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December 16, 2007


This day keeps getting more unbelievable! For those of you who might not know yet, today is quickly turning into a spectacular fundraising day for Ron Paul. You've already raised over $3.7 million since midnight!

Over 30,000 of your fellow Americans have made a contribution today, including more than 13,000 who have done so for the first time.

As always, you're helping Ron Paul blow past everyone's expectations and moving Dr. Paul one step closer to President Paul. We're all honored to be a part of this historic campaign. We have nothing but admiration for the support that each of you gives everyday to Ron Paul and the cause of freedom.

How high can we go? Who knows! If you've been considering making a donation to our campaign, please help us shatter every possible fundraising record by donating today: https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate

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Ron Paul 2008

Tea Party Rally Planned for Ron Paul

I got my information from http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=52638

Saturday, December 15, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com

Hundreds of Ron Paul supporters are expected to peacefully converge in downtown Boston on Sunday, December 16th at 1:00pm on the State House steps for what is anticipated to be the largest one day fundraiser for a presidential candidate – ever.

The event, dubbed The BostonTeaParty07, will coincide with the 234th anniversary of the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773 which is widely recognized as helping to spark the American Revolution.

The event in Boston on December 16th also corresponds to the second planned “Money Bomb” that Paul’s supporters have organized independent of his official campaign.

Supporters of the ten term congressman will begin the rally at 1:00pm on the State House steps and walk the Freedom Trail to Faneuil Hall where the doors will open at 2:30.

Inside Faneuil Hall banks of computers will be set up ready to securely process online donations made directly to Ron Paul’s official campaign site. Tea will be served while participants listen to lectures from prominent figures regarding the historical significance of the Boston Tea Party, the origins of The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as well as commentary on current events. Dr. Rand Paul, the candidate’s son, is also slated to speak.

Ron Paul stands apart from the other GOP presidential contenders by vigorously opposing the war in Iraq. Citing the Constitution as his guide, Paul opposes law enforcement or anti-terrorism measures that encroach on civil liberties. His views on small government extend to eliminating the IRS and The Federal Reserve. He favors limiting immigration and strengthening border security while promoting a foreign policy of “non-intervention”.

Ron Paul’s campaign made headlines on November 5th with its first “Money Bomb”, a one day fundraiser which netted over $4.3 million. The December 16th event seeks to surpass that number.

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BostonTeaParty07 was planned by members of Boston Ron Paul MeetUp #68 and paid for by Liberty League PAC

www.LibertyLeaguePAC.org

The event is not authorized by the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign

Bush: Iran Must Explain Hidden Nuclear Weapons Program

By Scott Stearns
White House
11 December 2007


President Bush says Iran must explain why it hid a past nuclear weapons program from United Nations inspectors. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Iran says it is enriching uranium only for a peaceful civilian program to generate electricity.

President Bush speaks about Iran during a meeting with Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, not pictured, 11 Dec 2007
President Bush speaks about Iran during a meeting with Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, not pictured, 11 Dec 2007
President Bush is trying to keep international pressure on Iran after last week's National Intelligence Estimate found that Tehran stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago.

Mr. Bush says the U.S. intelligence report proves that Iran was lying to the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.

"Iran must explain to the world why they had a program. Iran has an obligation to explain to the IAEA why they hid this program from them," he said. "Iran is dangerous, and they will be even more dangerous if they learn how to enrich uranium."

The president spoke following a meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano during which the two men discussed the nuclear standoff.

Iran's Fars news agency says Tehran has begun a new round of talks with U.N. experts who are seeking information on past nuclear activities.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the latest U.S. intelligence report is a step forward. He told reporters if further such steps are taken, the way will be open for resolving regional and bilateral issues

White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino called this "fanciful thinking."

"It's a very opaque society in Iran," she said. "The president asked for more information from our intelligence community. He got more information. And it confirmed what he thought to be true, which is that Iran was a threat, is a threat, and will certainly continue to be a threat if we don't stop them from obtaining that capability to have a nuclear weapon."

