Ron Paul advocates have found a home here at OpEdnews.com, where they can post their ideas and communicate with a larger audience that includes independents, liberals and progressives. My question is, do you really support your fantastic, new source of information and interaction?
No other website on the Internet lets people post articles and comments as freely as OpEdNews, and this is clearly why Ron Paul supporters have flocked here in droves. Indeed, many of the recently submitted pieces in the article queue are more submissions on the virtues and benefits of voting for Ron Paul.
What many Ron Paul supporters may not realize is how much hard work and money goes into running and maintaining this website for your use, communication and edification. If you want to ensure that OpEdNews is here in the future, you should consider donating whatever you can to help keep the website that you enjoy and use so much up and running.
Rob Kall and his staff work tirelessly day in and day out to keep this website going and to keep articles moving through the article queue, and get them posted on the front page for all to read.
If you are a Ron Paul supporter and you have been using OpEdNews to get the word out on Ron Paul, you should consider giving something back to make sure that the website not only survives, but grows and gets better and better over time.
Dr. John Moffett is an active research neuroscientist in the Washington, DC area, who has published articles on the nervous and immune systems. Dr. Moffett is also the author and webmaster of the political opinion website www.Factinista.org, and is a Managing Editor at OpEdNews.com.
John and very well put. I join you in ecourageing those who read and post to support Op-Ed News. I very much appreciate Rob's allowing all opinions on this site.
As the old saw goes, "If two people are having a discussion in total agreement, one is not necessary."
Thanks for your nice idea.
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Mike Folkerth (99 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 477 comments)
on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 2:44:49 PM
Point well taken. Although I have never posted here before, let be begin by aknowleging you even handed approach to Dr. Paul who has sparked an active interest in politics in me for the first time in my life.
My donation has gone out.
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Robert E. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments)
on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 2:46:31 PM
I personally have been with Rob and opednews from the beginning. I have written over 200 articles for this site (my archive is missing my first year and a half). I have represented opednews on radio talk shows and in DC at conferences. While the gesture is nice, it appears disingenuous when you consider that you have been an ardent anti-Paul writer in recent days. Many people "flock" to this site to express their views about a myriad of topics, not just Ron Paul. So why the singling out of Ron Paul supporters? Why not make a general call for donations for all peoples who enjoy the freedom to post thanks to the hard work of Rob Kall?
I will be honest, the last two pieces I have written about Paul were in defending the truth, not Paul per se. I have no problem with people expressing opinion, but when distortions are packaged as fact it crosses the line, sorry.
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Anthony Wade (134 articles, 2 quicklinks, 44 diaries, 433 comments)
on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 2:57:44 PM
This is my second time to sign up to OpEdnews. I came back curious about what was being said about Ron Paul here from the Google leads. I decided to send Rob Kall money the day he posted his endorsement. ($25.00 because he limited it to GOP, and I would have sent $100 for a 100% endorsement...kinda why I posted to you that I didn't understand why you were only half there) I will do that on line on the 28th of this month. My thought was, "What a great way to show Rob and maybe all these socialists (nothing wrong with being a socialist) who fear Ron Paul, that capitalism works best when applied". Rob Kall deserves a money bomb for his endorsement, and this site should be shared and grown with generous rEVOLutionaries because, as Mr. Meany Moffett challanged, it has a good format and great opportunity for those Paul supporters to share their rEVOLutionary ideas, (because this rEVOLution started with the grassroots, campaign was no where).
It's going to take BOTH sides working together for regime change.
Anyways... Mr. Ward, I love reading you, and want you to know that you are another reason I am sending Rob a little bomb money. ;))
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Jeanette Doney (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 304 comments)
on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 3:46:44 PM
... and I respect what Rob Kall did enough to donate, regardless of the fact that he does not really support Ron Paul. He's got guts, and he is fair. He refrained from banning Ron Paul supporters, the doctor's ideas are in fact getting aired and discussed here, and not being a freeloader, I just donated $60 (got to get that receipt for tax purposes). You are welcome to check.
OK, now that I've paid for my air-time, it's time for a little jest.
John (my tongue is in my cheek), considering that Dr. Paul accepted a donation of $500 from Don Black, and I support Ron Paul. If you think that Dr. Paul should return the Don Black donation, it follows logically that you should wish to return mine. Ha, ha, ha. Just kidding, but seriously you should get a new photo. It is hard to read your articles with you glaring at me like that.
OK, jesting over. Some on this site are a little too "acerbic" for my taste, but I'm sure that even the sourest one is a good person, 'cause my parents raised me right!
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Paul Rye (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 253 comments)
on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 3:37:03 PM
Today's Daily KOS exhumes some recent past writings by "constitutionalist" Ron Paul. Check it out ( DailyKOS, 12/26/07) before you send any more $$ to this Texas survivalist small-town bigot.
I used to think Ron Paul could be a worthy successor to Barry Goldwater (a man I disagreed with almost entirely, but respected for his integrity). Now, I have only contempt for Ron Paul.
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R. Queisser (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 54 comments)
on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 11:36:52 PM
The best the powers that be can dredge up is a 15 year old newsletter, not even written by Paul, and omit the fact that he fired the staffer who did write the blurb.
Oh, why don't you point to the other hit piece on his ties to white supremicist groups which has also been debunked. Keep trying to smear him and you only look more desperate.
