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lordmandeep said:
The thing about Obama winning this time, its so different from 2008.

In 2008 he was elected based on the hype that he would be a history altering President.

Now in 2012, few are excited to see four more years of Obama but are more worried about the other side.

For the American people, picking Obama in 2012 will be an example of picking the best of the bad.

Ron Paul actually looks like he would be a good president. At the very least he is the only anti-war republican, wants to fix the US debt problem (one of his proposals is basically to phase out the US Federal Reserve which would immediately cut $1.6 Trillion from the US debt and save Billions in interest payments each year), he wants to reduce the size of goverment and he believes that winning allies via trade and talking is a better strategy than using sactions, military power and threats. 

All this is ignoring that he predicted the dot com burst and was called insane, he predicted the housing market burst and massive bail-outs and was called crazy, he predicted that the US would fund the bombing of the Gaza strip and would pay for its re-contruction and more.

Ofcourse no one is perfect, and politicians are worse than most and Ron Paul wants to get rid of federal income tax, shutdown the CIA (moving there important work to other government bodies), shutdown the department of education (handing control of education over to the states) and a few other idea's that seem foolish to me.  Not to mention that he actually needs to get this stuff through the US congress which looks to be extremely difficult (though he could veto a bunch of stupid legislation).