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Mitch Perry Report for 4.24.15 — The politics of convenience

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Running for president means sometimes having to alter your brand, and  sometimes your integrity. Case in point — Rand Paul. Nobody has been more prominent in American politics in being critical of drone strikes, particularly against American citizens, such as Anwar al-Awlaki, an Al Qaeda operative killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011. In 2013, Paul arguably kicked off his presidential campaign with his dramatic, 13-hour filibuster against such strikes. But now he’s running for the GOP…

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