About a year ago Ron Paul agreed to stand as a candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the USA. He was reluctant to stand as he doubted there would be wide support for the idea of restoring America as the "land of the free and the home of the brave". But he was persuaded to stand. In the last year many diverse and loose groupings of people from all walks of life and all across the political spectrum and, indeed, all across the world have come together in support of...

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..... but Willie Nelson sounds like an interesting guy.

Listen to the interview here.

It wasn't that many years ago that I believed the b/s about the integrity of the BBC and how it is respected around the world.

Here are a couple of facts. The presidential nomination candidates released their campaign funding figures a couple of days ago. Ron  Paul raised more money than any other Republican candidate in the last quarter of 2007 to which the report relates with $19.5 million. The figure is more than twice that raised by any other Republican candidate from their own grass roots support. Does that tell you he is lacking support?

The BBC reports this here.

Ron Paul is under a media blackout and it even reaches that bastion of integrity our beloved BBC.

Let's pretend the BBC isn't aware of the media blackout. Don't you think that someone there would see there is a story in this? How come Ron Paul has so much popular support and yet this isn't being translated into votes?

But then they give it away right at the end of the piece. The text of the article ends with "Whether he can make more of an impact at the polls remains to be seen." This is followed by a diagram that graphically allows us to compare the remaining candidates and guess what? Ron Paul isn't included.