For your Paul scrapbook
In the Speaker’s Lobby, Paul describes the federal airline security system as an extra-constitutional affront to civil liberties, and thinks security should be handled by the private sector. Then he takes a rather un-presidential jab at the appearance of many TSA screeners, a workforce heavily populated by minorities and immigrants. “We quadrupled the TSA, you know, and hired more people who look more suspicious to me than most Americans who are getting checked,” he says. “Most of them are, well, you know, they just don’t look very American to me. If I’d have been looking, they look suspicious … I mean, a lot of them can’t even speak English, hardly. Not that I’m accusing them of anything, but it’s sort of ironic.”
Totally not a racist. Just a fan of things that are ‘very American.’
[EDIT: This is about RON Paul. Not Rand. I took it rather hastily from this Rand Paul post on time.com, where it is clearly labeled correctly. Sorry. I should have known this because who cared about this clown in 2007? Thanks to jacquesofalltrades and now others.]
[I’m going back to being too busy to blog.]
