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Bob Schieffer Confronts Rep. Ron Paul: Do You Think Americans Caused 9/11?

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Rep. Ron Paul was on the receiving end of some of the hardest questions he has taken since the 2012 campaign for president began, perhaps not in small part due to his recurring appearance at the top of Republican polls. On today’s Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer pressed Rep. Paul to explain how his attitude towards American foreign policy did not amount to “saying Americans caused 9/11,” and how he would deal with Iran in a way that would guarantee safety.

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Schieffer began by asking whether Rep. Paul thought “9/11 happened because of actions that the United States took.” “I think there’s an influence, and that’s exactly what the 9/11 commission said,” Rep. Paul replied, “there is a connection.” That said, Rep. Paul opposed the attitude that terrorists “want to do us harm because we’re free and prosperous.” That, he said, was a “very dangerous notion, because it isn’t true.”

Schieffer then asked directly: “What you are saying is that it was America’s fault… you’re saying Americans caused 9/11?” Rep. Paul clarified that that wording made it sound like all Americans were responsible, and that “the average American didn’t cause it,” “but if you have a flawed policy, it may influence it.” With that he added somewhat defensively that “you’re supposed to be able to criticize your own government” without being accused of being on the terrorists’ side. Schieffer continued asking whether he thought it was “the government’s fault,” which Rep. Paul corrected to “the policymakers.”

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The conversation became more tense as they discussed the Iranian nuclear threat, which Rep. Paul thought could be resolved with diplomacy. “Iran doesn’t have a bomb, there’s no proof… and for us to overreact and talk about having a bomb,” he argued, was faulty. He used Libya as an example for that argument. Schieffer corrected Rep. Paul on the claim that anyone was contemplating the bombing of Iran, thought Rep. Paul noted he meant Republican candidates, not White House officials. The conversation turning more general, Schieffer asked Rep. Paul whether there was a single place on earth he thought the United States should have a military base. Rep. Paul responded that “a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon,” and that “this whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries” was outdated compared to the technology.

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  • Steve85

    who was that radical communist who said the same thing not to long ago?  barack obama? bernie sanders?

    Glenn Beck, 8/10/2010: What did this “moderate” say just a few days after 9/11? Well of course what all moderates say, quote:Imam Feisal Rauf, 9/30/2001:Glenn Beck, 4/15/2010:I wouldn’t say that the United States deserved what happened, but United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened.Did we deserve 9/11? No. But were we minding our business? No. Were we in bed with dictators and abandoned our values and principles? Yes. That causes problems.                                                                                          jon stewart had a great show on this.http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-16-2010/mosque-erade

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=738178071 Tim Cavanaugh

    “For over
    half a century, Muslims in Palestine have been slaughtered and
    assaulted and robbed of their honor and of their property.  Their
    houses have been blasted, their crops destroyed.  And the
    strange thing is that any act on their part to avenge themselves or to
    lift the injustice befalling them causes great agitation in the United
    Nations which hastens to call for an emergency meeting only to convict
    the victim and to censure the wronged and the tyrannized whose children
    have been killed and whose crops have been destroyed and whose farms have
    been pulverized ” – Osama bin Laden May 1998

        
    “The International Islamic Front for Jihad against the U.S. and Israel
    has issued a crystal-clear fatwa calling on the Islamic nation to carry
    on jihad aimed at liberating holy sites. The nation of Muhammad has responded
    to this appeal. If the instigation for jihad against the Jews
    and the Americans in order to
    liberate Al-Aksa Mosque and the Holy Ka’aba Islamic shrines in the Middle
    East is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a
    criminal.” – Osama bin Laden May 1999     

    “We swore
    that America wouldn’t live in security until
    we live it truly in Palestine . This showed the reality
    of America, which puts Israel’s interest above its own people’s interest.
    America won’t get out of this crisis until
    it gets out of the Arabian Peninsula , and until it stops its support
    of Israel.” -Osama bin Laden, October 2001
        
    A German friend
    of Mohammed Atta(the hijacker pilot who flew into WTC) is quoted as describing
    him as “most imbued actually about
    Israeli politics in the region and about US protection of these Israeli
    politics in the region. And he was to a degree personally suffering
    from that.”     
    These facts point
    to a motive for attacking the WTC in 2001 that is consistent with the
    motive expressed by terrorists in a letter sent to the New York Times
    after the 1993 bombing attack of the WTC,  “We declare our responsibility
    for the explosion on the mentioned building.  This
    action was done in response for the American political, economical, and
    military support to Israel the state of terrorism and to the rest of the
    dictator countries in the region.”     