The Bush administration is pushing for another round of U.N. sanctions against Iran. Officials from the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany are to discuss the draft of a new sanctions resolution Tuesday.

President Ahmadinejad says there is no legal basis for new sanctions against Iran.

SPECIAL COMMENT 12/6/07, keith olbermann

Ron Paul is no longer a dark horse

CARLA MARINUCCI
San Francisco Chronicle

They were a lonely band of rebels until just a few weeks ago, backing the darkest of dark horse presidential candidates.

But with Republican Rep. Ron Paul's fundraising on the rise - $4.2 million raised on the Internet in one day this month - and his poll numbers jumping, the Texas congressman might no longer be a "who?" but a potential problem for leading Republican presidential candidates in key states such as New Hampshire.

And in California, the state where the 72-year-old doctor-politician has raised the most money, those who call themselves part of the "Ron Paul Revolution" couldn't be happier.

Paul's backers are people such as Brad Sanford, 29, a Silicon Valley tech worker who said he never had been involved in politics or campaigns until this year.

Sanford, attending a Paul campaign Bay Area "meet-up" event, said he first caught Paul's appearances on cable programs like "The Bill Maher Show," "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report." Since then, Sanford has registered Republican for the first time to vote in the California presidential primary on Feb. 5 while "maxing out" his political donation budget with $2,300 to Paul's campaign.

Sanford now is walking precincts for Paul because he said the candidate is strongly against the war in Iraq and can appeal to millions who believe that America has "strayed too far from our values" and fundamentals laid out in the Constitution.

"For young people, it's the war; for older people, it's a straight common-sense approach" to taxes, the economy and values, said Holly Clearman, California field coordinator for the Paul campaign.

Clearman said the life of a Ron Paul supporter used to be a lonely undertaking.

"I thought there were only 10 of us, and nobody I knew," she said. But that changed in recent months as the candidate raised $9 million this quarter, and "the cat is out of the bag."

Paul followers are buoyed by the latest polls from CNN and the New York Times showing that their candidate has jumped ahead of former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Iowa, the site of the nation's first 2008 primary on Jan. 3.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Arizona Sen. John McCain still dominate the race in that independent-minded, "Live Free or Die" state. But Paul's recent rise has prompted pundits to acknowledge that the Texan - once dismissed as a fringe candidate - could have an impact on the presidential race.

Paul's eclectic mix of fiercely libertarian and conservative values has created a passionate support base that might be unlike any other candidate in the 2008 presidential race.

The former practicing obstetrician, who has served in the House about 20 of the past 35 years, is vehemently anti-abortion - voting against federal funding of abortion, stem cell research and even family planning funding in U.S. foreign aid - and strongly pro-gun rights. His views have gained him high ratings from conservatives and groups such as the Christian Coalition and the National Rifle Association. Paul also is seen as strongly anti-environmental by groups such as the League of Conservation Voters, which gave him just a 5 percent legislative rating on his voting record.

But Paul also appeals to progressives on a number of issues: He supports repealing most federal drug laws, including those against medical marijuana, is against the death penalty, vigorously opposes the war in Iraq and is against the Patriot Act and free trade agreements such as NAFTA.

Indeed, some political analysts suggested he is the 2008 campaign's political ink blot test - able to represent whatever voters see in him.

Stephanie Burns, 50, a construction manager from Sausalito, Calif., who helps arrange biweekly Bay Area meetings in support of Paul, said the Texas congressman's campaign - like Democrat Howard Dean's in 2004 - has skillfully utilized the Internet to reach out to voters who might otherwise never be connected. "And ever since the $4.2 million, it has changed things," she said. "There's a lot more recognition by the media."

Burns motioned around the room to some of the people the Internet has brought to Paul's cause.

"I've never even been interested in politics my whole life," Brandy Alexander, 34, a University California-San Francisco researcher, told the group.

But after she and her boyfriend, William Newby, 28, a computer programmer, watched Paul slam U.S. involvement in the Iraq war and expound on his views during the televised GOP debates, they were hooked.

