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Rep. Ron Paul Accuses Obama Of Using ‘Fear Tactics’ To Raise Debt Ceiling

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In response to President Barack Obama‘s speech today, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul visited John King USA today and gave host Jessica Yellin his response, and he was not happy with the way the executive is conducting business abroad and the increasing national debt. Rep. Paul decried the President’s “fear tactics” used to keep American forces in Libya and took offense at claims that Republicans “don’t think [the debt issue] is serious.”

Rep. Paul began addressing the President’s justifications for remaining in Libya, which he found insufficient as there are a very large amount of murderous dictators on the planet and he could not see America intervening in all of their territories. What’s more, Rep. Paul didn’t believe in the “flip-flopping around” of foreign policy in the past several decades– “it wasn’t so many years ago that we were doing business with [Muammar] Gaddafi,” he argued, adding that “we were on the same side as bin Laden when the Soviets were in Afghanistan” and “Saddam [Hussein] was our best friend in the ’80s.”

But Rep. Paul took most offense at the President, according to Rep. Paul, “imply[ing] that we don’t think it’s serious,” referring to the national debt. What he did believe, he noted, was that “continuing the process is worse than facing the facts.” “He should never challenge us and tell us we aren’t worried about this,” he scolded, adding that “fear tactics are the tool of big government,” and it was said fear tactics that would stall any improvement in the current economic situation.

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  • Republicans Are Liars

    There are only a handful of people who are more clueless than Ron Paul – his followers and his son!!!

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Gary Johnson is a pragmatic Ron Paul, hence no more need for Ron Paul. He’s an ideologue, just of a different persuasion than the Pelosi’s and Palin’s. By the way, you’d think someone as madly in love with the Constitution as Ron Paul would’ve read the whole 14th amendment.

  • turk281

    Republicans Are Liars said:
    There are only a handful of people who are more clueless than Ron Paul – his followers and his son!!!

    Typical response from an ill informed liberal with religious like fanaticism for their side.

    The easiest way to go through life without having to actually think for yourself is to take on a belief like yours -Republicans Are Liars.

    The left is great at marketing their brand to gullible political consumers.

  • Republicans Are Liars

    Well Turk looks like you have drank the kool-aid. You need to ask yourself one question, smart guy… Why is there the largest gap ever between the rich and middle class? It has been republican economic policies and deregulation have allowed the rich to run rough shod over the average american worker. You don’t even know who fights for people like you. If that is your picture you certainly don’t look like you are in the 7 figure demographic. Yet you sit there spitting on the people who try to even the playing field for slugs like you. I would love to be there when your child is denied insurance for a preexisting condition or your butt is kicked to the curb and your house is taken away from you to pay medical bills. Keep voting republican wise guy. It is your own death order you are signing.

  • winning

    Obama’s presser today dominated the news all day, yet there’s a curious lack of articles on Mediaite, a site supposedly analyzing the news media. I suppose since Mediaite is far left, and Obama’s presser was about as un-presidential and amateur as I’ve ever seen, (seriously, what a lying little whiny bitch) I would have expected at least a few. I mean, Weiner’s weiner drew about 75% of all articles for an entire two weeks. Other than this one, there was the “Obama likes gays” written about mid day.

  • cjd ohio 1

    the president is just overblowing it

  • turk281

    Republicans Are Liars said:
    Well Turk looks like you have drank the kool-aid. You need to ask yourself one question, smart guy… Why is there the largest gap ever between the rich and middle class? It has been republican economic policies and deregulation have allowed the rich to run rough shod over the average american worker. You don’t even know who fights for people like you. If that is your picture you certainly don’t look like you are in the 7 figure demographic. Yet you sit there spitting on the people who try to even the playing field for slugs like you. I would love to be there when your child is denied insurance for a preexisting condition or your butt is kicked to the curb and your house is taken away from you to pay medical bills. Keep voting republican wise guy. It is your own death order you are signing.

    I don’t want politicians to fight for me, and I don’t want a nanny state where Big Government is there to protect me from the “evil” excesses of capitalism.

    I want a free market that allows smaller people to be able to take chances and let their creative experiments turn into a viable business that helps everybody. I want poor people empowered. I want competition that drives prices down and quality up.

    What Big Government does is prevent little people from success by passing regulations that only benefit big corporations.

    My biggest problem with the left is their economic ignorance. America became the place that it is today, not from Government busy bodies Centrally Planning our lives. It’s the opposite. It’s the freedom of the individual from restrictive governing know it all’s.

    It doesn’t take but a day of research to compare nations that have governments run their industry and nations that allow maximum freedom of enterprise and see which ones have been successful.

