Ron Paul owns foreign policy questions on Fox with Greta Van Susteren
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That last sentence was
. The man has balls like grapefruits.
Here's $20. Keep it up, Doc.
Here's $20. Keep it up, Doc.
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HD version FTW:
Got to give Greta HUGE PROPS for keeping Doc on topic at the very beginning of the interview. He almost went into "ignore question - give a history lesson" mode at the very beginning, but she quickly butted in and steered him back on course.
Got to give Greta HUGE PROPS for keeping Doc on topic at the very beginning of the interview. He almost went into "ignore question - give a history lesson" mode at the very beginning, but she quickly butted in and steered him back on course.
Dude, you should quit being a Ron Paul supporter...god forbid you ever get into politics and just start saying what the establishment wants you to. You want him to sell out? He has been doing this for decades, if he listened to negative people like you he would have never made it anywhere. Rand Paul wouldn't even be in Senate if it wasn't for Dr. Paul being the way he is. Ron Paul speaks the truth, you apparently don't get it...everything you said is nonsense...YOU ARE CRAZY!
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What I love about these neocon hosts is that they think they really have one up on Ron when they start talking about foreign policy.
When he smashes them, it makes it all the more wonderful.
This. Absolutely.
Because you can't really fix these situations that Ron Paul was asked about. The whole middle east is in a complete mess because of the U.S.'s involvement. Trying to fix the problems with more U.S. involvement will only make things worse. The only thing the U.S. can do is do the right thing for now on, which is minding our own business, diplomacy, and free trade...then let everything fix themselves over time.
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No woman in the world could make me want to give them my last measly $200 as bad as Ron Paul makes me want to give it to his campaign. The most fearless, brave American, REAL AMERICAN, that I have ever seen. He will never stop charging in to fight this behemoth of a monster of ignorance, lies and corruption, and all FOR US! He cares so much about us, about saving our soldiers from unnecessary pain, misery and death, about the people, about showing us the truth, about being honest with us because he knows we can take it. No political pandering, ever, just an iron will and determination to one day guide us back to a better America.
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Yes this^. Why couldn't he have been saying this for the past 6 months?
It's a nonsense question because Paul (nor any other candidate except Obama) has access to all the information necessary to begin to answer what they would hypothetically do as President in a scenario of A and B and C. Ill admit that I don't watch interviews with Mitt or Newt or whoever but I doubt they get asked that same sort of question. In fact, I remember Paul saying basically this when previously asked a similar "What would you do as President?" question about a month ago. He doesn't have all the information necessary to answer it and who can really answer that in a few minute interview segment anyway? It's a question designed to produce "gotcha moments" that Fox can then twist and trumpet about how "Paul would appease Iran" or whatever.
The interview was fine overall and RP did a good job. It's unrealistic to expect him to answer such a convoluted question with any level of specificity in the first place.
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Excellent interview, and it really resonated with me after listening to one of the better Dan Carlin Common Sense episodes today. Really laid out the immensity of the War on Terror fallacy. Recommended - http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/csarchive/Show-191---Divine-Divides/terrorism-Islam-Muslim
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I thought Greta was fair and Ron was a mixed bag. Great with the stump, great with sound bites, but bad with specifics. Greta asked him numerous times about what he would do about foreign issues right now, he barely answered and constantly moved towards why we got here. That's important, but while we need a good FP to avoid these situations in the future; we need to actually solve the issues in the present. A sensible FP doesn't include a time machine to go back and implement a sensible policy that would avoid current issues. Paul has to clean up others mess, and he needs to be clear on how he will clean it up....as well as how he would stop it from happening as much in the future
Ron should talk about all the drone strikes against civilians, and how it would make us feel if someone launched a missile at a funeral in Arlington cemetary and took out a couple dozen innocent mourners. That's effectively what we're doing in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq right now, and we are going to get HUGE blowback from that some day. Even if it doesn't happen for 10 years, it's definitely coming - how could it not be? I don't think any other candidate has addressed the issues of "drones" as a general subject so far, and how we have taken to remote control assassination without any trial or any concern for due process to determine if people are actually guilty or not.
BTW - Ron should do interviews like this with Cavuto - he's probably the most fair interviewer on Fox other than the Judge.
BTW - Ron should do interviews like this with Cavuto - he's probably the most fair interviewer on Fox other than the Judge.
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In Syria, he would work out a diplomatic solution and stop intervening. For Iran, he would let Israel deal with them, but pointed out Iran is not even a threat to Israel anyway. For the Egypt hostages, he said we obviously have an obligation to get the hostages out of there and would work out a diplomatic situation. But the eggs are already scrambled. Things like this are the consequences of intervention over there. What else could he have said?
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