Myrtle Beach, SC – Republican presidential debate, is being held tonight from Myrtle Beach, S.C., by Fox News Channel.
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The six candidates on stage: Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Sen. John McCain, Rep. Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson.
The debate became very heated on the issue of Israel, all the candidates tried to defend how strongly they will stand with Israel, but the highlight of the responses that caused a lot of applause’s was Rep. Ron Paul, when he made his case that the U.S. should stay out of the Middle East and should not be, for example, trying to broker peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. He said the U.S. treats Israel like a child in many respects, He said “Let Israel take care of their own problems, they know well how to do it”
Rep. Paul continued to argue, the US should stop supplying the Arab nations with weapons so the US will not need to defend Israel, Rep. Paul claimed he was the only American politician that openly supported Israel in 1981 when they bombed the nuclear reactor in Iraq. [VIN News]
If Ron Paul’s concept is right this time? Yes! Is he an anti-Semite? Could be as well! Definitely a racist!
That brings my point, he wants the US to stop supporting Israel, & because he needs our votes & pro Israel votes he mentioned a nice reason why, “but” if you look at history where he stands you will see that the real reason why he does not want the US to support Israel is very simple “he hates Israel”
Now, a good question, why did not Giuliani have the same idea? its is very simple again, look at Giuliani’s history as mayor in NY, the way he rooted out crime, he did not let PC get in his way so naturally he has no problem supporting Israel to its full & still let Israel do whatever it needs to do….. Without fear of the so called self destructive political correctness rubbish
Vote Giuliani, Israel’s only proven friend!
Sam
Mendy is full of baloney. I dare Mendy or anyone else to provide a clip of Ron Paul saying a single word against a single Jew. Mendy is a silly boy.
Anyone accusing Ron Paul of being “anti-semitic” is on some kind of drugs, possibly cocaine. This is absolutely ridiculous. Ron Paul is simply a person who wants to place the USA first, second, and third, instead of Israel-First Neo-Cons who want to put the Zionist state First and second, and perhaps even third. Go, Ron, Go! Hashem zol zayn mit dir. Amen.
Well, Paul is essentially correct, but he’s similar to Buchanan, in that he makes some helpful statements but underlying it all he’s not on our side.
As Jew-hating as Paul may be, he’s right this time–America should NOT support Israel because it just makes the Arabs mad (and which is why Osama attacked us on 9/11–do your research and you’ll it’s true–he said so explicitly several times), and if you think America NOT supporting Israel will put Israel in mortal danger, think again–without having to please America as Corporate Sponsor #1 , they will wipe out the terrorists in a day. The only reason they don’t is because they’re afraid of losing American support (read: CASH). So Dr. Paul is right–it’s just too bad an anti-Semite, and not a normal candidate like Guiliani or Huckabee or Thompson, was the source of this truth.
Ron Paul also believes Israel was behind the 1993 attacks.
Paul needs a doctor ASAP if u haved listen to the debate
His problm is money money money!!!!!!!
Fear not, Paul does not stand a chance anyway.
The only real friend Israel has on that platform is Giuliani. As mayor he proved it over and over again. In any case, that is not the only reason to vote for him, of course, but it’s important to us.
Ron Paul ’90s newsletters rant against blacks, gays
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Ron Paul newsletters from 1990s include rants against blacks, gays
NEW: Paul repudiates racist comments, tells CNN the material wasn’t written by him
One newsletter calls Martin Luther King Jr. a “pro-Communist philanderer”
Another says 1992 LA riots ended after blacks went to “pick up their welfare checks”
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A series of newsletters in the name of GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul contain several racist remarks — including one that says order was restored to Los Angeles after the 1992 riots when blacks went “to pick up their welfare checks.”
This is a copy of one of the “Ron Paul Political Report” newsletters, which has stirred controversy.
1 of 2 CNN recently obtained the newsletters — written in the 1990s and one from the late 1980s — after a report was published about their existence in The New Republic.
None of the newsletters CNN found says who wrote them, but each was published under Paul’s name between his stints as a U.S. congressman from Texas.
Paul told CNN’s “The Situation Room” Thursday that he didn’t write any of the offensive articles and has “no idea” who did. Watch Paul’s full interview with CNN »
“When you bring this question up, you’re really saying, ‘You’re a racist’ or ‘Are you a racist?’ And the answer is, ‘No, I’m not a racist,'” he said.
Paul said he had never even read the articles with the racist comments. See the newsletter excerpts for yourself »
“I do repudiate everything that is written along those lines,” he said, adding he wanted to “make sure everybody knew where I stood on this position because it’s obviously wrong.”
But that’s not good enough, says one political veteran.
“These stories may be very old in Ron Paul’s life, but they’re very new to the American public and they deserve to be totally ventilated,” said David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst. “I must say I don’t think there’s an excuse in politics to have something go out under your name and say, ‘Oh by the way, I didn’t write that.'”
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The controversial newsletters include rants against the Israeli lobby, gays, AIDS victims and Martin Luther King Jr. — described as a “pro-Communist philanderer.” One newsletter, from June 1992, right after the LA riots, says “order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.”
Another says, “The criminals who terrorize our cities — in riots and on every non-riot day — are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to ‘fight the power,’ to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible.”
In some excerpts, the reader may be led to believe the words are indeed from Paul, a resident of Lake Jackson, Texas. In the “Ron Paul Political Report” from October 1992, the writer describes carjacking as the “hip-hop thing to do among the urban youth who play unsuspecting whites like pianos.”
The author then offers advice from others on how to avoid being carjacked, including “an ex-cop I know,” and says, “I frankly don’t know what to make of such advice, but even in my little town of Lake Jackson, Texas, I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming.”
In his interview with CNN, Paul said that’s language he would never use. “People who know me, nobody is going to believe this,” he said. “That’s just not my language. It’s not my life.”
He added, “Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Ghandi, they’re the heroes [of my life].”
Matt Welch, the editor-in-chief of “Reason” magazine who shares some of Paul’s beliefs on big government, says he has never heard the congressman make racist comments like those in the newsletters.
“What I think some people are looking for him to do is to say, ‘OK, who wrote that?’ I mean, there’s 20 years, give or take, worth of newsletters there,” Welch said.
Paul said the editor of publications “is responsible for daily activities.” But he also cited “transition” and “changes” and said that some people were hired to write stories “but I didn’t know their names.”
The presidential hopeful described the newsletter revelations as a “rehash” of old material dug up by his opponents because he is gaining ground with black voters due to his stance against the war in Iraq and the war on drugs.
“I am the anti-racist because I am the only candidate — Republican or Democrat — who would protect the minority against these vicious drug laws,” he said.
“Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea.”
I am sorry but this is most ridiculous. Paul is by far the most Anti-semitic candidate. He has said terrible comments about Israel. Just look a bit.
NO, ron paul is not someone to vote far, at all.
finally- now I at least have one person to vote for.
What did Hillary say? lets give MORE weapons to the arabs?