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(Wonkette) Amusing "The Revolution: A Manifesto" by Ron Paul went on sale yesterday, and already the Amazon user reviews are full of crazy   (wonkette.com) divider line 947
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Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 09:48:07 AM  
RON PAUL

 
tequila party [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 09:49:07 AM  
i like ron paul, but should he really be charging for a manifesto?

 
mryoop789 [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 09:50:45 AM  
"Well, that gets us through page 4 of 11. Those comments are to Amazon.com what Dave Ramsey is to personal finance."

hahaha

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 09:52:03 AM  
RON PAUL

 
netweavr [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 09:52:32 AM  
tequila party: i like ron paul, but should he really be charging for a manifesto?

He used his campaign funds to start a for-profit publishing company.

Think about it, this guy is a scam artist.

 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 09:54:00 AM  
Nestea Plunge: It's harder to admit that some of his ideas actually have some merit, which they do.

It's even harder to admit that a lot of his ideas are complete idiocy, which they are.

 
Three Crooked Squirrels [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 09:54:37 AM  
Nestea Plunge: It's easy to call him crazy, that's what most people do. It's harder to admit that some of his ideas actually have some merit, which they do.

Very few people call him crazy. Most just call his supporters crazy, whether warranted or not.

 
burndtdan 2008-05-01 09:56:11 AM  
Nestea Plunge: It's easy to call him crazy, that's what most people do. It's harder to admit that some of his ideas actually have some merit, which they do.

i always thought his foreign policy of ending american neo-imperialism had some merit. the same with questioning the very existence of government programs, and cutting the ones that we don't really need.

 
2wolves 2008-05-01 09:56:19 AM  
Patsy Cline approves.

 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 09:57:52 AM  
I do like my juicer.

 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 09:58:31 AM  
Nestea Plunge: You see what you just did there?

Yes, yes I do.

 
Nabb1 [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 09:59:48 AM  
Meh. I'll give it a read for twelve bucks. Lord knows I've spent twice as much on worse. I'm looking at you, "DaVinci Code."

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:00:27 AM  
Pocket Ninja: RON PAUL
eddyatwork: RON PAUL

RON PAUL

 
netweavr [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:01:11 AM  
Nabb1: Meh. I'll give it a read for twelve bucks. Lord knows I've spent twice as much on worse. I'm looking at you, "DaVinci Code."

You don't need to. Read the comments, people are buying the book 12 at a time just to give away.

Of course they're probably buying it with stolen credit cards.

 
cwick [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:05:37 AM  
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I do like my juicer booze.

FTFY

 
netweavr [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:07:40 AM  
Okay, Ron Paul nut jobs. If you buy (new window)me the book. I will read it.

 
benlonghair [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:11:08 AM  
I haven't read this book, yet, but I have to think that the 'crazy' mentioned are people who for years have felt like they're being lied to.

I feel it every day. There may not be a cohesive plan to take freedoms away, but everytime there is a chance to err on the side of freedom, it seems like the government ignores it. Take away a group or person's free speech because somebody is offended. Take away (or try to) someone's right to decide what substances to put into their bodies. The list goes on and on.

If you believe that there isn't some sort of grand power-grab going on in Washington, you're blind or willfuly ignorant.

Once again, if it's not working, do it more, that's the mantra of our government. Pump money into the War on Drugs, No Child Left Behind, the War on Terrorism, the War on Poverty. None of them work, yet they (and indirectly we) continue to support these programs.

Maybe people should wake up and listen to reason from time to time.

 
benlonghair [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:12:34 AM  
netweavr: Okay, Ron Paul nut jobs. If you buy (new window)me the book. I will read it.

Instead, go get Ishmael from the library. It will open your eyes.

 
phartnocker 2008-05-01 10:12:43 AM  
"...how Congress-both Republican and Democratic-has allowed the Executive to attack our civil liberties, sustain executive warmaking never intended by the Founding Fathers, and precipitated an unprecedented financial crisis."

What's so crazy about that...?

/not a RON PAUL guy.