  • Anonymous

    Easy, Paul, your smarts is showing… that can get you out on your butt in a hurry in the polls

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul 2012.
    I am voting for him.

  • Anonymous

    Though he neglected to mention the slavish support for Israel among the national security threats.. possibly the major factor, if not the primary one

  • Steve85

    that came out a little confusing…

    Glenn Beck, 4/15/2010:  Did we deserve 9/11?  No.  But were we minding our business?  No.  Were we in bed with dictators and abandoned our values and principals?  Yes.  That causes problems.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    CBS, after giving Ron Paul just 89 seconds in their stupid debate, decided to try to trap him in this interview.  And they’ve failed twice.  Ron Paul is right whether we like it or not.  Our foreign policy and foreign occupation is the #1 cause of suicide terrorism.

  • Anonymous

    Schieffer tried to box Paul in to get a sound bite CBS could abuse Paul with.  Schieffer failed.

    Besides, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz agrees with Ron Paul:

    “There are a lot of things that are different now, and one that has gone by almost unnoticed–but it’s huge–is that by complete mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia.  Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It’s been a huge recruiting device for al Qaeda. In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land, Mecca and Medina.”

    Source: Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair (09 May 2003)

  • Kid Dynamite

    Ron Paul has been on his butt in the polls all along.  Coming out as a 9/11 Truther didn’t hurt FOX News personality Judge Napolitano, and it won’t hurt Paul.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    That was the most slanderous “interview” I think I have seen.  Why does CBS seem to hate Ron Paul?  It wasn’t an interview so much as an attack.  WTF?

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    And people wonder why Ron Paul supporters can be so militant.  THIS “interview” is exactly why.  It was an intended hit piece from start to finish.  We’ve been dealing with this since 2007 from BOTH sides.

  • Anonymous

    No One But Ron Paul 2012!
     
    Schieffer just got destroyed by Dr. Paul.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Ron Paul believes 9/11 is an example of Islamic blow back - a  - blow back against our foreign policy over many years.  So why would he then suggest our own government was involved.  He hasn’t and that’s not his position.  It’s never been his position.  He’s probably more open to “questions” regarding 9/11 but that’s no surprise because he’s a good and fair person, unlike most of the tyranny lovers running for positions in our tyrannical police state government.

  • Sean68

    Schieffer: So you’re saying America had it coming?! Good grief.

  • Anonymous

    Now this is a real gotcha question. An unnecessary and very irresponsible question. 

  • Anonymous

    If CBS had a modicum of journalistic integrity, they would actually interview Ron Paul instead of baiting him with the same tired loaded questions he receives from every talking head in the MSM.  These are slanderous talking points shared by FOX, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, etc that are posed as questions.  These talking points are not questions, they are accusations.  Once again, CBS has proven itself unfit to call themselves journalists.  Why not try asking questions, and letting the audience decide?  Stop force feeding everyone ideas that you want them to believe are their own opinions.

  • http://twitter.com/teedubya Travis Wright

    Bob Schieffer makes Ron Paul look much younger… lol

  • Lulu

    It took Dr Ron Paul less than 89 seconds to destroy CBS.

  • Rizzousmc3883

    I’m a Marine with 8 years and 5 Deploments and I believe Ron Paul will make us a prosperous, strong and Peaceful Nation once again!

  • Sean68

    You’re right. Why is he so threatening? Because if people start listening to him and actually thinking, the American people might wise up enough to take back control of foreign policy.

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    America has suffered for over half a century for their support of Israel, at times standing alone against the world in defence of the indefensible.  Yet Israel is the tail that wags the much bigger dog with the considerable influence wielded by Israel’s lobbies in this country.  We’ve paid higher gas prices, gone to war with Iraq and watched our country be attacked all for the sake of Israel, why?  As long as they deny Palestinians the rights we praise others in the Arab spring for taking, we are nothing but hypocrites.

