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BladeVenom

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Originally posted by: miketheidiot
i just watched the ron paul interview, fuck that guy is dumb

He's one of the smartest men in congress. Not that the standards there are very high.
 

Phokus

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Originally posted by: BladeVenom
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
i just watched the ron paul interview, fuck that guy is dumb

He's one of the smartest men in congress. Not that the standards there are very high.

He's a gold standard advocate. That makes him extremely dumb actually.
 

Jaskalas

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Originally posted by: jonks
http://www.thedailyshow.com/wa...ocratic-super-majority

The 2 democractic proposals are voted down in committee, but the republican proposal to reinstitute $50M of funding to abstinence education passes.

Lo, the mighty power of the democrats and their super majority:)

Pull some blue dogs out from under the bus and maybe that super majority won't be as impotent as the fringe minority that commands it.
 

StageLeft

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Originally posted by: Phokus
Originally posted by: BladeVenom
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
i just watched the ron paul interview, fuck that guy is dumb

He's one of the smartest men in congress. Not that the standards there are very high.

He's a gold standard advocate. That makes him extremely dumb actually.
A person cannot be summarized in a single sound bite :)

 

cubeless

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: Phokus
Originally posted by: BladeVenom
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
i just watched the ron paul interview, fuck that guy is dumb

He's one of the smartest men in congress. Not that the standards there are very high.

He's a gold standard advocate. That makes him extremely dumb actually.
A person cannot be summarized in a single sound bite :)

thank goodness rp has years of vid and print to prove that he's an idiot, then...
 

kylebisme

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While I have various disagreements with Paul's positions, I take them as differences in opinion rather than evidence of a lack of intellect on his part. So I'm curious, who in congress would the people calling Paul stupid say is considerably more intelligent than him?
 

Atreus21

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Originally posted by: Phokus
Originally posted by: BladeVenom
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
i just watched the ron paul interview, fuck that guy is dumb

He's one of the smartest men in congress. Not that the standards there are very high.

He's a gold standard advocate. That makes him extremely dumb actually.

Is he seriously?

I honestly didn't know that. We agree for once.
 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: Atreus21
Originally posted by: Phokus
Originally posted by: BladeVenom
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
i just watched the ron paul interview, fuck that guy is dumb

He's one of the smartest men in congress. Not that the standards there are very high.

He's a gold standard advocate. That makes him extremely dumb actually.

Is he seriously?

I honestly didn't know that. We agree for once.
Now that can be considered an insult
 

Ronstang

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Originally posted by: Bu B3ar
Originally posted by: Elias824
you get your news from the daily show?

it is the most watched news program of the 18-25 demographic

No wonder that age group is so pathetically stupid when it comes to reality.
 

kylebisme

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Originally posted by: Udgnim
wow the gun death argument by random republican was hilariously bad
Even worse; I wouldn't be surprised if he is one of the guys some here would argue is more intelligent than Ron Paul.
 

miketheidiot

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Originally posted by: BladeVenom
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
i just watched the ron paul interview, fuck that guy is dumb

He's one of the smartest men in congress. Not that the standards there are very high.

the man is a delusional crank, and while there are many dumb people in congress and some very smart ones, paul is not among the latter
 

miketheidiot

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Originally posted by: kylebisme
Mike, who are the smartest congressmen in your book?

of the ones i know (just going off the senate) feingold, schumer, lugar; i've been impressed with both klobuchar and conrad although conrad is pissing me off lately. vitter and a couple of others are supposed to be intelligent as well though i see no evidence of it :p

lets put it another way, congress is full of people with graduate and professional degrees often at elite universities, ron paul is pretty average. Combine that with the level of insanity and un-reality that he advocates, i don't think there is much to use to consider him intelligent, other than the letters after his name. (m.d.)
 

kylebisme

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Originally posted by: miketheidiot
of the ones i know (just going off the senate) feingold, schumer, lugar; i've been impressed with both klobuchar and conrad although conrad is pissing me off lately.

I wouldn't put any notably above Paul in intelect, and am at a loss as to how one rationally would.

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
lets put it another way, congress is full of people with graduate and professional degrees often at elite universities...
Sure, just like the genius who was our previous president had an Ivy League degree.

Originally posted by: miketheidiot
...ron paul is pretty average. Combine that with the level of insanity and un-reality that he advocates, i don't think there is much to use to consider him intelligent...
I get the impression you are simply invoking lack of intellect to explain differences in opinion here, and demeaning him on such a flimsy basis. If we could give our congress a pop quiz on current events, history, or perhaps have them take the ACT, I'd bet Paul would come out better than most.
 

Oceandevi

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Originally posted by: kylebisme
Originally posted by: Oceandevi
Originally posted by: spidey07
I always new that demographic were idiots. This confirms it. It's not a news program, it is a comedy show.
hur hur hur
There is no need to harp on anyone for trivial shit like that. For all any of us know, he may well have hit the "k" but it simply didn't register due to a crumb under the key or such.

oh relax, spidey took it well. Just a simple joke.
 

kylebisme

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I'm just suggesting it would have been more productive if you had actually contributed to the discussion at hand by addressing his argument rather than cracking a joke. Being dyslexic I take particular offense to people ignoring others arguments to attack their spelling or grammar instead.
 

NeoV

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Originally posted by: Bu B3ar
Originally posted by: Elias824
you get your news from the daily show?


it is the most watched news program of the 18-25 demographic


I always new that demographic were idiots. This confirms it. It's not a news program, it is a comedy show.

Leave it to pro-Fox Spidey to tell us what is and it not news.


 

kylebisme

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EXman, the answer to your question is just a bit further down the thread than the post you quoted.

 

Craig234

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He's right. He wasn't saying Schumer is an idiot period, he was saying he's an idiot in his comments that things are 'going great' in that Senate committee currently.
 

dbk

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lol @ Ensign

He can't possibly believe that he's making a legitimate point in this debate...
 

kylebisme

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I wouldn't be surprised if he honestly believed he was doing exactly that, as I've yet to see any limited on the absurdities people can bring themselves to believe.