Thanks to Paul, she said, "Now, I find myself borderline obsessed with it.

Iran halted nuclear program in 2003, who knew?

CNN vs CNN - Flip Flopping on NAFTA / NAU

This is a message from Ron Paul..


December 3, 2007


Want to know a secret? There were two moments I especially enjoyed at the CNN/YouTube debate -- despite my frustration at some of the questions, and the maldistribution of time.

First, I was pleased at John McCain's attack, which he clearly had planned. Not because that sort of stream-of-consciousness nonsense about Hitler and WWII -- when the neocons openly want what they call WW IV! Are we to forget that the first war crime charged at Nuremberg was waging aggressive war?

I mean this: mainstream politicians NEVER attack an opponent they think is far behind. The McCain campaign, we've heard, is worried sick about New Hampshire, and they thought a slam at me would help. Ha! Of course,
it only strengthened our forces.

Then, after the debate, Rudy Giuliani walked up to me and said, "Oooh, you sure have a LOT of supporters." It's only the beginning, I told him.

Indeed, he could have told that by the crowd outside after the debate. Mitt Romney had a few people, but no one else did. We, on the other hand, had about 500 enthusiastic revolutionaries, plus a boat, a trolley, and two planes towing lighted signs. As I looked out at the crowd, I thought: the establishment has no idea of what they are facing. We have an army of freedom, prosperity, and peace. As the LA Times political blog noted the other day, the
British also thought they had no problem with the Americans--until Yorktown.

But we have an astoundingly short time before the first contests. The Iowa caucuses are on January 3, the New Hampshire primary is on January 8, and Nevada and South Carolina are both on January 19. We have only
30 days to stake our claim to the nomination, and to the new America that restores the ideals of the founders, and leads the world through free enterprise, a sound dollar, the rule of law, and peaceful example. Not through
inflation and bombs.

Help me surprise the neocons and all the establishment with our success. Help me build the foundation for the America we all want. Send your most generous contribution: https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate. The military-industrial complex, the biased media, the big banks, the Fed, the waterboarders, and the IRS don't like what we're doing. But every good American is applauding us, and daring to hope for a better future.

Please, help me give it to them, to us, to all Americans to come. Keep this revolution growing and winning:
https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate.

Sincerely,

Ron

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What President Paul Could Do

See this comment by historian Clyde Wilson:

"I think perhaps folks under-estimate the extent to which Ron Paul could make a real difference were he elected. The veto is a tremendous tool if properly and skillfully used. The corrupt Congress could be forced to give up some of its spending in order to keep the rest of it. Besides, they tend to kowtow to anyone who is President, especially the Republicans. Further, the Presidency truly is a bully pulpit. A President with wisdom and courage can address and educate the country any time he wants, without advance censorship by the media. A President determined on reform could do what Reagan promised but never did—send dedicated, smart people into the departments to cut, cut, cut spending. The talented and dedicated people are out there. They just need to be identified and put in place instead of party hacks. The President can simply decline to spend money, as Bush is doing with the border fence. The President can make issues felt and clear—for instance, the need to make Social Security pay as you go. He can reveal the corrupt spending legislation that comes to him. Think positively. The New York bankers will of course try to block and discredit any honest President, but there are ways of fighting back."

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Hello, I just wanted to let you all know who I am and what I believe in.
I am someone who cares about our freedoms. I support Ron Paul and what he stands for, but I also support your right to choose who you want to support.I have been posting alot of news on the presidential candidates so you can keep up on the ones you want to support, some might not be good news but some are.
I will be putting video's on here that some of you might not like, but they are video's I pick, because I support Ron Paul. All I ask is, don't leave nasty comments on my blog, you can leave your views but try and word them without using profanity.
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Paul pushes individual freedoms

CEDAR RAPIDS — Trying to get a handle on who's supporting U.S. Rep. Ron Paul for the Republican presidential nomination is tricky on a number of levels.

