New Ron Paul Ad Seeks to Prove He’s Not Racist

[bemildred]

Can't just make this stuff up.

A new Ron Paul ad arrived on the heels of controversy surrounding a series of racially charged newsletters published under the GOP presidential candidate’s name in the 1980s and 1990s.

The two-minute video features a black man telling the story of how his sick, pregnant wife (who was white) was denied service at a Texas hospital in the 1970s – where the narrator says there was still a lot of prejudice. Ron Paul, then a physician at the hospital, stepped in to help the couple – delivering a stillborn child, and making sure they were not left with a bill to pay.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/new-ron-paul-ad-seeks-to-prove-not-racist.html

[marmar]

1. Some of my best patients are black.

nt

[yardwork]

2. Exactly.

[ProSense]

12. I know Paul is older

but it says he doesn't remember the incident?

The ad was produced by the Super PAC supporting Paul – Revolution PAC – and not by the Paul campaign. When played for him, Paul said he didn’t remember the incident but just believed that it was his responsibility to help, and thought it was “magnificent” how grateful the man was.

Bizarre!

[limpyhobbler]

3. it's unlikely that Ron Paul let this baby die just because it was mixed race. n/t

[marmar]

5. Who said he did?

nt

[limpyhobbler]

6. nobody said that. I just think it's unlikely Ron Paul would do that. n/t

[Bucky]

10. !

[ProSense]

4. Hmmm?

"The two-minute video features a black man telling the story of how his sick, pregnant wife (who was white) was denied service at a Texas hospital in the 1970s..."

So why didn't he help his campaign manager?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/100288476

And why did he write that crazy book years later?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/100296072

Why is he still pandering to racists? Why does he want to repeal the Civil Rights Act?

Paul is a lunatic.

[digonswine]

7. He is not a witch-he is you.

[PeaceNikki]

8. But does he have "a black friend"?

[ProSense]

11. It's

really bizarre. This from a guy who claimed that dying without health care is what freedom is all about.

[oldhippydude]

9. kind of has

a certain Christine O'Donnel ring to it.. "i'm not a witch"

[cthulu2016]

13. Unleash the stock photographs!