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    And after you’ve soothed your conscience for five minutes, what then?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, we actually might prosper economically, and have the freedom to be responsible for ourselves, our family, and our communities.  We actually might stop murdering brown/black people halfway around the world for economic/military gain.  We might have the freedom to put what ever the hell we want into our own bodies.  We might collectively abandon the MSM.  We might end the police state before it gets more out of control.  A lot of much needed drastic change might actually occur if Ron Paul’s message is heard loud and clear.  He’s everything the global control freaks hate, and they’re scrambling to kill his campaign before it explodes. 

  • http://twitter.com/Stanolicoc Travis

    People are wrong when they blame CBS for this.   CBS is just repeating the memes from other sectors of the public conversation.  There are a lot of Conservatives who hate Ron Paul.  He has heard these questions for 30 years.  Sometimes his problem is that he doesn’t turn this around on the questioners enough.  At the same time, that is his biggest strength because he doesn’t care anymore.  He just nimbly deflects the questions without getting perturbed meanwhile decimating the opposition’s attempt  to pigeonhole him.  Everytime this happens, it creates more support for Ron Paul.  The really depressing thing here is to watch Schieffer sink this low.  Just another clear example that the only person remotely ready to lead this country is Ron Paul.

  • Carlton

    Deploments is spelled DEPLOYMENTS.  Certainly a “US MARINE” would know that.  You are a fake.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    “that came out a little confusing”

    Only because you are so confused.

    This is Bircher nutbar meme framing you’re trying your hand at, pal, walking a tightrope with Glen Beck’s guidance and inspiration. Bircherism has been and always will be a tricky ‘intellmalectooal (sic)’ exercise, and you are showing characteristic difficulty. Hopefully for your sake, you’re wearing a parachute.

    Shall we start again?

    Hey, Ron Paul looks like he would be VERY comfortable in a two-man seminar with Jeremiah Wright: “chickens … coming home”; “gawd-DAMN America”.

    Two things: Paul is of course absolutely correct in this (as was and is Jeremiah Wright), but it’s not something that is ever going to get you the prize in the GOP Game Show. 

    In part, that’s because Paul (and in fairness to some extent Wright also), also says a lot of things that are downright fruitbar nutty.

    Anyway: thanks for coming, Ron; see you in 2016.

    (Actually, in fairness, Paul has enough staying power in his support that he could end up being a real PLAYUH in August in Miami. Who would he support? Not Mittens, that’s for sure, because Mittens is a Wall Street vulture capitalist and Fed guy; maybe fellow Texan Perry, maybe a compromise towards Newt. It’s all more than a bit nutty, but for SURE not Mittens.)

  • Rex the Wonder God

    The drums…the drums…that stupid website again…under yet another deliberately misleading avatar name…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7RQ3BYT543OCYDUVW4U4NJVM5Y Mary

    Or a bad typist. Or maybe his y doesn’t work well. You’re pretty quick to judge.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Good for you. Nice year for fruitnutbars, 1816 – well into the rise of the Know Nothings.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I love the smell of Paulites in the morni… mid-afternoon.

  • Tim Tebow

    Good points. Americans may fear self-criticism more than they fear “socialism.” Paul’s useful comments about foreign policy–though not all so thoughtful–are a useful corrective to the simplistic and self-serving idiocy that usually takes place in these conversations.

    One lesson of the Iraq war is that if a nation has nuclear weapons, we won’t attack them. So by attacking Iraq, we actually goaded Iran into developing their weapon systems. ‘The faster they get the bomb, the safer they’ll be’ is the most reasonable conclusion one could derive from our policies.

    Look at North Korea: safe and sound with their bomb. Had Saddam had the bomb he would still be in power.

    Iran wants that security, too.

    We are only making the world a more dangerous place with our careless talk and actions. War is NOT the continuation of policy, or ‘diplomacy’ by other means–it is a breakdown that will destabilize the world in incalculable ways.

  • Anonymous

    What an a-hole (Bob Schieffer)! This is an out-freaking-rageous question!

    Schieffer is misinterpreting everything and is obstinately trying to paint Ron Paul as a freakshow and anti-American. This would have been tagged as bad journalism even for the Fox News standards.

    So disappointing. I used to think Bob was a good man.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Spit on his comb Wolfowitz is, of course, a Mittens man.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    … which is, one must note, a lot further than even Jeremiah Wright went in his “chickens … coming home” talk.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I take it your latest “Deploment” was in a psychiatric ward.

