Ron Paul shows his "presidential" temperment
Twenty or so years ago, Ron Paul published a newsletter that helped make him famous and earned him a lot of money. The newsletter's content was blatantly racist. Paul has insisted ever since that because he didn't pay attention to what other people were writing in his name, and doesn't even know who did the writing in many cases, and in other cases meant things "tongue-in-cheek" or in an "academic" sense, and disavows the content of the newsletter now, (though not necessarily in the past), he somehow isn't responsible for it.
Or else he is responsible for it, but since he's taken responsibility for it, it can't be an issue anymore.
Personally, I find that lame attempt to evade responsibility for the newsletter in some ways almost as disturbing as the content of the newsletter itself. This is especially the case because Dr. Paul's... er, dedicated followers contain such a high percentage of "truthers," Holocaust deniers, white supremacists, and other generally worrisome people. Maybe they, too, have been deceived about those newsletter statements, and support Dr. Paul under false pretenses?
Dr. Paul was questioned about it on CNN yesterday. Here is the questioning-and his reaction:
Or else he is responsible for it, but since he's taken responsibility for it, it can't be an issue anymore.
Personally, I find that lame attempt to evade responsibility for the newsletter in some ways almost as disturbing as the content of the newsletter itself. This is especially the case because Dr. Paul's... er, dedicated followers contain such a high percentage of "truthers," Holocaust deniers, white supremacists, and other generally worrisome people. Maybe they, too, have been deceived about those newsletter statements, and support Dr. Paul under false pretenses?
Dr. Paul was questioned about it on CNN yesterday. Here is the questioning-and his reaction:
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