I'm sure he misspoke and meant to say foreign energy.

But if you're in the mood to find suspicious quotations, Crazy Uncle Ron has made a few.

Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and commented, "If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."

"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal," Paul said.

Paul also wrote that although "we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers."

Stating that lobbying groups who seek special favors and handouts are evil, Paul wrote, "By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government" and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism.

Enjoy Ron Paul. Or, perhaps obscure quotes are a poor indicator of a candidate.

Whoops, I forgot my sources.

Alan Bernstein; HOUSTON CHRONICLE; May 22, 1996; "Newsletter excerpts offer ammunition to Paul's opponent"

Reprinted here: http://thesaloon.net/blog/_archives/2007/5/20/2963953.html

Hey now, if we can't have fun with misspoken candidates during this election cycle what fun will the election be?

Can I take it that you'll miss Bush when he's gone? He's certainly the king of verbal gaffs.