{"id":18,"date":"2008-02-08T14:16:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T19:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2008-02-08T14:19:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T19:19:42","slug":"ron-paul-at-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul at Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ron_paul_300.jpg\" alt=\"ron_paul_300.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a good stump speech, his points were good and well presented. Paul spoke for about an hour to a mostly enthusiastic crowd.\u00a0 He brought his message of small government and fiscal responsibility, while adding references to his Christian faith and pro-life stance on abortion.\u00a0 He suggested the <st1:place w:st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:place> withdraw from the United Nations, and abolish both the Department of Education and national income tax.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards many students that I spoke with were confused as to why the MSM characterizes him as a lunatic, because they found him to very likable and intelligent. Also, his staffers were collecting signatures for a Ron Paul presidential run in Virginia. They talked as if he will be on the ballot no matter what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a good stump speech, his points were good and well presented. Paul spoke for about an hour to a mostly enthusiastic crowd.\u00a0 He&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=18\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ron Paul at Liberty<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ron_paul_300.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}