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In reply to the discussion: Anti-Obama former top aide to Alan Grayson writes love letter to Ron Paul on CT blog [View all]MH1
(17,600 posts)22. Because I've had my very own personal experience with Stoller.
It's been a couple years so maybe he's grown up, but infatuation with Ron Paul would fit right in with the immaturity Stoller showed in my previous experience with him.
I am not going to post the details of my experience. Suffice to say I don't trust Stoller as far as I can throw him, I think he's personally a jerk, I wouldn't hire him to clean my cat box, and if that caused me to be a 'sucker' for an inaccurate but yet still fitting post about him, so be it.
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Anti-Obama former top aide to Alan Grayson writes love letter to Ron Paul on CT blog [View all]
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Jan 2012
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Stoller is saying that the system is rotten, Obama is part of the problem, and libertarians
leveymg
Jan 2012
#4
I caught a piece on NPR earlier in which they interviewed several under-30 types at a Paul Rally.
PeaceNikki
Jan 2012
#6
this was a dominant theme at our holiday family gatherings -- vote for the outsider.
nashville_brook
Jan 2012
#18
The misnamed "audit the Fed" bill passed as part of Dodd-Frank and turned out to be
banned from Kos
Jan 2012
#25
yeah - the "audit" listed the loans. That is what central banks do - they make emergency loans.
banned from Kos
Jan 2012
#38
The key argument seems to be that there's a touch of statism at the heart of liberalism
starroute
Jan 2012
#14
The decision to let the big fish fascisti go and haul in some small fry instead was also made by
leveymg
Jan 2012
#46
Ex parte Quirin draws precedence from the military tribunals of the Civil War era.
leveymg
Jan 2012
#47
well said -- just finished reading the Stoller piece, and it's clearly not a love letter
nashville_brook
Jan 2012
#15
Not close. Primary dealers do auction Treasuries but that is 1/100 of what the public Fed does.
banned from Kos
Jan 2012
#33
Meanwhile, would you care to comment on the points in my post about libertarianism?
MH1
Jan 2012
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