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Sen. Rand Paul: Break Down the Wall That Separates Us From the ‘Other America’
Time Magazine ^ | January 19, 2015 | Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)

Posted on 01/19/2015 7:49:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal justice system.

In his 1967 address to Stanford University, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of two Americas. He described them as, “two starkly different American experiences that exist side by side.”

In one America, people experienced “the opportunity of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in all its dimensions.” In the other America, people experienced a “daily ugliness” that dashes hope and leaves only “the fatigue of despair.”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Kentucky; Campaign News; Issues; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: blacks; mlk; poverty; randpaul
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The "John Edwards" template, Senator? So you're running for vice president?
1 posted on 01/19/2015 7:49:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More of this crap??? Paul is out of the race even before it has started.


2 posted on 01/19/2015 7:51:03 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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that's *Rant!* Pual

3 posted on 01/19/2015 7:54:22 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I could see where they think a Bush/Paul ticket would do it, but Cruz is slowly peeling off Ron Paul’s people.. I believe with Ron’s assent.


4 posted on 01/19/2015 7:55:48 PM PST by txhurl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here is Navin R Paul starring in The Jerk ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBJDz4ylQO0

He wants us to think he’s black.


5 posted on 01/19/2015 7:56:16 PM PST by boycott
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No. This duality stuff is wrong. Its not us and them. We are one. e pluribus unum. Problem is we have some who want others stuff without earning it. And work hard at making the duality thing seem that it is real.


6 posted on 01/19/2015 7:57:24 PM PST by corkoman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ain’t no breakin down of any walls going on Rand, maybe you haven’t noticed the people burnin down walls, businesses, cars, whatever, not because they don’t have the opportunity of the American dream, but because they are too lazy,and feel that they are owed something for nothing. As far as I’m concerned we need to round up those troglodytes and build one hell of big wall around them.


7 posted on 01/19/2015 7:58:07 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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Preach it, Brother!!


8 posted on 01/19/2015 8:03:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The dumbass doesn’t understand the difference between pandering to the lowest common denominator and honestly reaching out.


9 posted on 01/19/2015 8:20:15 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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In one America, people experienced “the opportunity of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in all its dimensions.” In the other America, people experienced a “daily ugliness” that dashes hope and leaves only “the fatigue of despair.”

Utter nonsense. The opportunity is there for everybody.

Work hard -- get ahead.

10 posted on 01/19/2015 8:20:41 PM PST by FreeReign
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It’s not a wall, Mr. Doofus. It’s a transit highway and social mindset called “the Beltway”.


11 posted on 01/19/2015 8:22:42 PM PST by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“the fatigue of despair.”

This is me since 2009.


12 posted on 01/19/2015 8:23:20 PM PST by funfan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Please, keep us safe and build walls!


13 posted on 01/19/2015 8:31:08 PM PST by MNDude
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Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s ‘Great Wall’ to keep out ISIL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3247948/posts


14 posted on 01/19/2015 8:32:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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Rand has lost his appeal. Widely so.
He's making a mistake to continue down the path where he lost it to begin with.
He will wind up with under 2 percent of the votes if he keeps up this left-wing socialist demagoguery
15 posted on 01/19/2015 8:35:22 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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“Congressman John Lewis, who heroically marched in Selma, still sees two Americas. He writes: “One group of people in this country can expect the institutions of government to bend in their favor, no matter that they are supposedly regulated by impartial law.””

True - but he has the wrong group in mind.


16 posted on 01/19/2015 8:50:31 PM PST by aquila48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Funny how the fatigue of despair never stops them from partying, fighting, rioting, and breeding. Lots of energy there.


17 posted on 01/19/2015 8:51:35 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is this babble from Paul.

Sounds like something his dad would say.

Rand Paul is a nut case.


18 posted on 01/19/2015 8:58:48 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: EagleUSA; 2ndDivisionVet

Paul is on a fool’s errand with his “big tent” outreach campaign.

Not only is he not going to convert any of the unconvertibles, but he’s going to lose those that might have been on his side.


19 posted on 01/19/2015 8:58:53 PM PST by aquila48
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You can’t do anything with people locked, by choice, into a dysfunctional culture.


20 posted on 01/20/2015 1:05:45 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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