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In reply to the discussion: Dennis Kucinich said all these nice things about Ron Paul. [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)They're blind when it comes to the fact Ron Paul is THE most conservative Republican since 1937, based on his voting record - more to the right than even Dick Cheney and Dubya Bush, and that's scary.
They're blind that he not only signed the Aghanistan AUMF, he also drafted and presented the 2001 Marque and Reprisal Act that gave Bush UNprecedented war powers to assassinate all those dark skinned Muslims, but they say he's had a change of heart and mind and he's anti-war. They're blind to the fact that he's a John Birch Society fanatic and that he continues to side with the Republicans on all the votes that matter, but he's more liberal than Obama. They're blind to his racist newsletters, and believe him on his word he didn't write them (right), and are appalled if you call him a racist and homophobe.
But on the other hand . . .
Obama is dragged over the coals for a helluva lot less by not making ACA progressive enough. That he's signed the NDAA into law - that does NOT expand powers since that already happened under the AUMF and Paul's Marque and Reprisal act, and I've come to believe, just like that black community and what's being discussed by the Nation, that the white progressives are all anti-Obama not for his policies (being that he's been the most progressive Democratic President since LBJ) but because of his skin color. And each day I see how they excoriate the president while turning a blind eye to Ron Pauls overt racism, anti-womanism, anti-Americanism, pro-States Rights, and pro-Big Businessism, and it only solidifies that ugly picture.