And Fox News picks up the AP report on it:

Paul told an overflow crowd at a suburban New Orleans hotel Monday that the Fed has allowed the dollar to weaken, which in turn, he said, has hurt the middle class and led to inflation.

“I would enjoy being the next president to get rid of our central bank,” he told supporters. The crowd gave him a raucous welcome, chanting at one point, “Who dat? Who dat say they’re gonna beat Ron Paul?” — a riff on a popular football chant for the New Orleans Saints.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports on Dr. Paul’s visit to Louisiana yesterday, too, emphasizing his principled stand against the Iraq War:

He’s the staunchly anti-war candidate in a crowded Republican field. Pundits and pollsters have written him off as a long shot for the presidential nomination. His campaign organizers say he’s the victim of “media blackout.”

But for the 600 Ron Paul supporters spilling out of a Kenner hotel conference room Monday, none of that mattered. On the eve of the Republican Party caucuses in Louisiana, the slight Republican congressman from Texas outlined his unconventional presidential platform, touching on everything from abolishing the Federal Reserve to immediately bringing American troops home.

… On the war in Iraq, Paul said that a continuing American presence in the Middle East would only create more enemies and further bloodshed.

“That’s a far cry from blaming the American people. There’s not a single person in this room that is guilty,” said Paul, who voted against the Iraq war resolution in Congress. “It’s a few policymakers who sent us off and used our kids, our young people and our money to do things we shouldn’t be doing.”

 

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