Judge Andrew Napolitano on his radio show this morning pulled no punches when discussing the viability of Sarah Palin as the next President of the United States. I couldn’t agree with his blunt assessment more. He said:
“I just don’t think she possesses the mental capacity to be the President of the United States. She’s a goofball!”
So everyone’s favorite host of Freedom Watch has weighed in on Sarah Palin. To me, she’s a completely divisive figure. People seem to either idolize her or loathe her. I don’t think she has much chance of being the next POTUS. In fact, I’d be surprised if she did better than Giuliani did in the GOP primaries of 2008.
For more about what lead up to the Judge’s “straight talk” listen to the audio:
by John Browne – Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital
In a small bit of Washington irony, a government panel convened this week under the guise of ensuring ‘expressive freedom’ on the Internet, while at the same time the Obama Administration put Fox News on notice that ideological rectitude would be a prerequisite for White House engagement.
This heightened wrangling with the media comes at a time when ordinary Americans are rapidly becoming disillusioned with the major parties. Their disgust is evident in innumerable web discussion sites that, for many, have replaced the major media outlets as the primary source of information. In its focus to keep control of the conversation, the Administration is seeking to disguise the fact that the ‘change’ Mr. Obama promised in the election is unlikely to materialize.
Wishful thinking of the Nobel committee aside, what we have seen thus far from Obama is simply more of what had been delivered by the prior administration.
Obama renewed our military commitment to the quagmire that is Afghanistan. But he is hesitating now that the United Nations has uncovered fraud in the recent presidential elections there. Whether or not one believes the war is winnable, this type of hollow chest-pounding did not help anyone under G. W. Bush, and will not under Obama.
Ron Paul has been making the media rounds this week delivering his no-nonsense wisdom and promoting his new book, “”. Of course a few of them aren’t exactly main stream media outlets. Here is a rundown of his recent media appearances.
Quote of the Day: “80% of success is just showing up” — Woody Allen
Subject: Tune-in to the Jerry Hughes show TODAY
Our new media outreach efforts are picking up steam. There are several items of good news. First . . .
Jim Babka will be guest hosting the Jerry Hughes national radio talk show today. He’ll be interviewing . . .
* Dr. Rand Paul, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky, and the son of Congressman Ron Paul.
* Peter Schiff, President of Euro Pacific Capital, frequent TV commentator, and candidate for Chris Dodd’s Senate seat in Connecticut
If you want to hear about Rand Paul’s and Peter Schiff’s Senate campaigns please tune-in to hear Jim guest-host the Jerry Hughes show today. You can listen on the Internet . . .
They ran it, Wednesday, as their “VideoNetDaily” pick.
And finally, there’s been an explosion this week in media coverage of the “Read the Bills” idea, but we want to save the details on this one for next week. Stay tuned.
Earlier we posted a perfect example of media bias from MSNBC. Now it’s time to give credit to USA Today/Gannett and Chuck Raasch who, ironically in an opinion piece, shows zero bias in reporting that Ron Paul is still a player in national politics. Most of the article are simply assorted quotes from Ron Paul himself that demonstrate his views, unlike most politicians, remain the same no matter how the political landscape morphs around us.
WASHINGTON — A year after he became a surprise of the Republican presidential field, Ron Paul is still on message.
“It is surreal that in a free country we are talking only about HOW government should fix health care, rather than WHY government should fix health care,” Paul, a Texas congressman and medical doctor, wrote in a recent Internet posting. “This should be between doctors and patients.”
Running for president in 2008, Paul raised more than $33 million and built a robust Internet following. It didn’t always translate into votes and never produced a primary victory, but it did help the libertarian build a platform for his free-market philosophy. And he’s using it to sing a decidedly different song from Democratic and Republican choruses in Washington.
- On the “Cash for Clunkers” program that gives government aid for people trading in old gas guzzlers, which will then be destroyed: a bad idea because it destroys a vital market for the poor.
“A new driver or new worker needs a cheap car,” Paul said.
