Thanks for gettings out there...no one else seems to mention it.

"If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."

Lolz! Jesus, this guy's good. If he doesn't become President of the United States, he should work as a criminologist or an ethnographer.

This is completely untrue:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=377205

Even if he didn't write those comments himself, they were still mailed out in a newsletter bearing his name, and he took his sweet time in repudiating them -- assuming, that is, the unsourced references in your link are correct.

So forgive me if I don't find this sufficient grounds to exculpate Paul just yet.

Ron Paul is a wackjob who thinks the U.S. is being run by the “One World Government”:

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Congressman Ron Paul Admits Conspiracy to Create World Government
911Exposed.com

Congressman Paul: " He asked if there was an international conspiracy to overthrow our government. The answer is "Yes". I think there are 25,000 individuals that have used offices of powers, and they are in our Universities and they are in our Congresses, and they believe in One World Government. And if you believe in One World Government, then you are talking about undermining National Sovereignty and you are talking about setting up something that you could well call a Dictatorship - and those plans are there!..."

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He’s also a contributor to anti-Semitic left rags like “Counterpunch,” and highly lauded at the most vile anti-Semitic right-wing websites such as the fascist “National Vanguard.”

Other aspects of Paul that should raise the ire of genuine progressives: he was an anti-choice OB/GYN before getting into politics, is against immigration and immigrants’ rights and he has a very poor record on labor issues.

He’s also a bigot.

Back in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots, his “Ron Paul Survival Report” newsletter, had an article titled “Los Angeles Racial Terrorism.” In it, Paul described African-Americans as "barbarians" and called the rioters "thugs and revolutionaries who hate Euro-American civilization". In another article he wrote, “I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city [Washington D.C.] are semi- criminal or entirely criminal.” The same article blames “liberals” and “the welfare state for telling African-Americans that they ‘are entitled to something for nothing.’”

This does not quilify Ron Paul as a Racist, he sead one thing in the seventies and he's a Racist becuese of it?, have a look at what some other Politicians and Public Figuers say evan to this day!.

Ron Paul for President

Jerry, he said/wrote these things in the 1990s, not the 1970s. For many of us, that is not that long ago. You may like Paul, but an extremist, anti-Semitic, anti-black and anti-Asian candidate may not fly too well in some quarters.

Even if he wrote those words, he isn't saying them now and doesn't stand for or propose any policies that would racially discriminate - THAT is what matters most for a politician. For example, he could loath Muslims for all I care, but he doesn't bomb them (unlike the so-called Christians and Jews). There are far worse things than saying or believing something questionable, and they usually involve actually doing something because of your questionable beliefs. So keep bitching, you impotent PC whiners.

It's clear he didn't write these things. He said he never wrote these things. Never before or since in over 20 years in politics have any similar quotes ever been attributed to him.

To try to label a man a racist because of words written years ago by a staffer who was fired after the incident is just wrong particularly when he has never spoken such words or expressed such a viewpoint.

You honestly think a libertarian would deny anyone any rights?

"You honestly think a libertarian would deny anyone any rights?"

Yes. And an honest libertarian would not put it past any politician, regardless of their party affiliation. Paul is not a libertarian, he's an isolationist Republican in the mold of Pat Buchanan who he *has* worked to deny people their rights, women in particular.

After all, didn't one of your own contributors Joey Kurtzman write that Jews should be less sensitive about such ethnic 'criticisms' like the ones made by Kevin MacDonald? Is this not an application of 'Derbyshires Law'?

As Kurtzman wrote:
Even interested non-scientists like you and me, John, have learned that human populations have different distributions of various alleles (variants of a certain gene); that some of these variations between groups result in different distributions of biological traits such as Tay-Sachs disease, sickle cell anemia, and so on; and that we need prepare ourselves for the very real possibility that the list also includes psychological and behavioral traits.

Is this exactly what Paul is talking about?

Why the double standard when it comes to Jews, or is that certain members of your staff have decidedly anti-Jewish views.

He's the only one telling the truth about the mideast and our terrible policies. Like Ron Paul says, they have us scared of villagers in 2nd world countries who don't even have a navy or air force. The U.S.s.R. was a threat...Iraq is not a threat worthy of $2 billion dollars a week or one U.S. life! It's time for us to come home and quit messing with the mideast. Remember post WWI, anyone??????? The Brits invaded Iraq and occupied it for oil...when they realized they couldn't keep it without one million troops there full time...they came home. We will too. It's time NOW!

I know it sounds like a lame excuse for Ron Paul to claim that those comments were written by an errant staffer and he didn't review them before they were published. But I don't think the man's a racist. These comments are isolated aberrances in the congressman's record. Besides, he can't control where he's being touted; Reich-wing racists were all for the Democrats when they supported segregation and moved en masse to the Republican Party when Truman started moving away from it. Does that make the Republican Party a racist institution? I don't think it does.

Regardless of how weak Paul's defense may sound, I think the fact that it is a complete anomaly in his record and blatantly contradicts his stated beliefs speaks for itself: Ron Paul is not a racist, and those comments were not actually made by him.

I don't see any type of racist behavior by him. Anyways, he has my vote come 2008.

First of all let me say: I love Libertarianism. It’s a great political-economic philosophy. FOR WEALTHY WHITE MALE SMALL-TOWN SLAVEHOLDING AMERICA CIRCA 1840...!

Second. If Ron Paul isn’t a John Bircher then he’s an incredible simulation.

Watch "The Money Masters"

Watch "Why We Fight"

Check out NAFTA, CAFTA and CODEX. Ron Paul wants to get rid of these laws that giant corporations pay to push through that screw over poor and middle class Americans.

He wants to cut all foreign spending except for UNICEF. We have supported dozens of coups and dictators over the past 50 years. Ron Paul wants to put an end to that. We can save thousands of American lives and lives around the world if we elect Ron Paul.

John Stossel pointed out most of the money we spend on foreign aid goes to corrupt foreign goverments http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=1955664&page=1

do the research, he is no racist, far from it. wevs1, he is not anti-immigrant,
he is against illegal immigration. do you know the differance? quit watching the
msm.

The "second world" stopped existing after the fall of the Soviet Union.

You don't need to pull Dr. Paul apart based on these statements.  One either agrees with his views on world, domestic, and economic affairs- or one does not.  He is so different from all the other candidates, that one first must decide how they feel about the larger, more pressing matters, not these issues of wording.  Really... when you are talking about the Earth-changing phenomena of restoring America to what it was always supposed to stand for, who cares that he said Blacks are fast?  Give me a break.  That this site has devoted time and space to this article gives us a view as to how the site feels about his policies, but instead of having the courage to dispute his policy, the article attempts this.         

I guess it's not OK to "swift-boat" John Kerry, but it is OK to swift-boat someone when it suits your purpose.  How sad.  Ron Paul is a true American Patriot.  Every political position he takes is based on the principle of Constitutional government and respect for the liberty of the individual.  Not the "white" individual, or the black, brown, yellow or red individual.  Just the individual, and for that he gets labelled a racist?