 
FunkOut [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:13:11 AM  
But are the reviews as crazy as the one's for Family Circus books and Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 gallon?

 
FunkOut [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:13:48 AM  
FunkOut: But are the reviews as crazy as the one's for Family Circus books and Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 gallon?

Oh, shiat, a misplaced apostrophe. Bob the Angry Flower is going to farking kill me.

 
rufus-t-firefly [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:13:52 AM  
I'm a very enthusiastic Ron Paul supporter, so of course I had to buy several copies of the book along with the audio version. Having the audio allows me to listen to his common sense while I work, while also broadcasting those ideas in my shop to all of my daily customers, hence spreading the message effortlessly. An additional instance occurred as I witnessed my daughter(she's nine) listening to the audio cd's in private with her earphones, while reading along; a great way to expand her economic vocabulary!"


And Obama supporters are supposed to be the cultists?

 
onesidedsquare 2008-05-01 10:13:57 AM  
ugh i can't believe i just clicked on a wonkette link again, must..go...counter..with...littlegreenfootballs....

 
TMBGfreak 2008-05-01 10:13:58 AM  
GAT_00: Pocket Ninja: RON PAUL
eddyatwork: RON PAUL

RON PAUL


RON PAUL!

 
geggy 2008-05-01 10:14:10 AM  
I like how some trendy people put more effort in attempting to smear and expose the lies of ron paul rather than hillary clinton or john mccain, both of whom are even more giantic douchebags AND leading ron paul.

 
guilt by association 2008-05-01 10:15:42 AM  
TMBGfreak: GAT_00: Pocket Ninja: RON PAUL
eddyatwork: RON PAUL

RON PAUL

RON PAUL!


RON PAUL

 
benlonghair [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:16:47 AM  
geggy: I like how some trendy people put more effort in attempting to smear and expose the lies of ron paul rather than hillary clinton or john mccain, both of whom are even more giantic douchebags AND leading ron paul.

It's because they are lulled to intelectual sleep by Mother Culture who tells us "It has to be this way, it's always been this way, there's no other way, why even bother trying?".

 
geggy 2008-05-01 10:16:50 AM  
wait wait this is my favorite one, if ron paul's book was already placed as #1 book after only one day, how is it that he is trailing maccain by a large margin?

 
spickus 2008-05-01 10:16:52 AM  
2wolves: Patsy Cline approves.

216.231.173.166

 
Bonkthat_Again [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:17:19 AM  
I shall get the book on my lunch break.

I like him for the simple fact that Republicans, Democrats, and the media shun away from him as if he was a cleric turning undead.

People who get that sort of treatment are either crazy, or they hit a nerve real hard.

At this point in politics, crazy is better than the de facto...though I suspect Ron Paul truly is a representative of the people...possibly the only one.

 
netweavr [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:17:30 AM  
Nestea Plunge: netweavr: Okay, Ron Paul nut jobs. If you buy (new window)me the book. I will read it.

I wish you were dead.


What? If he's not willing to use his own money to start publishing his ideas, why should I use my own money to read his crap?

 
21-7-b 2008-05-01 10:18:36 AM  
I think it is fair to say that Ron Paul has risked his life by identifying the essential elements by which the power élite controls our lives. Dr. Paul is a giant in the fields of sound Constitutional doctrine, sound economics, and the philosophy of freedom.


i've composed a poem title in honor of rp:

oh, brave giant

 
Branch Dravidian [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:19:14 AM  
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/I'm Ron Paul and I approve this message

 
tweekster 2008-05-01 10:19:16 AM  
netweavr: tequila party: i like ron paul, but should he really be charging for a manifesto?

He used his campaign funds to start a for-profit publishing company.

Think about it, this guy is a scam artist.


Atleast he figured out what step 2 is.
I thought he was simply going to retire with the millions that his faithful gave him

 
toonz 2008-05-01 10:19:25 AM  
okay. i'm not a Ron Paul guy, but i've heard (usually while golfing) that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

So when you sane people pick your Republocrat stuffed shirt and the country continues to decline, at least you'll know you have your wits, and the smug satisfaction of keeping the madmen out of the loop, after all hee-hee, it is they who are mad! you ha-ha are not mad! ha-ha-hee-hee.

