Posted by
Catmman on Friday, February 01, 2008 9:20:59 PM
I thought the good Doktor and his supporters, the Paulbots, were striving for something different in Washington? I've been told time and again by the Paulbots that Herr Doktor isn't like other politicians -
he's a Doktor.
It seems he may have picked up some bad habits somewhere between not reading or writing those racist newsletters and delivering babies. He's hired a scandal ridden bride taker/criminal as a policy advisor? Herr Doktor has also made several other hires. One a hate/blame America firster who also doesn't like Israel.
Go figure.
Anyway for some background, head over to the
Lone Star Times. First lets look at the "former CIA analyst" who shares Pauls view of the world (and Israel BTW.)
In other Ron Paul related news, former CIA officer Phillip Giraldi has joined the campaign as a policy adviser. Congratulations to them both.
Why would Paul want to listen to Giraldi?
What attracted Giraldi to the Paul camp?
While we await an official answer, here are some excerpts from a column by Giraldi that appeared last June on “The Huffington Post,” long known as a bastion of Republican intellectual ferment.
Here's some food for thought about this guy: (
emphasis added by Lone Star)
And then there is Iran, which is really about Israel because Iran does not actually threaten the United States. The Iran agenda includes pre-emptive military action if necessary and the implicit deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to destroy Tehran’s alleged weapons program, both issues that should make even the most hardened politician pause. But all the leading candidates have unflinchingly completed their obligatory obeisance to Israel and its principal lobby AIPAC. All have sworn to defend Israel to the last dead American soldier if that should become necessary though not a single one has bothered to make a coherent argument why that should be so beyond the usual assertions about terrorism, which, incidentally, have themselves been carefully crafted by Israel and its lobby to justify the “special relationship.” The rest of the world sees it all somewhat differently. Israel is engaged in a brutal occupation that is clearly visible on satellite television nightly. Its repression of the Palestinians is enabled by the United States. If the candidates actually believe that the United States should go to war for Israel no matter what Israel does, perhaps they should say so unambiguously. Ignorance of the negative consequences of the U.S.’s writing of a blank check for Israel, which fuels much anti-American sentiment and terrorism, should not be acceptable.
Now remember, Herr Doktor gets away with having the racists and bigots support him because he "has never said any of those types of things" right? But this guy is out in the open about his feelings about the US. And Paul hired him to his campaign as an advisor. And he would also most certainly have some position in Herr Doktors administration.
Like minds as they say....
Now about this guy Doug Bandow. This is what
Herr Doktors campaign says about him:
Doug Bandow is a political writer and the Robert A. Taft Fellow with the American Conservative Defense Alliance. He has been widely published in leading newspapers and periodicals, and is the author of several books – including, most recently, Foreign Follies. Mr. Bandow served as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a senior policy analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign.
This is what the first paragraph about this
guy in Wikipedia says:
Douglas (Doug) Bandow is a former columnist with Copley News Service and former senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He resigned in 2005 due a scandal involving payments for columns from lobbyist Jack Abramoff and wrote about it in the Los Angeles Times. He served as a Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a Senior Policy Analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign. He is also a columnist for Antiwar.com.
Just a thought, but is Antiwar.com a new conservative website? Uh, no. It's a blatantly anti-american swill site. And this guy writes for it. Did I mention that
so does Herr Doktor?
As to the scandal?
Bandow resigned from Cato on December 15, 2005, after admitting he accepted payments from Abramoff — in return for publishing articles favorable to Abramoff's clients over a period of approximately ten years. He has referred to these activities as "a lapse of judgment," saying that he accepted payments for "between 12 and 24 articles" over a period of years. He stepped down after BusinessWeek Online contacted the Cato Institute to probe news of possible payments. He typically received on the order of $2000 per article.[Now I wondered if this is the same guy, but the corresponding info from both Herr Doktors campaign and the Wiki entry (about working for Reagan and the timeframe) seem to point that it is.
So here we have Herr Doktor - "The Only Man Who can Save America" making campaign hires:
1. A ex-CIA guy who dislikes Israel and thinks America (under the bidding of the Israel lobby) are the cause for all the evil and sorrow in the know universe. Who writes for a leftist, bash america site (The Huffington Post).
2. A guy who took bribes for making Abramoff look good. Over a period of ten years. Who also thinks America is the problem. Who writes for a blatantly anti-american site (Antiwar.com).
So Herr Doktors campaign is chock full of America haters, blame America firsters, and anti-war wackos and has more than it's share of (at the very least) borderline anti-semites. On top of that I guess you could add a bit of good old fashioned cronyism (in the sense that all these guys just don't seem to care very much for the US) and would undoubtedly have positions as stated earlier in Herr Doktor's administration.
Then throw in a dash of good old fashioned criminality and scandal and there you have it - a bunch of Washington insider anti-american pukes not fit to wipe a decent Americans butt.
I thought you Paulbots out there were supporting something different?
Let's recap: Herr Doktor has been exposed as a hypocrite with his stance on earmarks (he'll request them and spend the money before he votes against them); he cavorts with the blame America first crowd and 9/11 truthers (though he has "disavowed' any belief in trutherism, his continued carousing with Truthers like Alex Jones probably belie his true feelings) and he HAS stated he did think there were coverups by the government on the investigation BTW; racists and bigots like David Duke and Don black have endorsed him and donated money to his presidential campaign (which he refused to return - he can't control who sends him money ya know); he knew absolutely NOTHING and NEVER READ ANY of those racist, hate filled and bigoted newletters (not once in ten years) and has "no idea" who wrote anything in those same newsletters (though his family benefitted financially from those newsletters to the tune of over $900K a year); AND he has failed to win ANY state primary or caucus (though he DID win a lot of straw polls and spammed telephone and internet polls); AND has no chance of getting the nomination of the Republican party...
Oh, and Herr Doktors favorite word so far in any debate is
EMPIRE!!!WHEWWWW! That's just the stuff I can remember off the top of my head!
Of course when Paul finally crashes and burns, you Paulbots and America Haters can always go vote for Hilldog. Seems you, Herr Doktors and his advisers are more in line with the lefts way of thinking anyway.
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HT's: LGF, Lone Star Times)