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There, I said it, publicly.

I usually don’t support any Republican candidate in any election, mostly because the modern-day Republican party is not what the party founders envisioned it to be, it’s been hijacked by the neo-conservatives.

But I openly support Ron Paul for President of the United States.

Why?

For one big reason — personal freedoms and civil liberties. I’m not scared of any criminal, foreigner or jihadi terrorist… I’m scared of the United States Government.  To me, that’s the real threat and there doesn’t seem to be anyone else willing to step up to the powers that be and fight back this monster of a Federal government.

Just the other day the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1955 by a landslide 404-4 vote.  This legislation, titled “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007″, has the power to criminalize anyone who uses intellectual thought to coerce the Federal government.

Intellectual thought is going to be illegal?! What? Doesn’t this sound like something you’d expect to see in a fascist dictatorship like post 2003 Iraq? Like Nazi Germany? Like Stalin’s Russia? Like the United States?

The later doesn’t belong in this list, but yet nobody seems to be doing anything about it. a 404-4 vote in the House of Representatives and nobody is taking to the streets to protest this while it’s still legal to protest. Couple this bill in with the many that have become law over the past 6 years and it looks like the United States is heading towards a police state where we will be forced to show our papers at every turn.

This is not the United States that my parents handed down to me, and it’s not the United States that our Founding Father’s handed to all of us.

Enough about Ron Paul for now.

I also like Barack Obama. More consistent with party-lines, he is a Democrat, I am a pretty loyal Democrat so it’s natural. I like Obama because he’s not a member of the good ole’ boy club. He wasn’t rich until a year or two ago. In fact, he was still paying off his student loans as of last year!

He obviously doesn’t have the same stance as Dr. Paul, but he sure does have the capability to bring much needed, actual, change to the District of Columbia.

It’s a bit more realistic that Obama will become the next President rather than Ron Paul, but I will support either of them in the general election and I support both of them in their party’s nomination.

This video is great, it truly is. Watch it through the end.

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I just learned that Ron Paul, a Republican Congressman from Texas, has been invited to a debate by Nancy Reagan that will be held in the Reagan Presidential Library on May 3rd. MSNBC will moderate and televise this event starting at 5pm EST. The debate will also be simulcast by politico.com to give citizens the opportunity to submit questions online.

This is great. I love Ron Paul as a candidate, I truly do. I don’t think he will be able to win because his issues are not the issues that focus groups say are the ones to run on. He is a modern day Thomas Jefferson and is a true Republican in the sense of small-government.

He is also a strict constitutionalist, even voting against giving Rosa Parks the Congressional Medal of Honor because the10th amendment states that congress shall have no authority that is not given to them by the constitution. So What did Representative Ron Paul do? He voted against it and gave $100 towards purchasing the medal and asked other representative’s to do the same. His motto is the “Tax Payers Best Friend”, and he is.

He is also a protector of civil liberties, if you keep reading my blog you will know I’m a stickler for this. He is staunchly against the Patriot Act, the Real ID Act, and others.

Back to the subject, having him in these debates will bring these topics to the forefront for the American people to grasp. Since nobody else will be talking about this, I think this is great. We probably don’t care for these issues because we are not aware of them, and with him having a podium to tell us all, it might just bring us some light.

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This is one of the best political attack ads I have ever seen. And best of it all, it doesn’t seem to have come from Barack’s campaign.

For those of you not familiar with this ad, it aired in 1984 during the Super Bowl and it was from Apple, showing somebody “sticking it to the man”. Basically with the notion that Apple would be changing the world of computing. Well some really talented person edited it to be a Barack Obama attack ad on Hillary Clinton.

Here is the original ad from Apple:

Here is the edited Barack Obama ad:

“The compelling ‘Hillary 1984′ video recently introduced on YouTube represents ‘a new era, a new wave of politics … because it’s not about Obama,’ said Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank on politics and new media. ‘It’s about the end of the broadcast era.’”

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