Ron Paul Holds Texas Rallies, Clinton And Obama Come To Cleveland
 Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Republican candidate Ron Paul just held two rallies in Texas - one in Austin that saw 4,000-7,000 students at the University of Texas, the other in Killeen near Fort Hood.  Today, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will both be in Cleveland, Ohio for the televised Democratic debate.  We were planning on attending the Democratic debate with our Ron Paul signs at Cleveland State University this evening, where the debate will be held, but unfortunately we're getting snowed in over here.

Not surprisingly, NBC did not invite us to live-blog at the Clinton/Obama debate tonight, though they claim prominent Northeast Ohio bloggers will be there.  Not that we volunteered.

Not long after the Pentagon's announcement that there will be about 8,000 more troops in Iraq by July 2008, presidential candidate Ron Paul sent out an e-mail update about his Killeen, Texas rally (a smaller scale than the Austin rally), in which he said:

"[There] were many active-duty soldiers...and their families.  Whether it was the young man going back to Iraq for his fourth tour, or the sister of a soldier just killed there, they all wanted change in our foreign policy.  Most heartbreaking was the young mother who asked for a signed copy of the Constitution for her son, 'who will never know his dad.'  He too was just killed in Iraq.

"How can we ask one young American to die for a neocon empire?  The soldiers and their families agree with us, which is why our campaign gets more financial support from active-duty and retired military than all the rest combined.  They want to defend America, not be part of some globalist scheme to take away our country's independence."

This morning, a commercial played on the radio in NE Ohio, sponsored by Barack Obama's campaign.  "Barack Obama was against this war from the beginning," a girl's voice opened the commercial.

He was?

You could have fooled me.

Then again, I've seen his voting record.  And Hillary's.  And they can try and lay claim to Paul's staunch opposition to the Iraq War, but Paul is the only one whose actions have backed up his words.

As for this Ohioan, I will be voting for Ron Paul in the primaries on March 4th.

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