Perhaps the headline above should read MSNBC turns blacks and whites against each other. In the clip below MSNBC reports on the gun carrying “racists” at Obama’s town hall meetings. The footage they show of the man carrying the rifle does not reveal the man’s face nor skin color. The man is black.
The reason they choose these camera angles becomes obvious as the report unfolds. Revealing the man’s race would not fit their version of the story. They’d look idiotic if they talked about all these “white people” carrying guns at Obama events if the one they showed was actually black. As it turns out they look not only idiotic but extremely biased.
By the way, what former Presidential assassin goes by the name “Mark” Hinckley? At least that comment appears accidental.
During Ron Paul’s Presidential campaign of 2008 I was fortunate enough to attend a PBS debate in Baltimore, MD and witness some of that that magical Ron Paul truth in person. Following the debate all the other candidates sauntered off the stage. Ron Paul immediately headed toward the audience where he was mobbed by his supporters for autographs and handshakes. A girl near me was having trouble breathing because she was so excited to “meet” Dr. Paul. Ron Paul had acheived rock star status.
I’m thinking of this now because it seems every time I read something from Robert Higgs I approach that same feeling. Higgs is a liberty rock star. In a recent article he annihilates the pro-regulatory power-grabbing bottom-feeders of our government.
Even if systemic risk does exist, why should anyone believe that the fakers and time-servers employed by a government regulatory agency will have the ability to gauge its magnitude and to identify the specific firms that must be eased away from the precipice—always, of course, at the great expense of taxpayers and holders of dollar-denominated assets?
Let’s be frank: systemic risk is the greatest—and perhaps the phoniest—excuse for unwarranted bailouts ever devised by the mind of man.
In response to the Daily Telegraph’s release of its report on the prisoner photos, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs not only denied the accuracy of the report, but issued a rather peculiar statement about the British Press in general.
“If I wanted to read a write-up today of how Manchester United fared last night in the Champions League cup, I might open up a British newspaper. If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I’m not sure it would be the first stack of clips I picked up… Again, I think if you do an even moderate Google search, you’re not going to find many of these newspapers and truth within, say, 25 words of each other.”
I’m not even really sure where he’s coming from on this one. The Daily Telegraph is not a British tabloid – it’s by all accounts a credible newspaper which has the largest circulation of any in the United Kingdom. Further, the report isn’t from an anonymous source – it quotes American Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who actually agrees with the Obama Administration when it comes to not releasing the photos, using their sensational nature as his justification. Is Gibbs really disputing the reporting of Taguba’s statements, or Taguba, the man who carried out the investigation of Abu Ghraib, himself?
On second thought, maybe I can see why he’d target the press.
Update: Was Gibbs right afterall? Taguba is now stating he never saw the photos in question, but rather was speaking generally about photos which have already been released, and was taken out of context.
During the beginning of the financial crisis Ron Paul was asked in many interviews for some of the steps he would take to help fix the situation. His answer was always more regulation for the regulators, such as the Federal Reserve. This concept struck me as a bit of infinite circular logic. When we regulate the regulators then we merely create more regulators that may need regulating. Where does it end?
Of course, the ultimate regulators are individuals like you and me. Through the political process we can regulate the poor performing stooges out of office. Strangely enough that rarely happens. The Peter Principle is alive and well within our lawmaking bodies. So this calls into question the political process itself. How is it possible to unwind the tightly bound, knotted, and tangled ball of yarn that is politics in the U.S.A. today? Should we consider tossing it in the trash and seeking a replacement? Is it fixable?
From FreedomWatchOnFox.com we get the guest and topic list for Judge Napolitano’s Freedom Watch today at 2PM Eastern:
Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano continues with its 11th show tomorrow. Looks like it will be another great one. Here is the rundown on guests and topics:
Guests:
Glenn Beck
Ron Paul
Lew Rockwell
Jim Bovard – The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF)
Shelly Roche – Doing the Twitter and interactive thing again
Pastor Steve Anderson – Pastor who was tazed and beaten at a border checkpoint.
Topics:
DHS/FBI report on right-wing extremism
Torture Memos
“Constitution-free” zones
Secession
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by John Browne – Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital
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