1. wow! what a breath of fresh air. here’s someone who really gets it and is just spot on when it comes to articulating the message. any reasonable person can see that ron paul is the only candidate of the people. yet you have a media that clearly wants to marginalize ron paul. look at the california debate. i was just appalled. here you have the one guy who can turn this country around sitting next to three scumbag politicians who are completely full of shit. john mccain who wants to stay in iraq for 100 years and who out and out lies saying iraq is safe for petraeus to walk around unescorted. who’s father betrayed the survivors of the uss liberty for the most evil racist regime on the planet - israel. then you have mitt romney who never had an original idea except that we should build 100 guantanamos. and mike huckaby - who by comparison seems a reasonable alternative but at the end of the day is a poser. so you have 3 fakes sitting next to ron paul - a giant. and the sellouts at msnbc were so disrespectful to him making him sit there without almost ever getting a question and then when he would talk interrupting him. you had anderson cooper cut him off in mid sentence saying trust me - we’ll come back to the conservative issue in two minutes - but never did. and then you wonder why ron paul is trailing in the polls. most people dont know he exists. what i can’t stand about this news media is they are a bunch of phonies and worse they are traitors. by not supporting ron paul - the one man who truly cares about america - they suck. but hats off to MTV, even though at the end the guy had to add his little negative spin, overall it was amazing to see that kind of support from mainstream media.

   Posted by Andy | February 3, 2008, 2:07 am

2. Yeh the presenter had to stick the knife in at the end by saying “we should mention Ron Paul has a well organized online presence”, er what’s wrong with that ?

   Asking him about Rwanda first question was a bit suspicious, knowing he is a non interventionist they probably tried to set him up instantly making him unpopular with the do gooders in the audience.

   Why is Obama so popular, he was boring and predictable, as Ron Paul said these people talking about change are really just talking about tinkering with things, not actually radically changing anything.

   Posted by Anders | February 3, 2008, 8:17 am

3. That girl probably couldn’t find Rwanda or Darfur on a map and was probably a “plant”.

   My wife teaches HS and believe me, thats not a typical question on kids minds and they made it the first question.

   Posted by phil | February 3, 2008, 9:11 am

4. Well and the girl reciting the script about Russia and Iran are waging war on the world through control of oil - where the hell did she get that? She seemed like she really believed it though. He broke into an environmentalist type thing about oil as the answer. I wish he’d said first, that’s not true, and second, if it was, we shouldn’t worry about it. And then repeated that Iran is not a threat to the U.S. Maybe he missed the first part of her question.

   Posted by Scott | February 3, 2008, 12:42 pm

5. wonder why The Millionaire and the Maniac didn’t show up for this one ? i heard a rumor that Romney described Ron Paul as “that other guy” during a interview, apparently he said “mike huckabee and that other guy should drop out”, i’ve not seen the interview but it sounds like something Shitt Romney would say.

   Posted by Anders | February 3, 2008, 2:13 pm

6. Mental midget that Romney is, he really probably couldn’t remember his name. Without coaching, Romney would have a hard time answering a “door bell” .

   Posted by phil | February 4, 2008, 8:00 am

7. I imagine the next president citing some supposedly unexpected event as justification for empowering the dictatorship even more. It will be the way Bush uses 9/11 as justification for doing the exact opposite of what he campaigned on. Monetary collapse, recession / depression, more blowback, whatever. “We didn’t expect [to be added] to happen.” We can all just think, “you stupid shit, if you had listened to the guy you were laughing at or ignoring, you would know this wasn’t so unexpected.”

   There are some teens that will think of these questions. MTV just knows how to get a hold of the ones that would ask these questions. I think it influences some of the others who don’t think about this stuff. Most probably still don’t think anything about these things.

   MTV still seemed more fair than some of the other networks.

   Posted by John Delano | February 5, 2008, 12:27 am

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