What an outstanding interview:

Hardball:

Kudlow:

Monetary System / Hedge funds:

Iraq / Oil / Living Within Our Means:

On Not Supporting the Republican Candidate:

Decalring War (The anger is directed at Romney):

I like seeing him directly attack the ‘front-runners’

Confidence in the Economy:

Unions:

Overall, I think he did pretty well. Dr. Paul definitely knows more about money and the economy than the other candidates and he proved it at this debate.

It looks like Dr. Paul’s supporters were quick to find the information for his campaign. It as though he needs about 4,000 signatures from across the state. Here is the e-mail I received this morning:

October 9, 2007

I have been inundated with emails and phone calls to help Ron Get on the ballot in PA.

THANK YOU.

It looks like we have a filing fee and about 2000 valid signatures to gather from different sections of the state. That means we need about 4000 signatures. We must do it all between Jan 22nd and Feb 12th.

I am sorting all your data so please be patient.

So for now, sit tight and we will be in touch VERY soon.

I am excited about the level of maturity and competency I have seen in the emails and phone calls.

For Liberty,

Mike McHugh
National Ballot Access Coordinator
Ron Paul 2008

More info to come when its available.

My heart goes out to the Brown’s and their family. Hopefully we can figure out where they have been taken so that people can get out there and protest. It is extremely saddening that these two will have to spend the next six years of their lives behind bars for such a ‘crime’ as keeping the money that they earned through their own hard work.

I received the following e-mail from the Ron Paul campaign earlier today:

October 8, 2007

We need volunteers to gather signatures to get Ron Paul on the ballot in PA.

We need to begin organizing right now.

I need to first hear from those who are able to devote some significant time to researching the regulations and organizing the other volunteers.

If you only have time to help gather signatures please DO NOT respond until the next email telling you who to contact.

HOWEVER, if you can help lead this effort please email me at Mike.McHugh@ronpaul2008.com or call me at (540) 635-9587.

Mike McHugh
National Ballot Access Coordinator
Ron Paul 2008

Anyone who has the spare time please call or send him an e-mail. When more information comes out about obtaining signatures I will be the first to let you know.

Very clever video. This could be a campaign ad.

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Transcript:

Bill Weir: “We turn to politics now and the story of a bonafide grassroots sensation. Ron Paul is the only Republican to post notable fundraising gains last quarter. [He] managed to pull in five million dollars, mostly online, a lot of it from the troops and it puts him on par with John McCain. [The] Congressman and doctor now joins us from Dulles airport in Virginia. Good morning to you sir.”

Ron Paul: “Good Morning. Thank you for having me.”

BW: “Our pleasure. So, why do you think you are the only Republican to call for an end to this war? To break from the president.”

RP: “Well, uh, I think its a message that people want to hear and, uh, I’ve been talking this way for a long time and now we’ve finally got some attention and the people are rallying behind us and they’re willing to put their money where their mouth is and the campaign keeps growing so we’re very pleased with whats happening.”

BW: “You don’t do any hand ringing when it comes to how we leave Iraq and what it means for our future and our relations in the Middle East.”

RP: “I-I’m sorry I didn’t that last — that sentence.”

BW: “[There is] so much concern about how we pull out and the Iraq we leave…”

RP: “Oh yeah, I don’t think its complicated. I mean, we just went in, we went in erroneously, we went in without the proper authority, we went in under a false pretense and all the conditions that were claimed didn’t exist — its just going badly. So I think we should just leave because staying there makes things worse. It endangers us, it increases the dangers of terrorism. There used to be six hundred Al-Qaeda [in Iraq], before we went in there, now theres probably six thousand. We don’t know. So everything we’re doing there is backfiring on us. It’s, uh, theres too many unintended consequences. So the very simple thing is that we ought to come home and mind our own business and save a lot of money and take care of problems here at home.”

BW: “You are an old school libertarian. You want to do away with Social Security, the Department of Education, the Drug Enforcement [Agency], and Abolish the IRS. How do you pay the bills then?”

RP: Well, you just spend a lot less money. You know, how did we pay our bills before 1913? We didn’t have a warfare state. We didn’t have an empire to take care of and we didn’t have a welfare state that was undermining our prosperity. So, I would say, why don’t we look to our history and look to our traditions and look to see how markets work and look to see how freedom works and pay attention to the Constitution? We really don’t need an income tax. I mean, if you didn’t have an income tax, you would have the same amount of income you had about seven years ago. So its not like its the end of the world. But you do have to cut back spending. The easiest place to cut back politically is overseas. We are spending over a trillion dollars overseas maintaining an empire which does nothing more than get us in trouble and undermines our national defense.”

BW: “Well you can see why you are a big hit on Facebook. You’re right below Paris Hilton and right above Mario Lopez on blog searches. How do you take this to the next level? How do you compete with the big money guys?”

RP: “Well we keep staying on the trajectory. I mean we’re, uh, we doubled the amount of money we raised last time. We had about 40,000 new donors. The average donation was forty dollars. So we keep doing this and we run a frugal campaign. The other campaigns are wasting their money. We have less personnel and we have more money in the bank than what we raised last quarter. We have five point three million dollars [in the bank]. If we keep doubling this we’re going to have plenty of money to advertise in the primaries. So I would say, keep doing what we’re doing. And the more people that here this message, the more they rally around us. It’s such a great message, the message of freedom and what America is all about and prosperity and hop.”

BW: “Thank you congressman, we appreciate your time. We’ll let you catch your plane”

RP: “Thanks you.”

BW: “Ron Paul. Thanks”

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