Rat Says: Who would have thought MTV would offer the first fair Presidential forum for Dr Paul? Actually make it the second, BET offered a very fair format to all the candidates who had the integrity to attend. Thanks MTV, you surprised me.
-He is credited with the ideas for “Axis of Evil” speech. he originally called it “Axis of Hate”
-He wrote his last book before the one he’s promoting now with PNAC “Prince of Darkness” Richard Perle called “An End to Evil”
-He announced in October of ‘07 that he was signing on to be the Ghouliani campaign’s senior foreign policy advisor… even though he was trained in economics
-He comes from a family of journalists-both his mother and sister are respected journalists
- He drew inspiration for the “Axis of Evil” speech from FDR’s “Day of Infamy” speech after Pearl Harbor
-At 14 he worked for a Socialist candidate until reading Solzhenitzyn’s “Gulag Archipelago.” This relates to the swinging reactionaries of the neo-con ranks (Irving Kristol, David Horowitz), many of whom were pretty hard-core Marxists when they were young. The swing from one extreme and tyrannical obsession to another.
-He saw Saddam’s aggressive wars against Iran and Kuwait as resonant with Hitler and the Axis in WWII. So is it also resonant that as Prescott Bush aided the Nazis until his son helped take them out, H.W. aided Hussein until his soon took him out?
-He went to Yale-what does he think of secret societies and their influence on public life (JFK, Skull and Bones etc.)?
-Arianna Huffington, Gatekeeper Queen of the Progressive blogosphere will interview him
Rat Says: The only insane people in this video are the sociopaths that refuse to have a mature discussion about it. What are they so afraid of? David Frum suggest the questioners take stronger medication.
Oh and by the way David Frum, you’re about as consevative as Boy George.