/probably voting democrat this year just to try to slow the decline, but whatever. we're farked.

 
cartersdad 2008-05-01 10:19:34 AM  
Ron Paul!

Has anyone said that yet?

 
benlonghair [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:20:01 AM  
spickus: 2wolves: Patsy Cline approves.

Not that I'm complaining, but I think you're in the wrong thread.

 
eKonk 2008-05-01 10:20:08 AM  
Has anyone else noticed that this article is about...

RON PAUL?

/ron paul

 
TheCid 2008-05-01 10:20:35 AM  
Ah, Ron Paul. The guy who "supports the Constitution" by wanting to take away SCOTUS oversight of privacy rights and the separation of church and state.

I've actually found the facts about the guy, and he's no libertarian. He's a typical theocratic Republican in disguise. If he had his way individual states could declare an official religion.

Fark that shiat.

 
Smellvin 2008-05-01 10:20:48 AM  
rufus-t-firefly: And Obama supporters are supposed to be the cultists?

While there certainly are some crazy Ron Paul people (possibly even a higher percentage than support other candidates), you can't discount the possibility of people posting ridiculous things like that just to have a giggle.

 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:21:15 AM  
geggy: wait wait this is my favorite one, if ron paul's book was already placed as #1 book after only one day, how is it that he is trailing maccain by a large margin?

Because the average number of books per purchase is probably 20 or 30 copies.

I'm going to build a house...a house made of EVOL

 
TheBlackFlag 2008-05-01 10:21:21 AM  
geggy: I like how some trendy people put more effort in attempting to smear and expose the lies of ron paul rather than hillary clinton or john mccain, both of whom are even more giantic douchebags AND leading ron paul.

Ron Paul is a hypocrite, a liar and is as crazy as a bag-o-cats headin' for the river.

You are right about Hillary, but what does she have to do with how messed up this dude and all the kiddies that follow him.

And your reasoning is cynical. Just because some of the other candidates are bad does not give this whack-o a pass. They ALL get a "FAIL".

PS: Ever notice how all these "Speed Readers" that finish a book on the morning it went on sale and comment on Amazon usually can't even spell? Seems a little suspicious to me.

 
dr grant 2008-05-01 10:21:40 AM  
Colbert 08!

 
schrodinger 2008-05-01 10:21:45 AM  
Nestea Plunge 2008-05-01 09:52:36 AM
It's easy to call him crazy, that's what most people do. It's harder to admit that some of his ideas actually have some merit, which they do.


Wait, I'm confused here. Which manifesto are you referring to?

/Say what you will about Ted Kaczynski, but a lot of his mathematical observations are pretty spot on.
//Therefore, he must also be pretty spot on in regards to everyone else.
///It's easy to call him crazy. That's what most people do.

 
Nemo's Brother 2008-05-01 10:23:37 AM  
It's weird that the two messiahs of Fark are totally opposites in philosophy. Paul an independent (and possibly a Nazi). Obama a straight up Socialist (and possibly a a racist).

 
toonz 2008-05-01 10:24:06 AM  
geggy: wait wait this is my favorite one, if ron paul's book was already placed as #1 book after only one day, how is it that he is trailing maccain by a large margin?

If the last 50 years are any indication, it's because voters and readers are 2 entirely different entities

 
netweavr [TotalFark] 2008-05-01 10:24:23 AM  
Nemo's Brother: It's weird that the two messiahs of Fark are totally opposites in philosophy. Paul an independent (and possibly a Nazi). Obama a straight up Socialist (and possibly a a racist).

What is Colbert?

 
error 303 2008-05-01 10:24:50 AM  
ron paul?

 
wildancrazy159 2008-05-01 10:25:18 AM  
Ron Paul!..?
who is Ron Paul, and does he have a last name?

 
toonz 2008-05-01 10:26:00 AM  
wildancrazy159: Ron Paul!..?
who is Ron Paul, and does he have a last name?


Ron Paul George and Ringo?

 
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