Where Politics And Video Games Collide

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Hey actually Paul has the best ideas for helping people caught in a bad situation.

Paul advocates re-focusing our national defenses on protecting our borders and not corportate-welfarism-Empire-building. In that respect, I feel he supports the troops and strengthening our national security more than any other candidate.

The money saved from slowing down our British-Empire-dopplegangerism would make things like Social Security and Medicaid solvent again.

Paul has said often that though he would prefer to improve the economy in ways that help less people be dependent on government aid, those programs are the absolute last on his list of programs he's uncomfortable with. This is the polar opposite of warmongers like Bush who need trillions for world conquest and collateral damage but can't spare some change for programs like S-Chip.

Finally, all this crap about Paul being a closet racist is simply crap. It's the McCain's-black-baby whisper campaign of 2008. (McCain and his wife had adopted a baby from overseas whom they loved and took good care of and Bush operatives turned it into a very effective anti-McCain lie amongst the closet racists in SC in 2004) It has been disproven again and again. The NYT ran an official retraction two days ago saying everything they checked out proved that these are decades old slanders. What is clear is that Paul is perhaps the least racist candidate running. Other than Obama who has been really impressive about not biting when haters pull the race card, I've been most impressed with Paul. Paul doesn't pull the anti-Arab card, the anti-Jew card, the white supremacist crap, or even the hispanics-are-watering-down-our-culture crap when he gets all hardline about illegal immigration. If you listen to the man himself - and not a couple fringe wackos who think they agree with him - you're likely to be impressed at that.
Anyways, I'm also surprised at the lack of Paul defense on this site. Maybe he is simply under-represented amongst gamers. That's cool with me. As much as I like the guy, I'm not sure I'd want a bunch of spam chat about politics on my server neither. But if they're cool about the 1 morning thing maybe it'll be not-so-big-a-deal. (Seems most guilds are more active at night).
My 2 cents. And nah I don't really care whether they're backed by gold or not . . . I haven't studied that issue enough. Mostly I like Paul 'cuz he's into freedom, against collateral damage and sending our 'bravest and best' into questionable enagements, backs up his craziest ideas with really interesting arguments (like the whole gold standard stuff), and just seems genuine - which is way refreshing to me. Plus he's been in Congress for 20 years and seems the best read of any of the guys (or gals) on our actual founding principles.