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With McCain pretty much a lock, I hear Republicans will be asking for that Democratic voting ballot to pick who they think would be the easier opponent for McCain.

Our forefathers are rolling over in their graves.

So Fox News Channel is alienating Ron Paul from the spot light, but thats to be expected.  The "We Report, You Decide" Network has often leaned not just right, but FARRRRRRRR right.  For those of you have have seen the documentary "OutFoxed" I don't even have to express my distaste for the "journalism" that is featured on that channel.  But excluding Ron Paul from a Republican "Forum" (they're clarifying now that it isn't a "Debate") is absolutely reproachable and is an OBVIOUSLY OVERT example of their network's slanted stance.

Why is it so obvious?  Where is the bread and butter of Television?  Viewers.  Ron Paul made 18 million dollars in campaign funds last quarter.  More than any other Republican Candidate.  He also did it with contributions from over 58,000 supporters.  It was done WITHOUT his campaign organizing it.

It is a very poor business decision to exclude such a popular candidate from a "forum" when he is as popular as Ron Paul.  Even if it is not represented in the mainstream polls, it surely is in straw polls.  This move only leads to more questions to just how "Fair and Balanced" they really are...

I mean come on.  6 million dollars in one day?  From the general public?  Now last I checked... voting is free.  But the same American public that won't even get out of their homes and get to the polling station donated their hard earned money to support Ron Paul.

Yes, it does say something.  And it makes me feel better about this country.  Even if he doesn't win the election, it does tell me that there are a significant amount of people in the United States that still believe in what our country was founded on.

I donated yesterday, and I encouraged others to do so as well.  Thank you America, and thank you Ron Paul. 

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Who was your favorite, and why?


Huckabee won, in my honest opinion.

I'm not religious.  I believe for many its an instrument to perpetuate their own agendas and they bend whatever scripture or text they can to fit their ideas to their preordained theory and agenda.

However, I do not believe that is the case with this man.  Out of the religions I have studied, I do believe that Christianity does have its morality in the right place in most instances.  I am also happy to hear that as a politician he is willing to disagree and come to a consensus on American Policy.  That means that he recognizes that the Constitution trumps the Bible in American Politics, or at least thats how I've decided to interpret it.

I do feel that Ron Paul was not given the type of attention that he's deserved after the accomplishments he's made in his campaign, I also think that it was by design.  This debate was sponsored by the Florida Republican Party, and Ron Paul is not popular with Neo-Con Republicans, namely those that benefit from a prolonging of the Military Industrial Complex.

I will donate to Ron Paul on the 16th of December, as I hope anyone that supports him will.  It is not only with our vote we should speak, but also with our wallet. 

I will donate to and vote for only one other Candidate if Ron Paul if he does not win the primary, and that is Huckabee. 

If by some "miracle" they are running mates, I will leave Houston to campaign for them officially in any and every possible way.

... making the tobacco lobby happy?

Thats right, where was a large chunk of the money going to come from to pay for the children health care coverage program increase? A bigger tax on tobacco. Bush didn't veto one spending bill while there was a Republican Congress, and this Bill was largely bipartisan.

What else are we in store while this lame duck doesn't have to worry about re-election, and only that he fulfills his obligation to the corporations that spent money on his previous elections?

The story: 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2983
36,00.html

 

Basically students in Boulder, Colorado are walking out of their school during the pledge of allegiance and saying their own version of a pledge of allegiance to America.

I can see both sides of the argument of taking God out of the pledge of Allegiance. On one hand, it wasn't always there.  In fact, the part of me that was raised a Catholic is DISGUSTED with how America inserted God into the pledge in the 1950's as systematic attack on "Godless Communism."  Politicizing faith is disturbing.  In this day and age, as hard as it is to keep faithful, for a country to use it in political aggression is sad, and irresponsible.

After all, we are a constitutional republic, and that means that when something is expressed in the constitution, it is immune to the whim of the majority.  The majority can change the constitution, but that has been very rare in our history.  The constitution holds that there will be a separation between church and state.  The opinion of the current popular system of belief shouldn't have influence on how we show our allegiance and respect for the formed more perfect union.

 

On the other hand, its already there.  Sure its offensive to secularists that don't believe in any God, but in a time of such moral bankruptcy, I'm not ready for the masses to lose faith, and even more importantly fear of their God.  Acknowledging that people need not only pledge their allegiance to this nation, but that even this nation is not immune to their God is still a very necessary action, for better or worse.


 

STRONG LANGUAGE IN THE YOUTUBE LINK BELOW.

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From AP:

Student Arrested, Tasered at Kerry Event

3 hours ago

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A University of Florida student was Tasered and arrested Monday when he attempted to speak at a forum with U.S. Sen. John Kerry during a question and answer session, university officials said.

Andrew Meyer, 21, asked Kerry, D-Mass., why he did not contest the 2004 presidential election, which he lost to President Bush, and why there had been no moves to impeach Bush.

"He apparently asked several questions — he went on for quite awhile — then he was asked to stop," university spokesman Steve Orlando said. "He had used his allotted time. His microphone was cut off then he became upset."

While as many as four police officers tried to remove Meyer from the forum, he yelled for help and asked "What did I do?" Minutes after Meyer started speaking, he was Tasered.

Meyer was charged with resisting an officer and disturbing the peace, according to Alachua County jail records. No bond had been set. Meyer was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning, a jail official said.

It was not known if Meyer had an attorney.

Orlando said university police would conduct an internal investigation on the incident.

"The police department does have a standard procedure for when they use force, including when they use a Taser," Orlando said. "That is what the internal investigation would address — whether the proper procedures were followed, whether the officers acted appropriately."

Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Before the young man got juiced, he did ask some rather interesting questions.

Are the points he made prior to his rather forceful escort from the Q&A now given less validation due to his lack of tact in his response to the overreaction by the UPD, or were these questions given more attention thanks to his intense, may be it considered by some as disrespectful, mode of questioning?