Bob Barr

Source: www.news.com --- 8 days ago
The former Republican congressman, now a Libertarian candidate for president, is aiming for the pro-privacy geek vote. It may not win the election, but it's likely to disrupt it. ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 1 day ago
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr takes your questions about his campaign, platform and why the former Republican U.S. congressman changed parties. ...

Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 5 days ago
Susan Davis reports from Austin, Texas on Netroots Nation. Many attendees here were surprised by Al Gore’s unscheduled appearance this morning at the Netroots Nation blogger conference, but absolutely no one expected Bob Barr. The former Georgia congressman turned Libertarian presidential candidate is in town for a fund-raiser for his third party presidential bid [...] ...

Source: www.salon.com --- 7 days ago
The widespread agreement between important factions of citizens on the Left and Right illustrates important facts about how our political establishment operates ...

Source: hotair.com --- 8 days ago
Taking it to the blogosphere. ...

Source: www.lewrockwell.com --- 7 days ago
Gore is pleased with Barr's "serious attention to the issue of global climate change." Notice that the eco-authoritarians have stopped calling it "global warming," since there is no evidence of that, and that global cooling may be in our future.... ...

Source: odeo.com --- 23 days ago
On June 12, Gard chatted with Bob Barr, the libertarian party candidate for president. Gard has many more questions for Bob, as do many principled libertarians who weren’t pleased mary ruwart did not get the nomination. ...

Source: video1.washingtontimes.com --- 6 days ago
Bob Barr courts 'Netroots' ...

Source: www.dvorak.org --- 4 days ago
I’ve been hoping for a good third party movement but it looks hopeless. Bob Barr just doesn’t cut it either. Another cliche-laden guy running for office. He won’t answer actual questions. ...

Source: thirdpartywatch.com --- 3 days ago
Matthew Towery heads the polling and political information firm InsiderAdvantage. His column is distributed by Morris News Service. He recently penned a column of advice for Bob Barr, noting that “Barr does have some things going for him. If he takes advantage of them, he could yet toss a huge monkey wrench into the [...] ...

Source: time-blog.com --- 23 days ago
Wil Hylton at GQ interviews the libertarian candidate for president, and he has some pretty harsh words about his former party: Barr: I came to the conclusion that the Republican Party had changed, from two perspectives. One, the Republican Party... ...

Source: themoderatevoice.com --- 8 days ago
CNet calls it a long-shot bid for the geek vote : Speaking [in Las Vegas] at a political conference on Friday, Barr focused almost exclusively on privacy and eavesdropping–and argued that both major parties are far too surveillance-happy. “Both of them will continue down the same track,” Barr said, noting that both McCain and Obama supported last week’s bill to immunize telecommunications companies that illegally opened their networks to government snoops. Congress’ legislative rewrite of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is “not about surveilling Al Qaeda,” Barr said. “It’s about surveilling U.S. citizens in America.” He added, for good measure: “This administration is the most anti-privacy, the most anti-individual freedom, in our nation’s history, certainly in my lifetime.” This is hardly a Bush-McCain species of Republican speaking. It underlines Barr’s appeal: If you’re a traditional conservative who disagrees with the big-government policies, the surveillance, the inflation, the deficit spending, and the unnecessary wars of the Bush administration, vote for me. I was one of you, once. It might work. More precisely, it might work well enough–think a Republican equivalent of Ralph Nader–to make a difference in states that would have tilted toward McCain otherwise. It’s certainly a more attractive message than the Libertarians’ 2004 candidate , a telemarketer-turned-programmer, had to offer. Barr has an arch-conservativ ...

Source: www.independentpoliticalreport.com --- 24 days ago
Posted at LFV by Tom Knapp. I realize Tom writes here too, so I held off on posting it here, but I think enough time has elapsed. My apologies if Tom still meant to post it here himself. Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr, in an appearance yesterday morning on Fox News Sunday: [W]hat makes me [...] ...

Source: www.libertymaven.com --- 23 days ago
Bob Barr spoke with Newsmax’s Ashley Martella about his campaign and several issues in a YouTube video released by Newsmax today. Barr gets in all of his usual liberty minded talking points here. Good stuff. ...

Source: horserace08.freedomblogging.com --- 22 days ago
Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr managed a little airtime and a little ink this weekend. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, he said the Republican Party is about played out – “they talk one thing and do another” and McCain is emblematic of the problems with the GOP brand. The NYT also did a piece noting [...] ...

Source: blogs.cqpolitics.com --- 3 days ago
Michael Whitney ran into Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr and found out that the former Georgia lawmaker writes his own entries on the social networking site Twitter. Whitney has some fun with the discovery, noting that a few of Barr's entries are semantically challenged . A couple of other interesting things I noticed while looking at Barr's Twitter account: He's following far more people (4,795) than he has followers (767). That can't be a good sign when you're a candidate for federal office. Especially when his closest ideological counterpart is Ron Paul, a true Internet phenomenon. However, he's also only posted 24 entries so far. So, maybe the number of followers will spike in the coming days/months. Barr is using the account mainly as a promotional device, but you have question some of the content he's putting out there. Out of those 24 "updates," 7 are requests to follow his website and/or Twitter account. 5 updates are links to Bob Barr You Tube videos and the rest are links to articles about/by Barr. ...

Source: www.shakopeenews.com --- 13 days ago
According to Zogby's first general election poll of the season, Bob Barr is polling at 6% nationally. This is virtually unheard of for 3rd party candidates. The last competitive 3rd party candidate, Ross Perot, was polling at 7% nationally at this time in 1992. Our two party system is designed to keep out 3rd party candidates, so very few even get noticed. Bob Barr's excellent start is a good sign that Americans want more choices and are getting tired of voting for who they consider to be the lesser of two evils. Shakopee Ron Paul Revolution ...

Source: www.libertymaven.com --- 23 days ago
I apologize for the shameless alliteration but not only does the Ron Paul style money bomb for Bob Barr begin tonight at midnight, but it also marks my birthday. I’ve always said that my love of liberty was somehow injected into me at birth since I was born on the day the Declaration of Independence [...] ...

Source: themoderatevoice.com --- 8 days ago
Several of us got the chance to talk to Bob Barr today on a conference call. I found the candidate to be highly engaging and ready to reach out to bloggers and the new media in any way that he can. Below are a few of the topics covered and the answers given. Q. What does it mean to you to run as a 3rd party candidate? Barr hopes to accomplish three things. He feels that the political climate is sour, people are sour on government and their choices in candidates and that the two party system is not serving them well. He recognizes that he’s a long shot, but still believes he can win in a three way race. Second, he would like to “ open the electorates eyes ” to the fact that they do not need to be “ bound to the artificial constraints of a two party system “. And last, he would like the opportunity to discuss the issues in a more fundamentally constitutional way with the voters. Q. How would you make substantive cuts in the size of the government? Barr would lead by example, ordering an immediate 10% cut in the Executive office for personnel and spending. Further, he would ask Congress, (both parties) to start cutting costs or “ they will be next “. Any bill that increases the national debt will be vetoed. No increases in appropriations for any office will be tolerated. He would immediately put a freeze on all federal spending. He would also eliminate the Dept. of Education, reduce the size and scope of the Dept. of Energy, and est ...