Ron Paul on Real Time with Bill Maher, 5-25
 

Forgetting his "alleged" past foibles, watch this video and tell me where you disagree with ANYTHING he said last night.
I promise you he is the only "politician" to EVER tell the TRUTH about the US's involvement (CIA) with the Shah of Iran, Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B9KWISuvZWs

Thanks for the link, golfer. I can't vote for an anti-abortion candidate, especially one whose opposition to Medicaid insures that he won't be doing anything to make contraception more accessible to poor women (a policy that guarantees women's deaths since no one will ever be able to stop people having sex). That said, it's really refreshing to see a Republican candidate flatly stating the truth- that our interventionist policies in the Middle East over the last 50 years led to where we are today. I don't think there's an easy answer to that- we're still as oil-addicted as ever- but I think we can never find a way through these issues until we admit our own role in creating them. Gives me hope for the GOP. Now, if someone besides McCain (whom I can't stand) would actually speak out against torture, they'll really be getting somewhere...

Here's more excellent Bill Maher:

http://salon.com/opinion/feature/200...ter/index.html

Little snippets do not make a man. He has been around a long time. I look at this man in totality. And I thank him for his honesty. About Jews running the Congress, and blacks swiftly stealing his wallet. Oh yes, 95% of the Blacks in DC are criminals. 95%... he apparently counted.

Here's the best article I could find in terms of quoting him most directly:

http://www.chron.com/content/chronic...5/23/paul.html

He has been around before the internet. 85% not 95%. I missed by 10%. I wonder how this data was obtained. The deal is this: a guy appears to show some sensible comments on the war in Iraq and it grants him immunity from his earlier political statements. When you live in a state that a guy has been in for a long time, and you have followed him because of his more than strange views, it gets a bit upsetting when he is suddenly proclaimed sane because of a U-tube bit and a presidential bid.

You were correct in your earlier quote- here's his comment:

Paul continued that politically sensible blacks are outnumbered "as decent people." Citing reports that 85 percent of all black men in the District of Columbia are arrested, Paul wrote:

"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal," Paul said.