    ‘Fraid I don’t believe you on your identity, Rizz.

  • http://twitter.com/Stanolicoc Stanolicoc

    This really makes a person angry.  Bob Schieffer just gave you the argument against Ron Paul.  The argument against Ron Paul is that he hates America.  These people always have the same argument.  They are the scum of the political spectrum.  They are the ones who hate America, or let me say, they hate anything in America that they don’t agree with.  Simple as that.  They are a bunch of crybabies.

  • Christian Bruun

    I am not a Paul fan but to be fair in no way was he saying he is a 9/11 “Truther”. That is the very problem with the headline of the story and the way it is often reported. It is grossly unfair to paul to depict him that way.

  • Anonymous

    CBS Cuts Off Ron Paul

    “Bob Schieffer promised Ron 20 minutes on Face the Nation, but cut him off after 10, because he was demolishing that establishment shill. Catch Schieffer’s smirk. Also, there was a loud buzzing from Ron’s earpiece during the entire interview. Deliberate? Who knows, but the flaw had been pointed out again and again 15 minutes before airtime.” (Source: L. Rockwell)

  • Anonymous

    “Bob Schieffer promised Ron 20 minutes on Face the Nation, but cut him off after 10, because he was demolishing that establishment shill. Catch Schieffer’s smirk. Also, there was a loud buzzing from Ron’s earpiece during the entire interview. Deliberate? Who knows, but the flaw had been pointed out again and again 15 minutes before airtime.” (Source: L. Rockwell)

  • Christian Bruun

    Anyone else watch this and think it was a remake of “Grumpy Old Men”?

  • Anonymous

    “I take it your latest “Deploment” was in a psychiatric ward.”

    Hey Rex, go to your nearest VA Hospital, visit the counseling ward where they treat PTSD sufferers and say this.

    Rex you are a reprobate.

  • Anonymous

    Right, they are both Neocon shills; but Wolfowitz was right at least once in 2003.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JPBLYAU3I5JDNH26KVAQLXGCNU Andrew Y

    Rex’s thinking seems to have a lot in common with dinos because it’s quickly becoming extinct….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JPBLYAU3I5JDNH26KVAQLXGCNU Andrew Y

    Yeah, cause nobody in the military supports Ron Paul.  He only has the most it of every other candidate combined.  You didn’t think that you’d run into some once and awhile. 

  • Sean68

    I don’t know what you’re talking about. Paul said our foreign policy was one of the causes of 9/11. Wright said we had it coming as if it was god himself who was flying those planes. Paul was describing; Wright was celebrating. God damn America! (halleluja! F whitey!) Big difference.

  • Naql99

    You guys are confusing Rex. In his world, there is only black and white. You are either with him or you are a terrorist. Darned intelligentsia soc… er, Libertarians always relying on slippery, nuanced things like facts.

  • Sean68

    The issue isn’t race. We murder white people too.

  • Lulu

    Dr Ron Paul has mastered the technique of educating the viewers while exposing the utter stupidy of the interviewer.  I can’t wait to see Dr Ron Paul in the next few months as he obliterates the corporate media and corporate politicians. It’s so easy when you actually believe your own approach and even better when proven right!

  • Anonymous

    I just hope Ron Paul can hang on until the nomination has to be settled at a brokered convention.

  • DanSimon564

    Newt Gingrich is a serial adulterer who takes money from Fannie May, Romney is a Liberal pretending to be a Conservative, Herman Cain is a know nothing who is an embarrassment to all Conservatives. Perry is a drug addled joke. Bachmann is nuts. Jon Huntsman is a free trade supporting nothing and Rick Santorum is a google joke.

    The only choice to defeat Obama is Ron Paul.

    Ron Paul 2012

    End The Fed

  • Mencius

    This guy is a religious zealot, only his god is a magical being called the Invisible Hand of the Market, which has never existed in this world and never will. The closest historical analogy to what he wants is late 19th century England, and I’m pretty sure that didn’t turn out too well for many of average folks, though of course the richest did alright until the entire economy collapsed. 

