在這個如常地悠閒的星期六早上，茶怪落樓吃過早餐，喝過奶茶，回家看雜誌，Reason月刊今期專題報導Ron Paul，節錄了這位有點cranky的共和黨候選人的一段演說內容，講述三件他不會幹的事件，對茶怪來說像詩一般美妙。第一:「I don't want to run your life. We all have different values. I wouldn't know how to do it, I don't have the authority under the Constitution, and I don't have the moral right.」，第二:「I don't want to run the economy. People run the economy in a free society.」，第三:「I don't want to run the world.... We don't need to be imposing ourselves around the world.」Paul輸硬了，但他的想法正引起很多美國人，特別是年青人的回響。在美國主流政治立場傾向「乜都關政府事」時，當大部分政客都說「選我就乜都惦」，有評論員戲言說Paul是E.T.外星人，因為他的智慧在地球不管用。
2008/01/19
E.T.
在這個如常地悠閒的星期六早上，茶怪落樓吃過早餐，喝過奶茶，回家看雜誌，Reason月刊今期專題報導Ron Paul，節錄了這位有點cranky的共和黨候選人的一段演說內容，講述三件他不會幹的事件，對茶怪來說像詩一般美妙。第一:「I don't want to run your life. We all have different values. I wouldn't know how to do it, I don't have the authority under the Constitution, and I don't have the moral right.」，第二:「I don't want to run the economy. People run the economy in a free society.」，第三:「I don't want to run the world.... We don't need to be imposing ourselves around the world.」Paul輸硬了，但他的想法正引起很多美國人，特別是年青人的回響。在美國主流政治立場傾向「乜都關政府事」時，當大部分政客都說「選我就乜都惦」，有評論員戲言說Paul是E.T.外星人，因為他的智慧在地球不管用。
2007/12/10
Ron Paul
共和黨候選人Ron Paul是2008年美國總統黨選的大冷門，民望遠遠落後於前紐約市市長朱利安尼，但在互聯網上，他的支持度出奇地高，網上籌款更破歷史紀錄，為什麼美國選民對這位1988年大選大敗者如此感興趣?
今期BusinessWeek刊登了CNBC女主播Maria Bartiromo對Paul的專訪，其中可能可以看出端倪。以下轉載了訪問中最後二條問答:
You want to take the troops out of Iraq, but what about Iran? What do we do if other nations turn hostile?
I'd treat them something like what we did with the Soviets. I was called to military duty [as a U.S. Air Force flight surgeon] in the '60s when they were in Cuba, and they had 40,000 nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, and we didn't have to fight them. We didn't have to invade their country. But to deal with terrorism, we can't solve the problem if we don't understand why they [attack us]. And they don't come because we're free and prosperous. They don't go after Switzerland and Sweden and Canada. They come after us because we've occupied their land, and instead of reversing our foreign policy after 9/11, we made it worse by invading two more countries and then threatening a third. Why wouldn't they be angry at us? It would be absolutely bizarre if they weren't. We've been meddling over there for more than 50 years. We overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran in 1953; we were Saddam Hussein's ally and encouraged him to invade Iran. If I was an Iranian, I'd be annoyed myself, you know. So we need to change our policy, and I think we would reduce the danger.
You have vehement new supporters. What's driving the sudden interest in your candidacy?
I think they're sick and tired of what they're getting. They've lost all trust and faith in the government. They believe in the American Dream, and they're getting a nightmare. And they're rallying behind the program I've been working on for 30 years—defending the Constitution, limited government, free markets, sound money, and self-reliance; believing people can take care of themselves better than government can. The nanny state doesn't work, the police state doesn't work, and neither does the warfare. And they know it.
今期BusinessWeek刊登了CNBC女主播Maria Bartiromo對Paul的專訪，其中可能可以看出端倪。以下轉載了訪問中最後二條問答:
You want to take the troops out of Iraq, but what about Iran? What do we do if other nations turn hostile?
I'd treat them something like what we did with the Soviets. I was called to military duty [as a U.S. Air Force flight surgeon] in the '60s when they were in Cuba, and they had 40,000 nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, and we didn't have to fight them. We didn't have to invade their country. But to deal with terrorism, we can't solve the problem if we don't understand why they [attack us]. And they don't come because we're free and prosperous. They don't go after Switzerland and Sweden and Canada. They come after us because we've occupied their land, and instead of reversing our foreign policy after 9/11, we made it worse by invading two more countries and then threatening a third. Why wouldn't they be angry at us? It would be absolutely bizarre if they weren't. We've been meddling over there for more than 50 years. We overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran in 1953; we were Saddam Hussein's ally and encouraged him to invade Iran. If I was an Iranian, I'd be annoyed myself, you know. So we need to change our policy, and I think we would reduce the danger.
You have vehement new supporters. What's driving the sudden interest in your candidacy?
I think they're sick and tired of what they're getting. They've lost all trust and faith in the government. They believe in the American Dream, and they're getting a nightmare. And they're rallying behind the program I've been working on for 30 years—defending the Constitution, limited government, free markets, sound money, and self-reliance; believing people can take care of themselves better than government can. The nanny state doesn't work, the police state doesn't work, and neither does the warfare. And they know it.
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