Ron Paul Raises $6M In 24 Hours
Campaign's "Money Bomb" Raises Money On The 234th Anniversary Of The Boston Tea Party
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Republican presidential hopeful, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, responds during the Des Moines Register Republican Presidential Debate in Johnston, Iowa, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007. (AP)
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Called a "Money Bomb," the goal was to raise as much money as possible on the Internet in one day. The campaign's previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million.
At midnight EST, donations were over $6 million, according to the campaign Web site. Those donations are processed credit card receipts, said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton. Benton said the median donation is about $50 in the fundraiser, which was the idea of Paul supporters who are not officially connected to the campaign.
Trevor Lyman, a Paul supporter who is traveling the country following the Ron Paul blimp, said the date of the fundraiser coincides with the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
The Ron Paul blimp is an aerial billboard emblazoned on one side with "Who is Ron Paul? Google Ron Paul." The other side reads "Ron Paul Revolution." The blimp, another grass-roots effort, was in Chester, S.C., on Sunday, and organizers hope to get it to New Hampshire before the Jan. 8 primary there.
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See all 109 CommentsMoney at the bottom line is God almighty.
Note, the colonists did not turn their lives over to private corporations. They instead established a government, a representative democracy.
For decades the right winger multinational private corporate libertarians have been attacking the representative government through a slick sleazy marketing scheme riddled with grand labels such as "free market" "freedom" "privatization".
The failure of people to see how the corporate charters are the actual threat to free society, not a government that effectively represents the people of the United States will bring not new world order, but old world order. Puffed up or emaciated right wingers has brought this country down. Putting another in officer will be the nail in the coffin.
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against the Iraq war.
CHECK THIS OUT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuzMYIXhTE
The fact is there are rules and regulations currently present and right wingers maintain them but these regulations work to restrain common citizens while "freedoms" are granted corporations and those who are at the head of them though many of the CEOs of them too find themselves consumed by still another corporation in the form of a hostile takeover.
Eventually there will be one corporation and the shareholders will appoint the CEO the king directly accountable to the largest shareholder. For fundamentalist christians this is 666. Their preacher men have led many of them astray. Wolves dressed in 3 piece suits.
Before making such glaringly false accusations, do your own homework on Dr. Paul. When you discover what he really stands for, you may just find yourself part of the revolution.
In other words only wealthy politicians or politicians accountable to the wealthy who fund and support them can afford to be a congressman.
Chevron in Argentina, the latest cover-up of note. If an individual did to poor villagers in Argentina what this oil company has done such person would be rightly identified a sociopath.
What does Ron Paul voting against net neutrality mean to anyone?
Ron Paul is loyal to his funding source. Through the disguise that tricks the foolish, he presents as the good guy who doesn''t take the peoples tax money. Well he''s taking money from a source and he represents that source''s interests not the collective good of U.S. citizens.
That "air"money has worked well for Ron Paul and his private constituency.
In which one of your dreams did the colonists set up a representative democracy?
"""Note, the colonists did not turn their lives over to private corporations. They instead established a government, a representative democracy."""
Maybe you should bone up on history before spouting off. Read the federalist paper #10. Long live the Republic! Have you ever said the pledge of allegiance?
"And to the republic for which it stands"
What does that mean?
Anyone care to address the implications of that one?
In which one of your dreams did the colonists set up a representative democracy?
"""Note, the colonists did not turn their lives over to private corporations. They instead established a government, a representative democracy."""
Maybe you should bone up on history before spouting off. Read the federalist paper #10. Long live the Republic! Have you ever said the pledge of allegiance?
"And to the republic for which it stands"
Posted by rexorooter
So what are we then? A board game of monopoly coming to an end? Right Wingers and bible thumpers are bringing us back to old world tyranny at a rapid rate through their allegiance to the almighty dollar, capitalism and corporate tyranny.
I asked you a question about you dreams?
Which source talks about your colonists and their democracy?
Death to Tyrants and Fascists!!!
Power to the American People!!!
Ron Paul for President!!!
Posted by veteran71 at 09:18 AM : Dec 17, 2007
You are spouting Leninism, if you are talking Ron Paulisms he is as looney as you.
A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
Republic:
A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
Right wingers like to distract with plays on words or talking points attempting to cover truth with a smoke screen.
Where the rubber hits the road is where it counts and Ron Paul and corporate libertarians are death to the common interests of the majority of the human race on this planet.
YES!!! Dr. Paul IS loyal to his funding source -- individual American citizens who support our constitution and returning to the type of government our founding fathers instituted.
I asked you a question about you dreams?
Which source talks about your colonists and their democracy?
Posted by rexorooter
Your attempt to denigrate, belittle and dismiss the voice of a fellow american is representative of the bullying of right wing fascism since Reagan and the ensuing extremist right wing media that pounded the air waves with the out of control abuses of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and a battery of others.
YES!!! Dr. Paul IS loyal to his funding source -- individual American citizens who support our constitution and returning to the type of government our founding fathers instituted.
Posted by gauka
Yes, and with your money he voted against net neutrality and not one person in here. Not one cult member has the talking points to address the implications of this action.
PS Why is there that little box on government forms that asks you, "Are you a U.S. Citizen? Seems redundant, doesn''t it. Maybe you should look into the real meaning behind that little box before you put a check in it.
