Rand Paul under fire for slavery analogy

Sen. Rand Paul has come under fire from African-American leaders for saying that people who believe in the right to health care also believe in enslaving health care workers. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Barry Grossheim - May 14, 2011 - 2:14 PM PDT
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Edited by: Barry Grossheim - May 14, 2011 - 2:18 PM PDT

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by Barry Grossheim - May. 14, 2011

It would be so easy to dismiss Senator Rand Paul as simply ignorant and racist as some of the people in this article do. Sadly, he is very effectively playing to his Tea Party base. Of course they are racist, that is the bottom line for their existence. They would not even exist if we didn't have a black President. He is very cynically and consistently speaking to them in language they are eating up. I doubt that he is ignorant, I don't know if he is really racist but he makes ... More »

“With regard to the idea of whether or not you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies,” Paul, a Republican from Bowling Green, Ky., ... More »

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