Cade Thacker is raising money for a Ron Paul billboard in Atlanta:

Over 250,000 people will see this per day. We have 3 different locations we are scouting on the Cobb I-75 parking lot between 575 and 285, but depending on how quickly we can raise the money will depend on which option is available to us.

Take a look at the Liberty Billboard and donate if you can.

This is being done purely through Atlanta locals without the approval of the Official Ron Paul Campaign.

From LewRockwell: Americans are looking to turn on its head the English celebration of the foiled Gunpowder Plot on Guy Fawkes Night, as a goal to make the largest political donation event in history for one of the greatest anti-statist candidates in history.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Today is the day. Ron Paul 2008.

Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has managed to smash his $500,000 goal for the week three days early. Now he’s trying for a million.

The flash animation shows his incoming donations in real-time. At the time of this writing he has just over $700,000 in donations. Neat.

Robert McNamara served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, during the Vietnam War. In his 1996 book, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, McNamara outlined 11 lessons gleaned from this experience:

1. We misjudged then — and we have since — the geopolitical intentions of our adversaries … and we exaggerated the dangers to the United States of their actions.
2. We viewed the people and leaders of South Vietnam in terms of our own experience … We totally misjudged the political forces within the country.
3. We underestimated the power of nationalism to motivate a people to fight and die for their beliefs and values.
4. Our judgments of friend and foe alike reflected our profound ignorance of the history, culture, and politics of the people in the area, and the personalities and habits of their leaders.
5. We failed then — and have since — to recognize the limitations of modern, high-technology military equipment, forces and doctrine…
6. We failed as well to adapt our military tactics to the task of winning the hearts and minds of people from a totally different culture.
7. We failed to draw Congress and the American people into a full and frank discussion and debate of the pros and cons of a large-scale military involvement … before we initiated the action.
8. After the action got under way and unanticipated events forced us off our planned course … we did not fully explain what was happening and why we were doing what we did.
9. We did not recognize that neither our people nor our leaders are omniscient. Our judgment of what is in another people’s or country’s best interest should be put to the test of open discussion in international forums. We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.
10. We did not hold to the principle that U.S. military action … should be carried out only in conjunction with multinational forces supported fully (and not merely cosmetically) by the international community.
11. We failed to recognize that in international affairs, as in other aspects of life, there may be problems for which there are no immediate solutions … At times, we may have to live with an imperfect, untidy world.

Poet and philosopher George Santayana told us that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Have we repeated history?

We drove three hours from Atlanta, GA to attend the Ron Paul Lunch Program with the Spartanburg Republican Party in South Carolina to listen to 10th-term Republican Congressman Ron Paul spread his message of freedom. I’m not one to normally become involved in politics, but Dr. Paul earned my respect in the Republican debates on Fox News, where he was the only candidate on stage courageous enough to speak out against the neoconservative party line.

This event was particularly important because GOP maverick Paul was shunned earlier in Spartanburg when Spartanburg County Republican Party Chairman Rick Beltram said that he was not welcome in his county. “The door is closed for him,” Beltram said. “He can stay home.” But two days later, thanks to our persistent e-mails and phone calls, Beltram changed his tune. “I was told by at least 125 e-mails and 25 voice mails that I didn’t hear correctly, newspapers didn’t report it correctly and live TV didn’t reflect it correctly,” Beltram said. “If we’re all that naive and we all misunderstood, I think they should come on down and tell us how we’re wrong, and I think the people of Spartanburg will be anxious to listen.”

And boy, were we anxious to listen. The Paul faithful flocked to the Spartanburg appearance, as about 400 people — half from out of state — were shoehorned into Summit Pointe for the event. Paul received no less than 16 standing ovations during his hour-plus speech, promoting the cause of Liberty.

Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who voted against the Iraq war. Join the Ron Paul Revolution and see how Dr. Paul is transforming American politics — one idea at a time.

Other YouTube videos of Ron Paul:

• Ron Paul is Bill Maher’s New Hero
• Congressman Ron Paul at the First GOP Presidential Debate
• Ron Paul on The Daily Show
• Ron Paul on Colbert Report
• 44 Second Summary of Second Republican Debate