{"id":340881,"date":"2010-02-19T18:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77163"},"modified":"2010-02-19T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T23:01:40","slug":"ron-paul-at-cpac-all-about-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/340881","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul at CPAC: All About War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ballroom was packed for Rep. Ron Paul&#8217;s (R-Texas) CPAC speech &#8212; the doors were shut for a good 30 minutes before the speech began. And to the strains of &#8220;We Will Rock You,&#8221; Paul took the stage and happily took credit for being right about the economic collapse before anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That big crash, it came,&#8221; said Paul! &#8220;And all of a sudden, I was on Fox News 60 times!&#8221;<span id=\"more-77163\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Curiously, Paul spent very little of his speech taking victory laps and much of it on an extended meditation about civil liberties and preemptive war. A crowd that had heard a lot of anti-liberal history lessons &#8212; and paid attention &#8212; was treated to a lecture about the Red Scare and George W. Bush&#8217;s 2000 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ballroom was packed for Rep. Ron Paul&#8217;s (R-Texas) CPAC speech &#8212; the doors were shut for a good 30 minutes before the speech began. And to the strains of &#8220;We Will Rock You,&#8221; Paul took the stage and happily took credit for being right about the economic collapse before anyone else. &#8220;That big crash, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}