hopefully barack won't be so damn gloomy
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If this doesn't make sense, i suggest reading Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman". Please note that i found this and did not actually make it.
If this doesn't make sense, i suggest reading Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman". Please note that i found this and did not actually make it.
Re: Integrity and the lack there of
Date: 2008-05-06 12:00 pm (UTC)I think the real issue many people have with this is not whether or not Ron Paul is a racist himself. The issue is more subtle: He's traditionally had the support of various racist organizations, like Stormfront. Therefore, whether or not he actually shared their opinion or not, it would be beneficial to him to appear to be racist, and thus he might have tacitly approved of the publication of those texts.
That would be pretty unprincipled and telling of self-serving, and when you're dealing with a libertarian, selfishness isn't exactly uncommon, so therefore it is unsettling.
The fact that he just brushed this off without really addressing it, or giving any explanation for how those texts got published in the first place - all we have is second-guessing like "he was too busy to keep up with his own paper" - the whole thing just smells very fishy.
Basically, it may be nothing, but he certainly hasn't done a good job of demonstrating this, and that in itself makes it worse.