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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWant to know how badly Rand Paul wants to be president? This bad:
So Much for Non-Interventionism (per a report from the Weekly Standard):
Speaking to a ballroom later, some of the loudest applause for Paul came when he quipped: If the president has no strategy, maybe its time for a new president.
In an emailed comment, however, Paul elaborated by saying: If I were President, I would call a joint session of Congress. I would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy ISIS militarily.
Paul had recently expressed ambivalence about U.S. military action against the Islamist terrorists who are building a state in Iraq and Syria. I have mixed feelings about it, Paul said of U.S. airstrikes against ISIS in early August. Im not saying Im completely opposed to helping with arms or maybe even bombing, he added.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/rand-paul-supports-us-war-middle-east-destroy-isis_804282.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed#.VAYX4HvNZQw.twitter
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Given the incumbent President cannot seek re-election, that issue seems resolved, we're getting a new one in 2016. Then again, maybe Randy Rand is jumping on the "let's impeach Obama" bandwagon. I can see the House and Senate debating this now, "Impeach the President because he didn't send Americans to die!"
Dirt ball.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)You're not going by the Glenn Greenwald playbook.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)And the fearmongering of your pals at Fox and your buddies in the mass media is not a threat.
It is SOP.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)willing to say anything.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)What's the difference between Rand Paul and Vladimir Putin?
One's a raving lunatic, a delusional, naïve, woman-hating fanatic hellbent on controlling the entire planet . . and the other one's Vladimir Putin.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)"One's a raving lunatic, a delusional, naïve, woman-hating fanatic hellbent on controlling the entire planet . . and the other one's Vladimir Putin."
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)One's a raving lunatic, a delusional, naïve, woman-hating fanatic hellbent on controlling the entire planet . . and the other one's Vladimir Putin.
I do so love you Major, great quote!
kentuck
(111,110 posts)to me?
Andy823
(11,495 posts)Just say whatever the group you are talking to wants to hear. He has to cater to the neocon republicans if he wants to wind the nomination, and when he calls Hillary a war hawk he is trying to cater to libertarians and any liberal that he "thinks" will buy his BS and vote vote for him, and I am sure, like Mitt, his views will change from day to day until he loses the nomination for the republican party, and he will lose.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Oh, wait . . .
Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)Cad Bane
(68 posts)Once he does you can guarantee it will be posted here.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)Johonny
(20,888 posts)He's who you want to be or possibly not. Paul 2016.