Well, I’ll say this much. It’s better than the first commercial, mostly because it’s just the candidate talking about what he believes. The message pure end the Iraq War and bring the troops home from everywhere. with a paen to something that the United States Government hasn’t seen in a long time — a balanced budget.
But what’s this about saving money to “help people who need it” ? I thought we were talking about cutting the budget to the bone and letting me keep my money, not changing our foreign policy so we can keep some semblance of a welfare state (i.e., Social Security and Medicare) alive.
Yes, I know this is meant for people who aren’t exactly true believers, but what’s the point of making them think that all you want to do is bring the troops home so that we can save a social welfare scheme that was doomed to fail the day FDR proposed it ?
That said, this ad is much better than the first one.
November 5th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
if you stop funding the welfare state, those dependent on it would suffer tremdously. So using the money that is being spent on our foreign policy and putting it into weening our people off dependency and into self reliance would be well spent.
The money that is currently funding the welfare state could be cut back or elimiated immediately. That’s is the money savings that you are looking for. Increased prosperity will also raise all boats including yours.
November 8th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
By the same line of reasoning, the past ~25 years of mideast geopolitics has grown out of American oil interests. Remove the weight of the American military -however morally correct such a move might be- and you create a void in the region. Whether the mideast powers can shift peacefully, with a nuclearized Israel, Pakistan, India, and Iran, or whether a seismic implosion occurs, I don’t think anyone can predict exactly.
I prefer a complete military pull-out, as Paul wants, with all its risks, versus tightening our geopolitical hold on the region, as Clinton or any of the other Repubs would surely do. If nothing else, it will begin to fortify the moral high ground we claim in global (oil) affairs.
Anyway that’s my two cents. I really just wonder why no one has called Paul on his foreign policy in this regard. (Probably because everyone’s still pretending he isn’t there)