  • DanSimon564

    Ron Paul is not a Truther and you know that is true. Ron Paul is absolutely correct in stating that the cause of 911 was blowback due to 50 years of US intervention in the Middle East, starting with the deposing of Mossadegh in Iran in 1954.

    Osama Bin Laden’s driver was quoted as saying the 2 primary reasons for 911 was the United States’ presence in Saudi Arabia and our support of Israel. Get familiar with our nations history and refrain from spreading misinformation about Dr. Paul.

    Ron Paul is the only logical choice to beat Obama in 2012.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Michael/100002314835409 Paul Michael

    Ron Paul’s foreign policy is what this
    country needs. University of Chicago professor Robert Pape’s studies
    have shown that over 95% of ALL suicide terrorist attacks are because
    of FOREIGN OCCUPATION!!  

  • Anonymous

    Was less an interview and more than an assault on Representative Paul.  Look, if you are being shot by people using guns from Alpha, paid by Alpha, and ordered by a government put in place by Alpha, you might be a little pissed off at Alpha.  If we quit paying people to use our crap to kill their own people with then they wouldn’t want to attack us.  Look, if the Iranian people, Saudi, Libyan, Syrian, Turk, Lebonese, Egyptian, Iraqi, Paki or Afghani people, truly hated us they would not be doing everything they could to move here, and, become American!!!!!

  • Skilesfam47

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  • Anonymous

    These weren’t “hard questions,” from Schieffer, they were willfully ignorant questions from a longtime media shill for the state.  Paul is on the record for a long time blaming US policies around the world for blowback against American installations, a concept well-understood by the Department of Defense and the CIA, as Paul noted.  Schieffer’s rephrasing of that as Paul “blaming America” or claiming the 9/11 attacks were “America’s fault” was done back in 2007 and deftly refuted by Paul then during the Republican debates, most memorably against Rudolph Giuliani.

    Schieffer, incidentally, is not a journalist in any meaningful sense.  He’s what used to be called a “scribe” a couple of hundred years ago before the more respectable-sounding “journalist” became introduced.  His job is not to uncover malfeasance by the rich and powerful, but rather to lie, spin and attack to protect their interests.  He is typically well-connected for a hooked-in D.C. scribe: his brother is a longtime Bush business partner who was U.S. ambassador to Australia and Japan in the 2000s, and he himself is a member of the ultra-powerful Council on Foreign Relations:

    http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=S

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Schieffer

    This explains Schieffer’s hostility to Ron Paul: any politician who isn’t corrupt and won’t play ball with DC insiders like Schieffer and his brother must be marginalized.  Thank goodness the Old Media is dying — faster, please.

    Ron Paul 2012

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Farax-Shirwac/100001414842261 Farax Shirwac

    I was embarrassed for Schieffer…

  • Tito Esposito

    Ron Paul should run for Chairman of the Franklin Mint. He could oversee the production of collectible gold and silver coins, and maybe even bronze castings of his shoes.

  • Anonymous

    ***  ‘shieffer’ is clearly lapdogging for the war machine, his baiting Paul was unprofessional and rather desperate. This only further exposes the main stream media as the bogus propaganda tool that it is. Hardly anyone is tuning in anymore, which is why they are trying to shut down the internet. Reach out to everyone, let them know Paul’s policies and real positions, and be sure to note the media’s desperation and what the bigger picture is. I’m buying a Paul sweatshirt today since media isn’t doing anything but ignoring him or trying to bash him.
    Ron Paul for the people, 2012.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=738178071 Tim Cavanaugh

    CIA Bin Laden Chief Michael Scheuer explains that we were not attacked
    because of the way life is lived in the West, but instead due to the
    activities of our government and its allies the Middle East.

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udz5_FdoFGU

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=738178071 Tim Cavanaugh

    CIA Bin Laden Chief Michael Scheuer explains that we were not attacked
    because of the way life is lived in the West, but instead due to the
    activities of our government and its allies the Middle East.

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udz5_FdoFGU

  • Lord Voltara The Great

    Bob Schieffer “confronted” Ron Paul like a bug confronts a bumper

  • Anonymous
  • Lord Voltara The Great

    They are all lining up with their megaphones waiting for exactly that moment so he can be denounced as a nazi.

