Daily Kos : Wall Street Was Once a Slave Market
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#ows #slave #market
Daily Kos : Wall Street Was Once a Slave Market
►http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/27/1049058/-Wall-Street-Was-Once-a-Slave-Market
#ows #slave #market
Daily Kos: Ron Paul’s racist newsletters aren’t going away
“You can run but you can’t hide” has to be taking on a whole new meaning for Ron Paul, as the latest Republican flavor-of-the-week learns that the racist newsletters published under his name in the 1990’s aren’t going away.
Last week, Paul walked out during an interview with CNN’s Gloria Borger after being asked about the newsletters, saying “I didn’t write them, I disavow them, That’s it.” Uh huh.
From an archive search by the Huffington Post, a few excerpts from newspapers articles, circa 1996:
Dr. Paul denied suggestions that he was a racist and said he was not evoking stereotypes when he wrote the columns. He said they should be read and quoted in their entirety to avoid misrepresentation. [...]
In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men.
“If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them,” Dr. Paul said.
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Daily Kos: Former Ron Paul staffer says Paul afraid to use gay man’s toilet, but not a homophobe
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This would be the definition of “disgruntled former staffer,” and damning with faint praise. Eric Dondero, a former Ron Paul congressional aide and presidential campaign staffer writes to set the record straight on his former boss, who isn’t an anti-Semite, but.... And who isn’t homophobic, but....
Is Ron Paul an Anti-Semite? Absolutely No. As a Jew, (half on my mother’s side), I can categorically say that I never heard anything out of his mouth, in hundreds of speeches I listened too over the years, or in my personal presence that could be called, “Anti-Semite.” No slurs. No derogatory remarks.
He is however, most certainly Anti-Israel, and Anti-Israeli in general. He wishes the Israeli state did not exist at all. He expressed this to me numerous times in our private conversations. His view is that Israel is more trouble than it is worth, specifically to the America taxpayer. He sides with the Palestinians, and supports their calls for the abolishment of the Jewish state, and the return of Israel, all of it, to the Arabs.
Again, American Jews, Ron Paul has no problem with.
Daily Kos: Evidence of Massive REPUBLICAN VOTER Fraud
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The larger question being ignored in the Newt didn’t qualify for the Va primary story is the OBVIOUS MASSIVE Voter Fraud that went into his failed effort. The process to qualify for the Va. Primary run off is to secure merely 10,000 signatures of registered Va voters .
It does not seem inconceivable that a candidate with a LONG history of “ethical lapses” would resort to such tactics.
It has been reported that Newt submitted roughly 11,000 plus signatures and the election officials were unable to confirm at least 10,000 of these were valid qualifying voters (we don’t yet know how many actual signatures were determined to be valid or false).
That means at a minimum that 9 to 10% of the signatures Newt’s proxies gathered were non-qualifying or fraudulent