Amazed and pleased

Thu, 17 May 2007 15:25:54 +0100

I'm amazed and delighted to see Ron Paul getting some airtime as a candidate for the republican presidential nomination. Certainly in the parts of the debates that I watched he seemed like a breath of fresh air, especially in contrast to the likes of Guiliani.

I've been reading Ron's thoughts and opinions via LewRockwell.com for a couple of years now and I find him to be intelligent, sensitive, knowledgable, thoughtful. A man with a considered position that he can defend without resorting to personal attacks. In short, I think he would make a good leader, something the US has not had for quite some time.

If I may not agree with all his positions so what? As an outsider I am bound to say that I think he'd make a great president *if* he could carry the American public with him. And here, I believe, is the problem. Like the UK many of the problems of the US are related to foreign policy. Again like the UK, I'm not sure enough of America is ready to understand that other people will judge you by your actual foreign policy, i.e. what happens on their soil, rather than by the fine rhetoric fed to you by your leadership. I think they want the trouble to end but have not yet acknowledged that it's their own disinterest in the activities of their state that have lead them where they are.

My fear would be that a Ron Paul presidency would be dogged by the bitter revenge of the vested interests in U.S. politics that will not look kindly on the end of billions of dollars of defence pork.

Oh and I can't entirely agree with Steve Dekorte this time. That is to say, he may be right about losing support but, what Ron Paul said about 9/11 needed to be said by someone. For myself I didn't think he phrased it that poorly considering the context.

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