  • James Anthony

    Bob  Schieffer just tossed his career as journalist out the window with this petty display interviewing Ron Paul.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Right “at least once in 2003″ on WHAT exactly. The guy has been wrong more often than Bill Kristol. One of the most disturbing things for Mittens supporters must be seeing Wolfowitz coming on board the Mittens Motorcade as a “foreign policy” advisor because the guy has elevated being wrong to an art form; just seeing his name there must make all the Not Mittens stocks rise.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    No he didn’t you lying meme freak. The whole talk is on YouTube and Wright said no such thing, not even close. 

    He started out relating to his audience that due to airports being secured down for 9/11 he was unable to get back to Chicago in time for several parish events, baptisms, funerals, that sort of thing. Then he talked about sharing a conversation while waiting in the airport, with an outgoing US ambassador back from the Middle East, and it was THAT ambassador he was quoting with the chickens coming home to roost theme; it was that ambassador who told Wright about his view of this being more or less inevitable payback for US involvement in the Middle East, not something Wright came up with on his own. Again: the words of a senior US government official serving in the area, for, among others, Shrub. 

    And he was not celebrating at all. I get the distinct impression that you either have not even WATCHED the whole talk, and are just lying about that, and out of ignorance, or you HAVE watched it and you’re a complete and utter liar from the get-go. Either way you are a liar, and it’s very easy for anyone here to resolve that and prove it by watching the whole twenty plus minutes of the talk.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Hey, Ron Paul is welcome on Comedy Central and msnbc as much as he wants. The problem is he knows going on there loses him status with the screaming memers in his own party.

    The other problem is that, beyond his quite accurate comments on American imperialism, made up wars in foreign lands, when you get him back to domestic politics, he’s got some real blind spots and remarkably deep ignorance on economics and civil rights. He’s a believer in classic Von Mises nonsense, and doesn’t understand how money works at all. He’s RIGHT that the Fed does some remarkably retrograde things (It almost exclusively protects the rich by keeping down inflation, but fails routinely and horribly on its other mandate to keep down unemployment.), but he looks at the Fed through – and I mean this literally – gold standard colored glasses, a ruinous concept that has taken down economies ever since the Spanish empire died on a cross of it. 

    This leaves aside completely that true libertarians, of which Paul is close to but not quite one, themselves concede that they are not into governing THEMSELVES, just into assuring freedom for citizens. I give Paul credit here at bit too, because he’s said any number of times he has no illusions at all about ever actually winning the presidency, he’s completely about the conversation. That is, he’s not ABOUT running to win, he’s about running to effect change. SOME of his changes, a few, I can get with; mostly though, they’re completely retrograde and nutty as a fruitbar.

  • Anonymous

    No, not 9-11.  Bob Schieffer was probably referring the year 1911.   Back when Bob was still  in his prime as a journalist.

  • Anonymous

    The one time in 2003 –

    In this instance, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz agrees with Ron Paul:

    “There are a lot of things that are different now, and one that has gone by almost unnoticed–but it’s huge–is that by complete mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia.

    “Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It’s been a huge recruiting device for al Qaeda. In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land, Mecca and Medina.”

    Source: Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair (09 May 2003)

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Well, yeah: this is one of the Sunday Morning With Your Republican Party shows – what ELSE did you expect of Bob Schieffer? This isn’t like NEWS – Schieffer has been a Washington DC establishment tool for decades.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    “I used to think Bob was a good man”. Uh … like in the 1970s?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I hope he does “obliterate” away. Won’t do any good.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Hah! Schieffer has been on CBS News for almost a HALF CENTURY. “Just tossed his career as [a] journalist ouf the window” is kind of a little LATE, dontcha think? 

    I’m not completely sure Bob is actually still alive; he’s been saying these sorts of things for so many decades now, his cadaver can say them without his brain needing to be active.

    Anyway: I’m not sure why you imagine Schieffer does this sort of thing, which by the way he does ALL THE FREAKING TIME, against the wishes of his network’s owners.

  • Hyperbolic Chalkboard

    YUP…I never realized Bob was a flaming neocon!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Dr. Ron Paul handled Schieffer’s questions no sweat. These things aren’t so hard when you stick to your principles like Ron Paul, and ESPECIALLY when they’re the correct principles like Ron Paul’s.

  • Sean68

    I have watched the entire thing multiple times. Wright was clearly engaging in a ghetto version of schadenfreude at the expense of this white racist country he so clearly despises, like his hero Louis Farrakhan.