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Anthony Wade (134 articles, 2 quicklinks, 44 diaries, 433 comments)
on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 12:45:04 AM
DAILY KOS IS FUNDED BY THE FORD FOUNTATION AND THE FORD FOUNDATION ALSO FUNDS LA RAZA, TO KEEP OUR BORDERS OPEN, THIS IS THE GLOBALIST AT WORK SMEARING RON PAUL, ITS PART OF THE MASS MEDIA DECEPTION AN MISINFORMATION, AND SOME PEOPLE FALL FOR THIS CRAP. JUST( GOOGLE DAILY KOS FORD FOUNDATION) THESE GLOBALIST WILL STOP A NOTHING TO GET ONE OF THEIR CFR CANDIDATES AS PRESIDENT. THEY KNOW THE TV NEW DECEPTION IS NOT WORKING ANY MORE, SO NOW THEIR ON THE NET. SPREADING THEIR DECEPTION, WHEN I HEAR SMEARING I ALWAYS CHECK THE SOURCE. A LOT OF THESE 501 FOUNDATION ARE FRONTS FOR THE CFR GLOBALIST TO FUND THEIR AGENDA, HIDES THE DECEPTION.
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RICHARD SHADE (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 459 comments)
on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 2:52:02 AM
First: The New York Times has issued a retraction on their role in participating in the entire scurrilous, manufactured and coordinated Ron Paul Stormfront slur campaign:
so playing the racist or anti-semite card because you can't argue the issues on merit has been discredited.
Second: I strongly would suggest taking anything that you read on Daily Kos with at least a medium high dose of skepticism since it is a gathering place for haters, anti-American activists, cranks and assorted other miscreants among others and there is no such thing as free speech with a bunch of abusive admins and establishment lackeys censoring and flaming. You are far better off here at Op Ed News where a variety of views are respected.
Just my two cents
EE
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Ed Encho (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 52 diaries, 333 comments)
on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 5:29:20 AM
I've been an Oped news contributor for a long time before I learned of Ron Paul. Just want to be clear on that.
Since 2001, I've had a very odd experience. When I learned that 9/11 was obviously an inside job, and told all of my fellow Democrats, progressives, and liberals I'd worked with on Democratic, human rights, environmental issues for decades . . . suddenly I (we 9/11 truth seekers) were treated like lepors who'd just crawled out from under a rock and tried to invade the progressive movement.
I just bring this up so that no one will misinterpret that I came to OpEd to "use" it as a Ron Paul platform. I've been an OpEd news contributor and promoter, for a long time before Ron Paul became my candidate. And I've been a progressive liberal for 25 years before discovering Ron Paul's revolutionary candidacy.
Now having said that, yes, brilliant idea, we should all donate to OpEd, and also send out links to ours and other OpEd columns that we like to everyone we know, and also post them on every bulletin board we can.
We should all dedicate ourselves to growing readership of OpEd news in every way we can.
We should place links to OpEdNews articles we write or like on Green Party Discussion boards, Ron Paul discussion boards, Democratic Discussion boards, Daily Kos, etc. etc. etc. Also, place them in newsgroups and submit them to your meetup sites, etc. etc.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 11:53:15 PM
The idea to donate to OpEd News has a lot of merit. Rob Kall does an excellent job in presenting this online newspaper, and can use funds to continue this newspaper. However, I think there may be a "slippery slope" here -- people who contribute because OpEd News supports or doesn't support any one candidate or ideology. (And, although I know Rob and don't ever suspect that what he does he does to get money, please don't put Rob into the unenviable position of him begging for money--and hoping what he writes/endorses is the "right" way to earn money to continue the newspaper.) Donate to OpEd News--and donate often--but do it not because Rob agreess with your candidate, but because you want to see a solid news and information medium continue.
--walt brasch, liberal and danged proud of it
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Brasch (54 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 40 comments)
on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 5:16:31 AM
Hmm. Here how I felt. Rob didn't really support the Dr., but he did as Mr. Moffat said give his supporters a home here, on a progressive Democratic website no less. I doubt that Republican websites would be as generous if a similar crowd of noisy rah rah Kucinich supporters had shown up in mass. I think it makes it a special situation. Your concern does you credit, though.
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Paul Rye (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 253 comments)
on Friday, December 28, 2007 at 2:55:22 AM
but John, I would recommend that you replace your photo with one that has a Big Smile................It's kinda like pol-i-t-i-k-ing............heh, heh........
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Ernest (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 129 comments)
on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 5:28:11 AM
You state, "No other website on the Internet lets people post articles and comments as freely as OpEdNews, and this is clearly why Ron Paul supporters have flocked here in droves."
You say there is "clearly" such a correlation. I don't believe one exists. I, for example, support Paul, and have done so here. But I didn't come to Op-Ed News for that reason, as a simple look at my author's page will demonstrate.
I admire your call to support OpEdNews. But I don't see what that has to do with Ron Paul or with supporting Ron Paul, unless you are suggesting that no Ron Paul supporters support OpEdNews and only non-Ron Paul supporters do so.
This, of course, would be a mindless rhetorical device to use, so I won't presume that's what your intent is.
So, then, what does the one have to do with the other?
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Jeremy R. Hammond (19 articles, 0 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 39 comments)
on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 6:15:31 AM
You state, "No other website on the Internet lets people post articles and comments as freely as OpEdNews, and this is clearly why Ron Paul supporters have flocked here in droves."
You say there is "clearly" such a correlation. I don't believe one exists. I, for example, support Paul, and have done so here. But I didn't come to Op-Ed News for that reason, as a simple look at my author's page will demonstrate.
I admire your call to support OpEdNews. But I don't see what that has to do with Ron Paul or with supporting Ron Paul, unless you are suggesting that no Ron Paul supporters support OpEdNews and only non-Ron Paul supporters do so.
This, of course, would be a mindless rhetorical device to use, so I won't presume that's what your intent is.
So, then, what does the one have to do with the other?
Just why is this addressed to "Ron Paul fans"? I'd love to understand the logic behind that one.
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Jeremy R. Hammond (19 articles, 0 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 39 comments)
on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 6:19:28 AM
