Visit Your Local PBS Station PBS Home PBS Home Programs A-Z TV Schedules Watch Video Donate Shop PBS Search PBS

Program
Support
From:
ABOUT US  |  LOCAL TV LISTINGS    EMAIL   PRINT      
PBS NewsHour
TopicsVideoRecent ProgramsTeacher ResourcesThe Rundown: news blogSubscribe rss | podcast


REGION: North America
TOPIC: Politics
Online NewsHour
Vote 2008THE PRIMARIES
IN THE NEWS
Analysis

« Previous Entry | Main | Next Entry »

Posted: August 24, 2007 4:09 PM
Ron Paul: He's Big in Europe
Email This

While Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, enjoys a loyal and tenacious, if tiny, following in the United States, he also has a presence in Europe and Asia. Thanks to his grassroots support on the Internet, a host of blogs all over the world advertise for the only anti-Iraq war Republican in the race.

Europeans for Ron Paul lists links to a dozen Paul-supporting blogs representing as many countries, including Britain, France, India and Brazil. These blogs feature original YouTube videos in their native languages. One particular video posted on Bavarians for Ron Paul combines Henry David Thoreau, the American Revolution and hip-hop.

Belgians for Ron Paul features a video in English, A Cry for Ron Paul, which calls for a politician with Paul’s libertarian ideals to free Belgium from what is portrayed as the excessive power and bureaucracy of the European Union and other governments.

Paul supporters from America post messages of encouragement on the blogs, thanking the creators for their efforts and wishing their European allies luck in finding a similar politician on their own continent.

In one YouTube video, Paul answers question for the video-game cable channel G4, where he talks about his Internet support and his disdain for federal regulation of media.

On Paul’s Web site, meanwhile, his campaign touts his finishes in various straw polls around the country.


-- By , NewsHour with Jim Lehrer | Comments(1) | Link

Comments

If that video doesn't get him elected, this will:

"Paul and his wife, Carol Wells, were married on February 1, 1957. Carol asked Ron to their first date at a Sadie Hawkins dance."

Lettin' the ladies take charge ... Ron Paul-er is baller.

Posted by: Becky | August 24, 2007 4:40 PM

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)





ADDITIONAL FEATURES
  Main: Vote 2008
  Main: 2008 Primaries
  Reporters' Blog
View Entries By:
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
  Joe Biden
Hillary Clinton  Hillary Clinton
Chris Dodd  Chris Dodd
John Edwards  John Edwards
Mike Gravel  Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich   Dennis Kucinich
Barack Obama  Barack Obama
Bill Richardson  Bill Richardson
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
Sam Brownback  Sam Brownback
Jim Gilmore  Jim Gilmore
Rudy Giuliani  Rudy Giuliani
Mike Huckabee  Mike Huckabee
Duncan Hunter   Duncan Hunter
John McCain  John McCain
Ron Paul   Ron Paul
Mitt Romney  Mitt Romney
Tom Tancredo   Tom Tancredo
Fred Thompson   Fred Thompson
Tommy Thompson  Tommy Thompson
Subscriptions

       Vote 2008 Subscriptions 
Topic
Archive
February 2010
Sun  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat
  1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28            
 

Blogroll
Elections on the Web
PrezVid
YouTube: YouChoose 08
TechPresident
National Media
NationalJournal.com - The Gate
Council on Foreign Relations - The Candidates and the World
RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog
Washington Post - The Fix
New York Times - The Caucus
The Hill - Congress Blog
Public Broadcasting
The NPR News Blog
PBS MediaShift
Tavis Smiley: Young Voices
Regional Views
IowaPolitics.com 2008 Caucus Countdown
New Hampshire Presidential Watch
NHPrimary.com
Graniteprof - New Hampshire
S.C. Politics Today
CANDIDATE PROFILES
 DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
  Joe Biden
  Hillary Clinton
  Christopher Dodd
  John Edwards
  Mike Gravel
  Dennis Kucinich
  Barack Obama
  Bill Richardson
 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
  Sam Brownback
  Jim Gilmore
  Rudy Giuliani
  Mike Huckabee
  Duncan Hunter
  John McCain
  Ron Paul
  Mitt Romney
  Tom Tancredo
  Fred Thompson
  Tommy Thompson



The PBS NewsHour is Funded in part by: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Additional Foundation and Corporate Sponsors
Program
Support
From:
Copyright © 1996- MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. All Rights Reserved.