  • Anonymous

    Clearly Schieffer belives 911 was America’s fault.

  • ArmyStrong619

    or maybe its just a typo like im sure many of us have done, get over it and just say thank you for serving this country 

  • ArmyStrong619

    I agree with EVERY single thing you just said. Ron Paul is the last hope.

  • Anonymous

    In an unrelated story, it seems the spanking Chris Matthews received from Larry Elders did some correction to his mental condition, considering the fact that Obama used to give him a “Thrill up my leg.” in his own words.

    http://bit.ly/tI7Cf4

    PS: I’ll post this several times on this website because I know the left wing media and the Mediate Crew(DNC Crew) will likely ignore the story as they usuaslly do when their White House Boss is trashed. We all know it takes only minutes for Mediate to make the bashing of Republican candidates their top stories here.

  • http://profiles.google.com/sanjaysingh.boston Sanjay Singh

    This world government prostitute is putting words in Paul’s mouth.  Americans did not cause 9/11.

    Neocons caused 9/11.

    Obama = Romney = Perry = Cain = Gingrich = different puppets, same federal reserve/bankster masters.

    Gingrich = endless wives, endless wars, freddie-mac 1.8 Million $, medical mandates, 3rd world amnesty/welfare, TARP/bailouts.

    Cain = Kansas Federal reserve thug, “libya swirling in my head”, finger in panties, TARP/bailouts.

    Romney = commie medical care, racist quotas, bailouts, TARP, abortion, gun control, bloodthirsty war-lust, campaign funding by Banksters.

    Perry = Gardasil for little girls, free health/ education/house/food for 3rd world aliens, “niggerhead” on farm, “oops” in his brain, “bank-of-america helping him out”.

    End the wars/empire, end the federal reserve/IMF/World Bank/BIS, end UN/WTO, end racist quotas, end unconstitutional departments, end TSA/DHS/ADL/SPLC and other crime syndicates.

    Ron Paul will restore Sound money, strong national defense, liberty, free enterprise, local government, strong traditional families, western civilization.

  • Countrysk8

    you sir are a Dick.

  • banh

    Hey Rex, better get out and buy yoself an economy-sized box of adult Depends… you will need them as you witness Ron Paul gaining more and more supporters. Grab a stick of wood to bite down on so you don’t break your teeth…  And fruitbar nutty was normal before the Beltway went Oligarch… get accustomed to eating fruitbars bub…

  • banh

    Since when did searching for the truth in a world of totally corrupt governments become something to ridicule?

    Propaganda strategies should be required reading in colleges today, so that we can begin to ferret out the rats in government by understanding how propaganda works.. We’d have a much smarter population..

  • banh

    Christian, labels are very effective in propaganda… Truther, Fringe, Conspiracy Theorist, extremist, all designed to instill doubt in the public mind.

    There is BIG reason for the oligarchy to be instilling doubt in YOUR mind about Ron Paul. 

    Ron Paul is opening the window on the corruption in government, finance, foreign policy, everything. He’s going to reset the clock. THAT scares the crap out of the powers that be…

  • banh

    Hey Tito, give it time, you’ll come around…  Start with some good organic food and ginger tea to stimulate all those brain cells…

  • banh

    Yes Rex the Wonder Dog, 1816 was a very good year for fruit bars. You guys who fear Ron Paul apparently have a beef that you don’t have the backbone to discuss. You seem to be the resident flea here in the comments, but you don’t don’t actually say very much.

    Give some of your wisdom, O Rex the Wonder Dog…  we’re waiting..

  • shonangreg

    It is obviously a typo — maybe made from a phone. Your assumption, Carlton, is unfounded and your logic is faulty. I’d prefers typos to not being able to make sense ;-)

  • banh

    Hey Wonder Dog, you are truly crappin your pants over Ron Paul… so what’s up, why all the fear? Let’s be transparent about it too, ok?

