There is also a good John Nichols piece in The Nation, a place I would have not expected to find such a thing. Some liberals and feminists are apoplectic about Paul, thinking that somehow his crappy ideas are leaching into the populace.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected] > wrote: > Well, indeed, and what I am doing is not actually campaigning for him, > but using him as a hook to push an antiwar agenda. > > Ryan Grim did the same thing in his piece in Huffington Post which I > forwarded. The piece isn't about Ron Paul at all. It's about the drug > war. The piece starts out: Ron Paul says the drug war is racist. Is > that true? Let's investigate...and off it goes. > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > > If it's not too zen for y'all, supporting Paul is not really supporting > > Paul. > > He isn't going to be president. The most visible stuff about him is the > > themes of anti-war, anti-drug-war, and cancel the rest of government. The > > latter isn't going to happen, while the first two are pretty popular. So > in > > my view by all means talk them up. That doesn't prevent anyone for noting > > the genuinely wacky, less visible stuff in his platform, as well as the > vile > > material in his newsletters. He's being made out to be David Duke, but > Duke > > campaigned on racism. Paul does not. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > > > -- > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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