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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:22:11 AM
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Praising the left-wing Occupy Wall Street movement is an unusual move for a Republican presidential candidate,



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:22:54 AM
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Paul praised the Occupy movement



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:23:36 AM
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Obama praised the Occupy movement.



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:24:13 AM
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Pelosi praised the Occupy movement.



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:24:34 AM
From: joseffy2 Recommendations  Respond to of 224705
 
The US communist party praised the Occupy movement.



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:24:57 AM
From: joseffy2 Recommendations  Respond to of 224705
 
Michael Moore praised the Occupy movement.



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:27:44 AM
From: joseffy2 Recommendations  Respond to of 224705
 
David Letterman praised the Occupy movement.



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:28:18 AM
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. George Clooney praised the Occupy movement.



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:29:37 AM
From: joseffy2 Recommendations  Respond to of 224705
 
Jane Fonda praised the Occupy movement.



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:30:08 AM
From: joseffy2 Recommendations  Respond to of 224705
 
Al Gore praised the Occupy movement.



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 10:32:05 AM
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Ron Paul, Obama, Pelosi, Jane Fonda praise the Occupy movement.



To: FJB who wrote (120848)12/30/2011 3:23:10 PM
From: joseffy1 Recommendation  Respond to of 224705
 
Ron Paul: Know Who’s Really Behind Islamic Terrorism? The Jews.

by Leon H. Wolf Friday, December 30th
redstate.com

One of the more insane claims in Ron Paul’s newsletters was that the Israelis were behind the WTC bombings in 1993:

Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.

This claim is of course so ridiculous and absurd that even Paul has to protect himself by claiming that “a Jewish friend” told him about it. What a handy rhetorical device! If only Paul had had the foresight to couch all his racist remarks in the newsletters in this way, he wouldn’t have any problems right now! “As a black friend of mine once told me, 95% of all black people in DC are criminal or semi-criminal.” See how effective that is?

Dan has already covered some of the statements in Paul’s book (which he has not yet disavowed writing) that sound a lot like the newsletters he now disavows. One of the excerpts CNN did not cover was Paul’s section on the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut. You’ll never guess who Paul thinks was responsible:

The Middle East, in the last forty years, has soaked up billions of dollars in the name of American security and peace. The more we give Israel, the more we must give their Arab enemies. The height of this folly was vividly and tragically dramatized on October 23, 1981, with the killing of the 241 Marines in Beirut when their barracks were destroyed by radical Moslems. The terrorists probably were aided by Iran and supplied with explosives sold to them by Israel, originating from the United States and paid for by American taxpayers.

I have to admit that this is somewhat of a new spin on the usual anti-Israel conspiracy theory associated with this particular event. One thing that seems clear is that Paul’s natural instinct is to disbelieve that Muslim terrorism can exist unless those rascally Jews are behind it somehow.