Ron Paul is a corporatist, a global one, many are led astray by the same right wing rhetoric that led to the current mess.
Ron Paul has been there right alongside, nursing off the party that hosted the neo cons and it''s big rise with bullying arrogant big talk rhetoric starting with Reagan.
Just how powerful are we the people to unbridled consolidating private wealth?
The U.S. citizen "corporation" as referred to when functioning effectively allows for one vote for every man and woman who is a member or citizen.
Global corporations allow one vote for every share owned. The more shares owned by select special interests the more those special interests rule. This is where free market deregulation is taking the U.S. Look how the so called "american" corporations behave in foreign nations? The less regulation the more ruthless and disregarding of the people they behave. It''s been the local governments that have brought what protections have existed but these are failing against private corporations incessant pressure and hostile takeovers and bribing of government leadership. Multinational corporate "america" plays on the prejudices of the people with slogans of patriotism but in reality does not respect national boundaries.
good time for an outsider
wish him luck!
We the people should be lobbying our legislators. Corporate lobbyists should be disallowed from gaining such access to Washington which gives corporate concerns more rights and representation than collective citizen concerns
Ever hear of deregulation? It''s been happening over the past 2.5 decades starting with the rise of the neo con movement. The lobbyists are in Washington to buy the politicians because the government has been weakened by right wingers who have increased their access to Washington. Someday the corporations won''t need Washington D.C. at all. They will become the government consolidating and merging into smaller numbers with no accountability to humanity that was meant to be served by them.
Corporations are morphing into entities that demand to have their interests served whether or not at the expense of human beings. More at the expense since there are far more losers than winners in a world of private corporate tyranny and eventual loss to all of humanity.
good time for an outsider
wish him luck!
Posted by neoconRcrazy
OUTSIDER? How do you figure? He''s been in Washington a mighty long time there bud denying the need for a tax payer salary cause he''s bought by big money interests.
The rhetoric flows. He''s against net neutrality and not one person in here can address the implications of this.
Are you kidding me? Have you even researched Ron Paul? Lobbyists don''t even knock on his door.
Might want to fact check before you post.
It is time to put someone in the whitehouse who is NOT beholden to the Israeli lobby, defense contractors, big oil or anyone else EXCEPT the American people!!
I''m sorry, but I''m completely missing your logic. If the government is weakened, what purpose would corporate lobbying serve? Government should be powerless to assist in corporate hegemony. Let business live or die according to the will of the consumer.
here%u2019s an independent photographer who shot close up footage of the Pentagon on 9/11 %u2013 watch it and hear what he has to say %u2013 then ask yourself %u201Cwhere%u2019s the plane?%u201D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYWIT9TSJPE
more damning Pentagon evidence here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAwtmun_aj8&feature=related
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=869bO4jI1po&feature=related
I''''m sorry, but I''''m completely missing your logic. If the government is weakened, what purpose would corporate lobbying serve? Government should be powerless to assist in corporate hegemony. Let business live or die according to the will of the consumer.
Posted by videogeek1
Government is weakened by having corporate insiders in high office and lobbying those who are not corporate insiders. I said weakened not obliterated. When the corporate lobbyists are no longer present of their own will you''ll know your government has been obliterated.
I think you''re faith in consumerism is a common distortion that superficially sounds logical but is far from it. Besides, how sick that living is perceived to be built around the market place and consumerism in our material planned obsolescent wasteful system. I mean, someone needs to put down their coffee and recognize how perverse that really is.
GHBTo
Posted by unity3111
Removing citizen limits on private corporations who are determining the speed and flow of the internet means they will advance their private causes and do as has happened to the airwaves...flood the media with right wing fascism in the form of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and a battery of demons unleashed. The web will be destroyed by a foolish citizenry that does not recognize that global corporations do not hold the common good of the citizenry in mind. The bottom line is a ruthless quest to increase the bottom line of profit through snake oil marketing scams. An intellectual dishonesty has become part of a growing culture of corruption. Minds have been perverted by the ideology of business idolatry.
Absolute Non-Discrimination: Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu: "Network neutrality is best defined as a network design principle. The idea is that a maximally useful public information network aspires to treat all content, sites, and platforms equally."[2]
Cardozo Law School professor Susan Crawford: insists that a neutral Internet must forward packets on a first-come, first served basis, without regard for Quality of Service considerations.
Advocates of "non-neutrality" regulation (or allowance) point to advantages with respect to rationing what perhaps will be scarce bandwidth. Indeed, the topic was opened because of what may be a substantial increase in bandwidth consumption as multi-media uses of the Internet expand. Carriers want content providers who support bandwidth-intensive multi-media Internet traffic to pay the carriers a premium to support further network investments.
A Wall Street Journal op-ed described the amount of data produced globally in exabytes, calling the potential bandwidth crunch the "exaflood" [14].
At times Internet traffic has already caused Internet services to fail (see congestion collapse and slashdot effect). In such cases, high latency connections result in interruption of services. An environment in which a content provider can provide a guaranteed quality of service to all customers could allow independent content providers to compete with traditional content providers in areas such as television and music broadcast, telephony, and video on demand.
Thats right, a grass roots organization, a man who was told he doesn''t stand a chance, now holds the record for most money raised for his campaign in one day. =)
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