Say What?!?!?!?

(Oliver) "Stone said in 2008 that he backed Obama, but earlier this year said that he would support GOP Rep. Ron Paul over Obama if he could."

Oliver Stone voting for a Republican!?!?!? Next thing you know there will be a pill to cure being gay!!!

This is the content of a real e-mail that I sent to a former friend in December of 2010.  I've not spoken to him since nor he to me.  I called it "Ron Paul's positions suddenly *not* considered completely kooky and nuts - go figure?"

Well, our little housing bubble and bust in St. Louis has pretty well run its course.  There is still a little deflating to go here but for the most part, the fat lady is singing in St. Louis.  So, for my birthday gift to myself, I’m buying a house and getting a Brittany dog this month (or early January, depending upon how long the closing takes).  Things are moving along pretty well so with any luck, I’ll be “puppy shopping” for a Brittany bird dog by the first of the year.
Some markets (like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, *chuckle*) have a little ways to go – they’ve probably got another two years of pain ahead of them to come back to reality but that guess and $3.75 will get you a Starbuck’s coffee.
You know John, anytime that you and/or your ex-girlfriend decided I was some sort of wacko or kook and didn’t want to hear from me anymore, all you had to do was say so.  In truth, I’d rather be told to “f*ck off” than to be snubbed – it isn’t as though I’d go slit my wrists or something (snicker, boo-hoo, snicker).  What an interesting 10 years this decade has been.
You won’t be hearing from me anymore (assuming you even read this).

12/16/10

Baltimore, Maryland – Hey, our old friend Ron Paul is in the news. The New York Times carried an article about him. Astonishingly, it wasn’t negative. Yes, it mentioned that Ron was regarded as a “crank.” But in context, that didn’t seem so bad.“I was with Ron just last week,” said colleague Addison Wiggin. “He was just coming up for the chairmanship of the House subcommittee that oversees the Fed. He said he thought he had a ‘snowball’s chance in Hell’ of getting the post.
“The last time he was in line for it, the Republican hierarchy blocked him. But that was then. This is now.”
A few years ago, everyone hated Ron. The left hated him because he wanted to withdraw funding for its pet projects. The right hated him because he wanted to rein in the US military.
Now, things have turned around. The left likes Ron because he wants to bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. The right likes Ron because he is a consistent opponent of deficit spending.
The young are fascinated by him. What sort of Congressman votes no on his colleagues’ boondoggles? What sort of conservative opposes the Pentagon and calls for an audit of the Fed? What sort of politician sticks to his principles, even when they are out of favor?
Most recently, the right-wingers have been howling for Julian Assange’s blood. They say he’s a “traitor” – despite the fact that as an Australian, he has no loyalty to the US. Sarah Palin says he should be pursued like an Al Qaeda operative (though he has committed no crime, as far as we know). Rep. Peter King asked the Attorney General to name WikiLeaks as a terrorist organization.
But good ol’ Ron keeps his head and his cool. He praises Assange for revealing the “delusional” nature of US foreign policy.
And poor Julian. Half the world wants to see him hang. And for what? He published some documents that US and foreign governments would rather keep secret. It may be a crime; politicians can make anything a crime. But since when was that a sin?
Even as to the crime, we have our doubts. If publishing is a crime, your editor is in trouble. If publishing “sensitive” documents that make US officials look like fools is a crime, we’re all in trouble.
Regards,
Bill Bonner
for The Daily Reckoning

The truth of the matter is that when you look around at the "average voter" and have a 5 minute conversation with him or her, you start to realize that this country doesn't deserve to have leadership like Ron Paul.  It deserves to have "leadership" like "W" or "Barry" or "Nixon".

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.  - Winston Churchill