The obvious problem is that many of his supporters prefer cell phones to land lines so they aren't contacted by pollsters, Paul, 72, explained during a recent visit to Cedar Rapids. Other supporters don't show up on pollsters' call lists of "likely caucus-goers" because they are young and have never caucused, or they are Republicans who have dropped out of party activities for a decade or more, the 31-year Texas congressman added.

Then there's the fact that his backers represent such diverse — and often disparate — political philosophies that they defy convention.

In addition to opposing the Iraq war, Paul has attracted supporters of Second Amendment gun rights as well as opponents of abortion, income taxes and the North American Free Trade Agreement. He also wins the backing of those who want to return to the gold standard, decriminalize marijuana and pull out of the United Nations and NATO.

If there is a common thread that weaves through Paul's patchwork quilt of support, however, it is individual freedom.

"I find that tends to bring people together rather than divide us because it recognizes that people have different beliefs and different lifestyles, and we don't challenge each other," said Paul, a former obstetrician and Air Force flight surgeon.

"They want to be free," said his Linn County campaign chairman, Ed Dolan of Central City. "They're tired of government telling them what to do."

And they're not just Republicans.

"I'm putting signs in Democrats' yards," Dolan said. "I'm getting calls from independents and people who have never been involved."

There's a one-word explanation of what's motivating Paul supporters, according to Drew Ivers, the campaign's Iowa chairman.

"There's a common thread: change," Ivers said. "It's a platitude. Barack Obama is speaking it. Hillary Clinton is speaking it, so it's as trite a platitude as you'll ever hear."

The difference, according to Ivers, who is on his fifth presidential caucus campaign, is that in most cases, promising change "is the carrot the donkey never gets."

"People do want true change and are looking for the candidate who can really deliver it," he said.

Paul, who ran for president as a Libertarian in 1988 and received fewer than 500,000 votes, shies away from predicting how well he'll do in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses other than to say "the higher the better." Despite polling in the single digits, Paul's use of phrases like "top three finish" suggest that he has upset on his mind.

"If you can get 37,000 people to send a donation on one day over the Internet without us doing a single thing or paying one penny for the fundraising, I can't believe those people and their families and their friends and the people they talk to over the next months won't be voting," Paul said. "I mean, what are they investing in if not to get people to the polls?"

Dolan acknowledges the conventional wisdom is that a candidate has to finish in the top three to get a ticket out of Iowa. Paul may finish in the top flight, Dolan suggested, but regardless of how he fares Jan. 3, the campaign will go on.

"None of us sit around and talk about 'If we don't come in first or second we need to change our plan,'" Paul said.

"Our plan is our plan. Our plan is our message," he said. If there's enthusiasm, if the numbers grow, if the money comes in, we'll just keep plugging along and doing what we do. The higher the better.

"It would be pretty darn discouraging if there are eight people on the ballot and I'm eighth," he said. "That would mean we have deluded ourselves into believing that Internet support was bigger than we realized."

Dolan expects Paul to do well in Iowa and, perhaps, even better in New Hampshire where the libertarian philosophy is captured in the state motto — "Live free or die."

"That may be where the campaign takes off," Dolan said

The campaign has a national strategy, Ivers said, noting that Paul has not spent as much time in Iowa as other candidates.

"We're laying the groundwork all over. Not just in Iowa," he said.

"We don't have to win here to have the momentum we need to do well in New Hampshire, South Carolina and beyond."

Paul is scheduled to be in Iowa on Dec. 11 and 12, Dec. 27 through 29 and Jan. 2 and 3.

Ron Paul has caught the attention of many

Dennis Lee of Selah had never really been involved in presidential politics before. For that matter, neither had Gordon Althauser of Ellensburg or Royal Schoen of Yakima.

But they're involved now. They're giving their time and money to Ron Paul, a maverick Republican congressman from Texas who won support from just 5 percent of respondents in a recent Gallup Poll matchup with other GOP candidates.

But passionate support from them and other Yakima Valley residents has created more local visibility for Paul's campaign than for some more mainstream candidates.