  • dougx

    Ron Paul is easily my number 1 choice for president, but during the nomination process, you have to use Buckley’s dictum regarding getting someone elected. Goldwater was the ultimate true believer and look what a catastrophe for the nation it was nominating him to run against LBJ. Granted, Obama is not in LBJ’s league but still, the lesson applies.

  • Republicans Are Liars

    Turk, buddy I suggest you move to Hatti. They have so few regulations down there, especially building codes. This is a big country. It needs a big government, especially a strong federal government. If we didn’t have it, we would be victim to the mass corruption only city and state governments can provide. Just ask the state of Illinois. Four of their last 7 governors have been convicted of felonies. It’s the Feds who put these sleaze ballsbehind bars. Why do you hate America so much, Turk? If you hate the government you hate America. I’m just wondering which part of the governement you hate the worst? Is it the street department, the fire department, the police department, the military, the health inspectors, the enviromental protection agency, is it the consumer protection agency, is it the national endowment for the arts (come on you like civilization don’t you?) is it the federal aviation admisinstration, is it the food and drug administration, (yea lets get rid of that pesky group so we can get back the slaughter houses of the early 20th century. The things you want is what DEMOCRATS want to provide you. Dude, listen up. I am an entreprenuer. I employee 15 people full time. It is a crock of the midwest’s finest cow dung that governement regulations puts a kabash to small business. My business has survived 9/11 and this Republican induced recession we are having because I have good ideas and know how to implement them. Swearing at a boogeyman government for your ineptitude is laughable. Grow up. Be a patriot. Pay your taxes and vote Democratic.

  • btimsah

    The only people who don’t like Ron Paul are political partisan hacks or interventionists.

    Hopefully his revolution can convert some of you..

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Taht’s all the Democrats have is FEAR & SMEAR!
    Just look at the way THEIR MEDIA is already going after Bachman, Cain & anyone else who poses a threat to the Dictatorship of the Keft.

    What else can they run on? – The Obama DEPRESSION?

    The nerve! – Obama’s out playing 17 weekends of golf and doing dozens of fundraisers – while the country BURNS!!

    This is YOUR DEMOCRATIC PARTY people…WAKE UP!

    These parasites like to use the wealth of our country to fund their WELFARE STATE!
    They buy votes with our taxes, but they DESPISE all the traditional values of family & personal responsibility that gave made this national experiment such a success.

  • Mas Liberty5

    One part that I noticed Frances left out was the issues regarding President O-Bomb-a’s remark about the us government having one solidified view towards Libya. O-bomb-a basically claimed that it was unpatriotic for different members of congress to actually be debating the issue of this illegal war – although he didn’t say illegal. It’s the responsibility of congress to debate. Regardless of what O-bomb-a thinks he is not a king.

    On a side note, Paul schooled that reporter from CNN.

  • Mas Liberty5

    Republicans Are Liars said:
    f we didn’t have it, we would be victim to the mass corruption only city and state governments can provide. Just ask the state of Illinois. Four of their last 7 governors have been convicted of felonies. It’s the Feds who put these sleaze ballsbehind bars.

    LOL..I love how you use that state as an example – a state that is a fine example of Democratic policies.

  • Skippy

    “Saddam [Hussein] was our best friend in the ’80s.”

    Waaaaay to win the wingnut nomination there.

    Tell us again why the gNOpigs invaded Iraq.

  • Skippy

    Here is another one of the USA’s “best friends”

    Osama Bin Laden.

    Oooooops…

  • Skippy

    Manuel Noriega.

    Oh, sht… I recall a brief invasion of Panama to shut him up.

  • Skippy

    Well, how about Augusto Pinochet?

    He was quite a swell wingnut… friend of the USA.

  • Skippy

    I just realized, July 26 is coming up. I almost forgot another good friend.

    Fulgencio Batista.

  • Skippy

    You gNOpig idiots and Ron Paul supporters can’t help but recognize the long line of “good friends” the USA has made all over the world.

    Here is another good friend:

    Ferdinand Marcos.

  • Liberty4ALL

    Republicans Are Liars said:
    Turk, buddy I suggest you move to Hatti. They have so few regulations down there, especially building codes. This is a big country. It needs a big government, especially a strong federal government. If we didn’t have it, we would be victim to the mass corruption only city and state governments can provide. Just ask the state of Illinois. Four of their last 7 governors have been convicted of felonies. It’s the Feds who put these sleaze ballsbehind bars. Why do you hate America so much, Turk? If you hate the government you hate America. I’m just wondering which part of the governement you hate the worst? Is it the street department, the fire department, the police department, the military, the health inspectors, the enviromental protection agency, is it the consumer protection agency, is it the national endowment for the arts (come on you like civilization don’t you?) is it the federal aviation admisinstration, is it the food and drug administration, (yea lets get rid of that pesky group so we can get back the slaughter houses of the early 20th century. The things you want is what DEMOCRATS want to provide you. Dude, listen up. I am an entreprenuer. I employee 15 people full time. It is a crock of the midwest’s finest cow dung that governement regulations puts a kabash to small business. My business has survived 9/11 and this Republican induced recession we are having because I have good ideas and know how to implement them. Swearing at a boogeyman government for your ineptitude is laughable. Grow up. Be a patriot. Pay your taxes and vote Democratic.