    Spare us all your attempt at wit… and give us the rundown on the fear that’s making you so antsy about Ron Paul…  You haven’t made it yet as a Comedy Central sensation, so try using your brain AND your mouth at the same time… tell your beef with Ron Paul without your sarcasm… that just makes you look like a nutjob..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UING2KDCEZ45FUXK73W7CNONOE LibertyLover
  • http://www.facebook.com/sootsme Ed Williams

    “Bircher”? How many folks actually know what a “Bircher” actually means? I found a copy of the John Birch Society’s “Blue Book”, written in the 1950s, one day while poking around at a used book sale. For a quarter, I figured “what the heck, couldn’t hurt to check it out & see what the fuss was about.” WOW! Everything they were saying clear back in the ’50s either has come to pass, or is in the process of doing so. Pretty prescient for a bunch of old white guys, to say the least. So- love ‘em or hate ‘em, history is showing that “just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.” Once again, work for the best, while preparing for the worst, folks…

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    Personally I would like to know if Ron were to bring all troops home from overseas, would that have any affect on the current unemployment situation? If all troops were brought home from overseas would they all remain in the service? And if so would that have any affect on the military bases here at home? In other words is it feasable to bring all military troops home from overseas?

  • Qnique

    Don’t think Ron cares one way or the other what the service men and women would do once they came home. The typical scenario is that they find a job!?!

  • Thinker

    ***Breaking News that none of the mainstream media is touching on right now: Today George W. Bush and Tony Blair were found guilty of war crimes for fabricated intell of WMDs and the death of over 1mill Iraqis since 2003. Just google it if you’re interested in hearing what the media doesn’t want you to know! Still want to go into Iran without any proof!!?

  • Anonymous

    You obviously know nothing about economic/monetary policy, but you obviously seem to think you do.  What qualifies your opinion?  Why should anybody listen to you?  Spain was an exceptionally rare case of rapid inflation in conjunction with a gold standard.  Would you do us the honor of naming other countries who had their economies destroyed by gold?  Fact is, FIAT money is what destroys countries.  Spain brought back almost 200 tons of gold from America in a short period of time, thereby increasing the money supply quickly.  Do you really think that’s going to happen again?  No, it won’t.  Nobody is suddenly going to find hundreds of TONS of gold anytime soon.

    Can you name one federal domestic program that isn’t a complete failure?  Let me know if you think you can, and I’ll gladly school you.  Seems like calling Ron Paul a kook, or crazy is all you Raw Story trolls can come up with.  Everything else is complete bs, so name calling is all you got.  Go ahead and name another candidate who you would support, and lets see how many funny things we can hurl at you for it. 

  • Anonymous

    Sure, we murder all sorts of people.  However, brown/black people seem to be our favorite type of people to murder for money/power. 

  • Anonymous

    Actually, Paul also responded that people in the U.S. government absolute HAVE “contemplated” bombing Iran, as is evidenced every time they say that all options are on the table. Get it right!

  • Anonymous

    You’re an infantile moron. When Ron Paul says that America should defend its own interests rather than Israel’s, who hates America? Answer: you.

  • Anonymous

    Youre an idiot. Ron Paul has said things you consider crazy? Compared to what candidate. Name the candidate you consider more sane than Paul, and allow us to list the ways you’re wrong.

  • Anonymous

    I was stationed in Germany during the Vietnam War. I saw first hand how the country was divided by a two part fence with the inner parts divide topped with corner troop positions a 50 caliber pointed at you! Now no war in Europe since WWII why do you think that is. I personally would like to see some of US troops in Poland and a few other contries that would help secure them better and start more trade to US. Look to Japan because we are there they can’t start any more havoc. South Korea is another area and Saudi Arabia but only minimal. Who do you think has stopped Iran from starting a war at least openly. Our next President will have to deal with them. I prefer to help their citizens overthrow the Islamists. Actually I’d wait till I had them all together you know having one of their great parades. A few Raptors in key areas and well a no more idiots. Then we go in and help the people retake their government. But alas no one listens. Ron Paul has it right on with Fed and eliminating some departments etc. but thats it! 
    I like Newt because he has done the dirty deed that is why the elite hate him. No no not that Balanced budget 4 years never done before! He was accomplishing soo much that they went after him in a vicious way. But today will be a different outcome if new blood is voted in and Congress is republican majority House-Senate.
    Even if Romney wins the primary majority he will have to listen to Tea Party ideas when elected president. So I am more and more encouraged by the debates just need some more good ideas and real policy added to the republican model. A Civil War without firing a shot is needed once in awhile for every government to get back to serving its people.

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