Impeachment is our archaic constitutional remedy for such delicts. It was in the background when Johnson and Nixon were driven from office. Perhaps the past is prologue.
I certainly support Paul's position on the war(s). As a resident of Illinois, i probably don't have an effective vote in the upcoming election, unless there's a primary challenge.
I would e.g. have voted for McCarthy if I'd been in New Hampshire in 1968. --CGE
On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Max Sawicky wrote:
> Are you suggesting we should be supporting Ron Paul?
> Or supporting Obama's Republican opponent next year?
> Or something else?
>
> cheers.
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
> >wrote:
>
>> Did Woody Allen's movie suggest the implicit quotation from Scott
>> Fitzgerald?
>>
>> "... the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
>> opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the
>> ability to
>> function..." (The Crack-Up, 1936)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 20, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>>
>> C. G. Estabrook writes:
>>>
>>> It's even funnier (if that's quite the word) that there
>>>> are certain soi-disant leftists who are willing to 'give
>>>> a pass' to Obama to continue to kill people in AfPak
>>>> because Ron Paul has funny ideas about the gold standard.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't see anyone here giving a pass to Obama for his handling of
>>> the
>>> economy, let alone his fascination with continuing pointless,
>>> stupid,
>>> expensive, inhumane wars. Ron Paul should be ignored because he's a
>>> lunatic, even if lunatics can every once in a while say something
>>> you happen
>>> to agree with.
>>>
>>> It probably should be a test you have to take before joining lbo-
>>> talk: can
>>> you hold two separate throughts in your head at once? Or do you
>>> have to
>>> pick a single embodiment of all your positions simultaneously?
>>> It's not
>>> Obama, for sure; but Ron Paul isn't even on the short list.
>>>
>>> /jordan
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