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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstook a peek at the rand paul website, and was amused by the emphasis he put on his pro bono
his pro bono medical work.
so he can give free eye exams to illegal immigrants, but can't help them get proper health coverage?
does anyone else smell the hypocrisy?
(take a look for yourself: https://www.randpaul.com/about)
(or, rather, don't.)
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)The whole anti-goverment shtick is based on the idea that individuals will voluntarily pick up the slack when it comes to the underprivileged. By doing pro bono work, Mr Paul actually lives up to his own standards of behavior for a change.
-- Mal
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)is more to do with the ego rush of being amongst the noblesses rather than making serious changes which will help ppl. which repulbicans are not willing to do.
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)Rand Paul reeks of privilege and hypocrisy, I just don't agree that this is an example of it.
His motivations might be hypocritical -- I'm not inside his mind and wouldn't crawl there on a bet -- but the action is not.
-- Mal
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)doesn't reek of privilege?
his wife's bio is all abt her fundraising activities, if that's not a rich person hobby...
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)At any rate, that's not the question. His bragging may indicate hypocrisy, but the pro bono work does not.
-- Mal
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)you must be old.
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)How you get from Matthew 6 to my age is a puzzler.
-- Mal
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)apparently those kids these days aren't raised w/ proper biblical instruction.
as such your fancy references are lost on me.
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)How long does it take to Google something? You could equally argue my fondness for such references makes me a child of the Information Age, since I expect a reader to be competent to look up any reference he doesn't know. Which you obviously are, since you did.
-- Mal
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)generally my encyclopediac knowledge of worthless trivia is good enuff.
FSogol
(45,360 posts)criticize the fucker.
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)but deluded.
anyhow I was sort of hoping that someone could help me explore this mindset a bit.
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)I'm not the Shadow (ooops, there I go showing my age again!), but it would amaze the hell out of me to find that Mr Paul is anything other than the lowest kind of opportunist and liar.
-- Mal
FSogol
(45,360 posts)Whether it is sincere or not (thinking of Paul Ryan and family washing a food bank's clean pots and pans) is debatable, but there are better avenues to criticize them.
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)it's this kind of hypocrisy (is there a better word?) which galls me most. maybe blindness-to-selfness.
blm
(112,920 posts)against anything that improves the lives of others.