Aug 30, 2007
I spoke to a group of Ron Paul supporters at the Village Pourhouse
in New York City last night. The NYC Ron Paul Meet-Up
group had invited me to talk about the mainstream
media's misreporting of Ron Paul's burgeoning campaign for the
Presidency.
I was impressed. It's always good meeting people with
whom you have conversed online - in this case, Ryan and Avery and
Kevin. But there was something else in this group.
Here was a group of people, assembled in the back room of a noisy
bar on a hot summer evening. Men and women, different ages,
different accents. Brought together by a desire to truly
improve this country by working to elect a candidate with an
old-fashioned idea: follow the Constitution of the United
States. Don't go to war without a Declaration. Don't
muzzle the media in contradiction of the First
Amendment. Clear, straightforward points, really, that
almost every other politician and public official seem to have
forgotten.
I was impressed. The questions I received were
perceptive. There was something in the air, and it was more
than the fine spirits wafting in from the other room.
It was a different spirit. Democracy. I've seen it a
few times in my life, first hand like this. Eugene McCarthy
challenging Lyndon Johnson to stop the Vietnam War in
1968. Working in his campaign on the streets of New
York. Working for John Lindsay, running for a second
term as Mayor in New York, a year later.
It's rare to see democracy so directly. It was there in the
Village Pourhouse last night. Not like on the
television screen. Right there in the room.
It was good to see.
Stay tuned.