Is Ron Paul back? RP vs Obama would be the cleanest election
February 23, 2008 by drsubrotoroy
Justin Raimondo reports a scoop that Ron Paul remains in the US Presidential campaign. America would have seen its cleanest, finest Presidential contest in living memory, perhaps in history, if RP had been the Republican candidate and Barak Obama the Democratic candidate.
I understand that Obama studied the Constitution and I wish he were asked to explain his thinking on the oath he would take if he were elected to the presidency.
In particular I wish anyone elected to the presidency or in the race were asked about Article 1 Sections 8 and 9 because they are the sections in which the Founders stated explicitly just what powers were either granted or forbidden to the Congress.
Obama is charming and can inspire with his rhetoric but from what he has said it is clear that he is basically an Altruist. He believes that man is his brother’s keeper. He said so! He then said, “But you haven’t given enough yet!”
Altruism is commonly understood in its most euphemistic form: It is better to give than to receive. Fundamentally Altruism asserts that human beings are sacrificial animals and that it is justifiable to sacrifice or enslave some for the benefit of others who are in need.
Hillary is also an Altruist and is clearly willing to force, compel, mandate that everyone participate in her favorite government program, universal health, as she considers that the interests of the state take precedence over those of the individual. To Hillary the ends justify the means. She will take an oath to uphold the Constitution which includes the Amendments which ended slavery. Her oath will be meaningless to her because she will fight to get the Congress to pass her legislation which would force or mandate and she will not be asked if she realizes that would be in violation of the Constitutional limits on government power.
Freedom of the individual was the guiding principle of the Founders and it is the guiding principle of Ron Paul and he means it whereas the others will pay lip service to it.
The limits of governmental power in the constitution have already been broached, calling upon them in opposition to universal health care is just ridiculous. It’s not the interests of the state that take precedence over the individual, it’s the interest of the individual, namely the lower-class individual who needs health insurance, and both Obama’s and Clinton’s plan will take this country one-step closer to the socialized medicine it needs.