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Rand Paul for President, Inc.
Rand Paul for President, Inc.
"Kelley's Words"
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3:43 video from April 7, 2015.
Music
TEXT:
like
no
one
that
i'd
ever
met
Kelley Paul: I met
Rand on a beautiful Spring day in April. Thought he was cute; he
was a cute curly headed guy. I also thought he was probably 18
years old and still in college; he looked so young. So I kind of
blew him off at first. But Rand kept trying. He was kind of
persistent at the party, and he came up to me again a little bit later
and we started talking and during our conversation I realized that he
was not 18; he was 26 and a surgical intern at Georgia Baptist.
Very intelligent, very well read, and really like no one that I'd ever
met before.
TEXT:
he
became
her
eyes
Rand is the middle child of five. From what I've heard from
his sibliings growing up he's a lot like he is today. He was
opinionated, had a lot of energy, played a lot of sports. He also
loved to collect coins, which is something that he used to do with his
grandmother. He was very close to her, and through the years as
her eyesight began to fail, he became her eyes to spy the faint mint
marks on the coins as they would go through them together. But
Rand never forgot how sad it was for him to watch his grandmother lose
her vision and I think that really cemented in him the desire to be an
opthamologist.
TEXT: incredibly moving experience
One of the most gratifying things for Rand in his career has been
the ability to do eye surgery on children from Guatemala starting 15
years ago, and now he's gone back to Guatemala and operated on hundreds
of other patients there. One couple that Rand told me about was
especially powerful and memorable. He operated on a woman who had
not been able to see. Two days later she brought her husband and
he was also blind of eye cataracts, and Rand described them removing
his patch and him seeing his wife and her being able to see him for the
first time in seven or eight years and he said it was incredibly moving
experience. I think it's moments like that that really speak to
who he is as a surgeon and what motivates him.
TEXT: wonderful builder of forts
Rand is a wonderful dad. He's got great energy and enthusiasm
and he's always been a wonderful builder of forts, bonfires, anything
active and outside. You know from an early age all of our boys
loved sports and Rand has coached little league baseball, soccer, you
name it he's out there.
TEXT: diagnose and find a solution
Being a physician gives Rand a unique perspective in
Washington. Simply because he's trained to diagnose the problem
and find a solution. He truly believes that if you believe in
something you should get involved; if you put your mind and your energy
to it you can do it, and I think that's a great example for our kids
and it's also something that makes him an amazing person to be married
to. Rand has the energy, the ideas, the honesty to really help
restore the prosperity and hope in our country. He loves making a
difference as a doctor and he believes that he can make a difference as
the president.
LOGO
TEXT:
Defeat
the
Washington
Machine
|
Unleash
the
American Dream
Notes: This video is very
effective at conveying some of Sen. Paul's experiences and humanizing
him. Many or most viewers of the video will probably learn
something new about Paul. For example he has coached little
league; maybe he and Marco Rubio
could do a coach-off.