<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d77ee97e-3648-4f40-b0f0-6b6187d469b2/30C698C4-CFF4-4007-8C6A-E7713964F232/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s6i21795" href="http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s6i21795" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thespoof.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s6i21795"> Presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Texas) announced today that he will take a 2-week break from the campaign so he can try out for the Iowa Cubs, a AAA minor league baseball team that serves as a farm team for the major league Chicago Cubs team.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s6i21795">He will start out in the bullpen for the Cubs. In his youth Paul was known for throwing some wild curveballs, knuckleballs, and other odd pitches. His political critics say that's where he gets all of his oddball ideas.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s6i21795"><BR /><DIV>Some have suggested that Paul's baseball venture is just a stunt to get attention for his political campaign. Rudy Giuliani leveled just such a charge, saying that this incident is "absurd and outrageous ... I've never heard of such a thing." Indeed, the fact that Ron Paul, a man in his seventies, would start playing AAA baseball would usually get a lot of press attention, but for some reason the major media has not covered the story.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/30C698C4-CFF4-4007-8C6A-E7713964F232/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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