Friday, May 16, 2008

Ron Paul: Man of Compassion

Sure, it's a symbolic gesture and usually when it comes to something like this the votes are unanimous.

So when a congressional resolution came up this week offering "condolences and sympathy" to the people of Myanmar, guess who was the only member of Congress to vote against it?
Paul fans -- regularly called Paulites, Paultards or Paulunteers -- also see a gentle humility in the weathered but wise hands of the 72-year-old ob-gyn, who reputedly has delivered some 4,000 infants into life in this wondrous world.

But there seems to be another side to Paul. A mean, vicious, cruel and uncaring side. A side that sees millions of humans -- albeit Burmese who are not registered to vote in Texas -- afflicted with an historic cyclone, countless thousands of lives lost, devastation everywhere.

And the doting grandfather could care less.

This week when a Congressional resolution came up for a vote merely offering "condolences and sympathy" to the people of Burma affected by the recent deadly cyclone, Ron Paul, the millionaire, was the only member of the entire House of Representatives to vote "No."

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