    If your definition of being a patriot means paying your taxes and voting Democratic we are all in trouble. Vote for the person not the party and we will all be better off. Big government is NOT the answer to the problems we are facing today, in fact it is the reason why were are 14.2 trillion dollars in debt and getting closer to being the next Greece. Both Democrats and Republicans are to blame for this, yet neither party accepts the responsibility or takes the action to stop it. Democrats want to continue social programs and Republicans wont propose or sign off on any new tax hikes, yet we are still fighting foreign wars ( costing us billions each week) and continuing medicare as well as Obamacare which will add to the deficit. Big Government=more spending and this has to stop, so anyone proposing that a larger government can resolve these issues needs to look at how large our government has grown the last 20 years and analyze how ineffective is has been. Ron Paul sits on the financial regulation committee and each day and understands the financial trouble the US is in, while he may get a little extreme on certain issues ( abolishing the Fed) he is trying to get people to realize how Bankrupt America is and what path we are going down. Its time to be a real Patriot and vote for someone who will stop the spending, and bring real economic growth to our country. Ron Paul!

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  • Mas Liberty5

    Skippy said:
    “Saddam [Hussein] was our best friend in the ’80s.”

    Waaaaay to win the wingnut nomination there.

    Tell us again why the gNOpigs invaded Iraq.

    It’s called being honest – something the dumbocrats and repugnantcans know nothing about. What we need is more honest politicians, not the standard lie through your teeth, bailout corporate buddies, invade and bomb countries, and step all over the US Constitution politicians like Romney or Obama.

  • jj8111

    George bush and Barrack Obama are the same guy!! Same foreign policy, domestic policy and same monetary policy for the last 30+ years. Small social policy differences but essentially the same, and its a shame that people are blinded by fox news and msnbc, stop getting your news for places that tell you 20% of the truth. Use the “internets”. George stared 2 wars, which Barrack promised to end, yeah right! And then barrack started 2 more! Barrack promised to repeal the patriot act.. ha! that happened. Stop the bailouts? no way gotta get my campaign money Barrack said!

    The republican and democrat (its democrat not democratic btw) use small insignificant issues to get dim witted Americans to buy into their agendas. If they can get you to hate the other party what choice do you have but to vote for them? Come on wake up! – you are destroying our future by listening to these fools! They play their shell game and you pay no attention to the big problems like the deficit, our foreign policy and the elimination of our civil rights,”blame the other party on some small issue and the narrow minded Americans will follow like sheep.” The republican and Democrat parties are using each other to maintain control of our government, they like each other they need each other.

    American politics has degraded to the point where it is truly like a religion. Stop bailing out big business, and individuals. Social Liberals use the business bailouts as reason to further their social agenda. What? because they (republicans) are doing that then we can do this. same old same old. Its insane. Grow a brain and end it all. Stop making bad decisions and justifying them based on the fact that you can argue that they are slightly better then the bad decisions of your opponent. End the Wars, stop creating new ones. Implement a non-interventionist foreign policy, give us back our civil rights and implement a sound monetary policy.

    This is why for I changed my party affiliation to republican, not because I believe in them but because I believe in Ron Paul and most of his vision for America.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fives-Zack-Fivenson/7607201 fb7607201

    Both sides are using fear tactics to push their agenda through. Frankly, I’m not convinced that the US defaulting on some of its debts will be the end of the world. Financial markets have no doubt priced that possibility into bond yields already.

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  • X-3

    Ron Paul is correct that -0bama is fear mongering when he says if the US doesn’t acquire even more debt and go further into the hole we will be in big trouble. Actually, just the opposite is true! -0bama’s answer is to throw even more good money after bad. Ron Paul’s problem is convincing the deniers that embracing the necessity for some seriously draconian measures–cutting spending by trillions of dollars and defunding the many government Departments, Agencies, Bureaus, and Offices that waste our revenues, while easing up on the overregulation that has ruined our manufacturing-based economy are the ONLY way out! Most Americans don’t have the guts to admit the truth in what he says.

  • X-3

    is true.

  • 78Thomas

    Go Ron Go!
    ALL other GOP candidates are the same, “will do or say anything” to get elected. And then once elected do their own agenda. This includes Obama.

    Ron Paul is the only honest and straight forward candidate.

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