A voter calls out Giulliani and Romney for trying to find excuses to duck the YouTube debate. He calls them a variation on what I called them: fraidycat. And — no surprise — he comes around to say the real reason they’re scared is because they don’t want to face Ron Paul. Ron Paul is everywhere.
The Channel 08 blog has the latest on the tango over the debate: It might be rescheduled.
Ron Paul’s campaign puts up a video from Ron Paul’s visit to Google, starting with a song: If You Google Ron Paul. The people who are really running the world seem to like him.
Sound bite from the lyrics: Last chance to restore our freee-eee-eee-dom. Last chance to save our Cons-tis-tooo-shun. Cons-tis-tooo-shun. Cons-tis-tooo-shun.”
Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister, gives the sermon in a Little Rock church and here it is on YouTube.
Sound bite: “There is no group plan for going to heaven. I’m not going to heaven because I’m an American. I’m not going to heaven because I’m a member of a particular denomination.”
The question right now is whether you’re going to the White House first.
The candidates are finally taking questions on YouTube and answering them directly. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they go after the softballs. All they’re really doing is going to look for the questions they wish they’d been asked.
Here’s Mike Gravel on Iraq:
And here’s Dennis Kucinich, again, on impeachment:
Imagine if we’d had video cameras in the ’60s (OK, I’m speaking as someone who was old enough to be around in the ’60s; caught me). I wish old activist Tom Hayden had speculated what he could have done. Instead, he waxes philosophical about the power of the camera in politics.
Sound bite: “Everyone should have a camera…. You can’t really confront power with a camera. But you can expose power. You can disconnect power from its authority by showing how power is wielded. So there is potential democratizing of society if you have nonconformists with video cameras.”