Paul is a guy they'd never heard of a year ago, and who is given no chance of winning by any mainstream political commentators. He's an obstetrician-
gynecologist who wants to get U.S. troops out of Iraq right away, abolish the Internal Revenue Service, eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and return to the long-gone gold standard.

His local supporters recognize and freely acknowledge that some of Paul's positions are far from the political center. They know that their man, who began his third and most-recent stint as a congressman in 1997, doesn't appeal to mainstream Republicans or Democrats.

"That is exactly what I like about him," said Lee, a 45-year-old refrigeration service worker from Selah. "I can honestly tell you that I love this guy."

Lee is not alone. Driven by Internet "meetup" groups, bloggers and grass-roots activists, Rep. Paul's campaign has become one of the more visible locally and around the country, certainly among the so-called second-tier candidates.

There are Ron Paul signs on Yakima street corners and Ron Paul magnets on cars. Once a week, his supporters stand on Yakima sidewalks holding Ron Paul banners. Two dozen people have joined the Yakima Ron Paul group at meetup.com, and they've met 11 times already as of Friday. The Ellensburg Ron Paul group has 16 members and has met three times.

Paul's surging popularity nationwide over the past few months is the latest example of the "netroots" phenomenon, by which grass-roots campaigns are waged online not by the candidate but by fervent supporters in the blogosphere. The Internet allows people to build a coalition in cyberspace and raise money in ways they couldn't a decade ago, said David Domke, a University of Washington professor and Democratic campaign consultant who studies political communication.

Paul, with about $10.3 million raised so far, is still far behind the $63 million raised by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney through October, or the $47 million raised by former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani.

But in a move that caught the attention of political insiders, on Nov. 5 Paul's online backers organized a one-day donation blitz of $4.2 million, a one-day high for all 2008 presidential candidates.

Bush Keeps Up Pressure on Congress to Approve War Spending Bill

Bush Keeps Up Pressure on Congress to Approve War Spending Bill
By Margaret Besheer
Washington
01 December 2007


President Bush is urging Congress to pass several pieces of legislation when the lawmakers return from a long holiday recess next week. Among them, the president is pushing for funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. From Washington, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more.

Congress returns Monday to what the president says is "a lot of unfinished business."

President Bush speaks as he and Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda make joint statements, 16 Nov 2007
President Bush, 16 Nov 2007 (file photo)
"Members of Congress now have only a few weeks left before they head home for the [Christmas] holidays," he said. "Before they do so, I urge them to do their job: fund our troops, protect our citizens, provide taxpayers relief, and responsibly fund our government."

In his weekly radio address Saturday, the president urged lawmakers to renew anti-terrorism legislation that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor domestic phone calls without court permission, as long as one end of the conversation is reasonably believed to be outside the United States. The Bush administration also wants congress to protect telecommunications companies from lawsuits for having turned over telephone records of Americans.

Mr. Bush is also pushing Congress to pass bills that fund the daily operations of the U.S. government and limit the tax burden on middle class Americans.

But the president's top priority is to win congressional approval of his $196 billion request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The money is for the 2008 fiscal year, which began October 1. The president and the Pentagon argue that further delays in approving these funds would force cuts in military operations across the United States and ultimately compromise the war on terror.

The Democrats have offered to pass $50 billion of the president's requested $196 billion, but on condition that most U.S. troops leave Iraq by next December. The president says he will veto any legislation linked to those terms.

Virginia Senator Jim Webb, a Democrat, just returned from a trip to Iraq. He told reporters Saturday that warnings about military cuts are just "gamesmanship" on the part of the Pentagon, and that there will be no negative impact if Congress continues the debate on the war funding bill for several more weeks.

"You are asked to appropriate programs that have not been debated, and they are all lumped together, and so supposedly you are shutting down the military men and women if you vote against anything that comes out of the administration," he said. "So you begin to understand the frustration in the Congress."

The Democrats have said they will not give the president a free hand to pay for the war.