(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
by Mark Silva
Holy Libertarian, Batman, you've got a fan.
Ron Paul, that Internet-phenom of the 2008 presidential campaign, was asked to name his favorite comic-book superhero. It seems only fair, for an election contest in which Democrat Dennis Kucinich has attested to UFO-sightings, that Republican Paul might have a superhero.
ComicMix was asking.
"My favorite comic book superhero is Baruch Wane, otherwise known as Batman, in The Batman Chronicles,'' ComicMix reports today of Paul's response. "The Berlin Batman," #11 in the series by Paul Pope, details Batman's attempts to rescue the confiscated works of persecuted Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, from Nazi Party hands.
“Batman's assistant Robin writes in the memoirs, "[Mises] was an advocate of individual liberty, free speech, and free thinking... and so, should I add, the Berlin Batman." Batman, a Jew in hiding in Nazi Austria, was willing to risk his life for the sake of the promulgation of freedom, and I find this to be super-heroic."
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Comments
Knock Knock? Who’s There? Ron. Ron Who? Exactly.
Posted by: Bill Hick's ghost | December 10, 2007 2:28 PM
Baruch??
Its Bruce Wayne.
Posted by: gorak | December 10, 2007 3:48 PM
Mark Silva,
Once again you've managed to write another story about 'nothing'; congratulations. About how much money are you able to count the Tribune actually paid you to write such an essay ?
Oh, and I never knew you possessed the creativity to write cartoonish either. Anything comical about James Madison ? Are you upset over Jefferson's preference for darker women ? Is it your grand appreciation for our modern-day socialists that inspires your humor ?
Ron Paul on Patriotism:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul388.html
Posted by: Tory | December 10, 2007 5:35 PM
Ron Paul stands for protecting our freedoms. Having a strong national defense. Implementing a sound currency policy, and protecting our environment through private property rights. The role of the government was to protect the general welfare, enforce the rule of law in court.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Ron_Paul_on_the_Role_of_Government
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Posted by: PollM | December 10, 2007 6:55 PM
Gorak: It's Baruch Wane in this story-- it's an elseworlds Batman story. In this one, Baruch Wane is a german playboy against the shadow of the Nazi rise to power.
Posted by: Glenn Hauman | December 10, 2007 7:54 PM
Ron Paul says that we don't need no stinkin' U.S. Marshalls on aircraft.
He says that individual airlines should be responsible for security.
That's way too Libertarian for this flyer.
Posted by: Doug Zook | December 10, 2007 8:07 PM
I think Paul's response was intelligent and insightful. Especially when GW Bush's response was "I'm torn between Richie Rich and Scrooge McDuck."
Posted by: Giraffe | December 11, 2007 6:39 AM
Dick Cheney is Darth Vader; so who is George Bush ?
Doug Zook,
Buy yourself a bodyguard.
Islamaphobes.
Posted by: Tory | December 11, 2007 3:04 PM