How's that Arab Spring working for ya?

The new Lybia imprisoned a diplomat to France and tortured him to death. They said he had cuts on his feet, several toenails missing and broken ribs.

Egypt, a long time American ally has decided to put 19 Americans on trial for daring to fund a non-profit organization. We helped Egypt get rid of it's government saying the people were being denied human rights.

The non-profit group is a human rights organization.

The people we are "helping" are going to be worse that the regimes we helped bring down.

Is the point you are trying to make "let's start minding our own business and vote for Ron Paul"?

If only there was anybody that could do a better job. Sadly, Americans must run America...so...it'll probably stay pretty much the way it is. And the collective America says, "Oops, my bad."

As for voting preferences, I once had a kid in Florida scam me out of 36 bucks, while wearing a Ron Paul sticker on his jacket. Fool me once...

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Is the point you are trying to make "let's start minding our own business and vote for Ron Paul"?

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If Ron Paul is the one who will get us out and keep us out of these messes, why not? Everyone else seems to be a shill for ever expansive government.

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I once had a kid in Florida scam me out of 36 bucks, while wearing a Ron Paul sticker on his jacket. Fool me once...

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he probably scammed the sticker from gugi

Never trust a man whose surname is also a first name.

James.

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As for voting preferences, I once had a kid in Florida scam me out of 36 bucks, while wearing a Ron Paul sticker on his jacket. Fool me once...

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For the record, it wasn't me. It's been a terribly long time since anyone would mistake me for a kid and I've never been a fan of Dr. Paul. He does great until you start him talking about foreign policy then he goes WAY off the deep end.

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Is the point you are trying to make "let's start minding our own business and vote for Ron Paul"?

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Hell no. Ron Paul is crazy. You want smaller government vote for Santorum.

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Never trust a man whose surname is also a first name.

James.

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I've got a better one. Never trust a man whose surname has a definition ranking at the top of the search engines.

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Hell no. Ron Paul is crazy. You want smaller government vote for Santorum.

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So, I was wrong after all, I guess this thread is just your garden variety hypocrisy.

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The people we are "helping" are going to be worse that the regimes we helped bring down.

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"He might be a Son of a bitch, but he's our Son of a bitch." Harry Truman

And that is what it is all about. Stacking the deck for those who put these people in power. I prefer the T Roosevelt method, "Walk softly and carry a big stick." All of our interference is going to bite us in the butt one of these days, big time.

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Whomever ends up ruling in Egypt, they're not going to stop selling their 3.7 billion barrels of oil they have in reserve, with or without the ridiculous amount of foreign aid we give that country. Thank goodness we don't need that money here, eh?

Regarding Ron Paul, I'm focusing on getting more small government/fiscal conservatives into the House. Whichever warmongering R gets into the White House isn't going to veto bills that get us on a path to living within our means.

So we're making Ron Paul the Ambassador to Egypt?

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So we're making Ron Paul the Ambassador to Egypt?

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I'd rather seem him head the Federal Reserve. Centrally planned price controls cause more problems than they solve:

Amazon.com: Where Keynes Went Wrong: And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts (9781604190175): Hunter Lewis: Books