Ron Paul: racist or clueless?

If you're a regular follower of the "Stuff You Should Read" blurbs on this site, you probably saw that link to a New Republic article the other day about Presidential hopeful Ron Paul's racist-filled newsletters.

Well, CNN contacted Paul about those newsletters today, and his response is a knee-slapper of a doozy:

None of the newsletters CNN found says who wrote them, but each was published under Paul's name between his stints as a U.S. congressman from Texas.

Paul told CNN's "The Situation Room" Thursday that he didn't write any of the offensive articles and has "no idea" who did.

"When you bring this question up, you're really saying, 'You're a racist' or 'Are you a racist?' And the answer is, 'No, I'm not a racist,'" he said.

Paul said he had never even read the articles with the racist comments.

I'm sure you can draw your own conclusions: either Ron Paul is a deeply-ingrained racist nutjob who's doing one helluva flip-flop to keep his presidential campaign alive, or he's so colossally clueless that he had no idea what sort of racist nutjob missives were being published in a newsletter with his name on the title.

Wow.

And Ron Paul wants to be President of the United States? With these kinds of qualifications, I wouldn't trust him to haul trash...