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_____ ConjuntoflyerL.jpg <http://www.veniceartscouncil.org/upload/ConjuntoflyerL.jpg> _____ * * * From: David McReynolds [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: What the commentators are missing about the Iowa straw poll So Michelle Bachman won the straw poll in Iowa (with less than 30%). I've watched MSNBC, CNN, and FOX and all focus on the Bachman win and ignore the remarkable showing Ron Paul, who came in second, one % point below Bachman. Bachman is nuts but she is an attractive, religious, polarizing figure who had been expected to win. Ron Paul, the libertarian, is not nuts, even though I think his economic ideas are from the 18th century. I watched the debate and Ron Paul stood out for taking on military spending, foreign bases, and even (incredibly) defending Iran's right to pursue a nuclear bomb. I think he was right on that, even though it was a strange thing to hear - in fact the problem isn't "Iran getting a nuclear bomb" - it is the fact we already have a lot of nuclear bombs in that region (Israel, Pakistan, India, Russia) and it was to Ron Paul's credit that he hammered home the hard fact we are hearing once again the same warnings we heard about Iraq. His statements in that debate were, in the context of a highly militarized society, radical. In the context of the Republican Party's right wing, which long ago fell in love with the military, Ron Paul was a heretic. Yet he came within one percentage point of beating Bachman for first place. That is the story the media seems determined not to hear. David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
