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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject:
Former Representitive from Georgia.
It's good that the LP is running a candidate with experience, but Barr's a bit too conservative for my tastes. IIRC, he authored or co-authored the Defense of Marriage Act, and is known for his support for the war on drugs, although he has supposedly changed positions on this. _________________ The whores and politicians will shout 'save us'...
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 3:41 am Post subject:
Philosophos wrote:
Former Representitive from Georgia.
It's good that the LP is running a candidate with experience, but Barr's a bit too conservative for my tastes. IIRC, he authored or co-authored the Defense of Marriage Act, and is known for his support for the war on drugs, although he has supposedly changed positions on this.
That's a bit like taking a shit in football field and calling it a manure pile. (also, much smaller than a mole hill) _________________ "-- Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than
feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to
be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it
is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be
dispensed with."-- Niccolò Machiavelli
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 7:22 am Post subject:
It's the Bob Barr revolution! This is clearly not to be confused with the Roseanne Barr revolution... Or the Epstein-Barr revoltion... _________________ “I think it’s also important for the President to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
-- George W. Bush on Clinton's involvement in Kosovo, 1999
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: Re: Bob Barr for President
Moloth wrote:
Who the fuck is THIS guy?
He's a former Rep from Georgia. He was also one of the leaders of the Clinton impeachment (if you didn't know Bill got head), was he not? _________________ “I think it’s also important for the President to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
-- George W. Bush on Clinton's involvement in Kosovo, 1999
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Bob Barr for President
rickcopeland648 wrote:
He was also one of the leaders of the Clinton impeachment (if you didn't know Bill got head), was he not?
LOL. Yeah. Even though he may have cheated on his second wife with his third wife. And also one of his wives had an abortion, even though he's anti-abortion. But y'know - morality only applies to members of the opposite party.
I'd think about casting a vote for Barr if it comes down to Clinton-McCain, but I'd really have to dig to make sure he's really changed his mind about the socially conservative misguided values he used to like to force upon others through legislation. I certainly have my doubts. _________________ The whores and politicians will shout 'save us'...
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:14 am Post subject: Re: Bob Barr for President
Philosophos wrote:
rickcopeland648 wrote:
He was also one of the leaders of the Clinton impeachment (if you didn't know Bill got head), was he not?
LOL. Yeah. Even though he may have cheated on his second wife with his third wife.
Wait, aren't you confusing him with Newt Gingrich? _________________ “I think it’s also important for the President to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
-- George W. Bush on Clinton's involvement in Kosovo, 1999
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:19 am Post subject: Re: Bob Barr for President
Philosophos wrote:
I'd think about casting a vote for Barr if it comes down to Clinton-McCain...
It most likely won't. But it doesn't matter. In November it will rain McCain. Yup, four years of the cyst thing comming out of his jowl. Four years of being his friend. Four years of a president who lumps all Sunni and Shia with Al Qaeda...
Start doing jumping Johns. These are like jumping Jacks but you don't lift your arms above your shoulders...
Fuckin' awesome... _________________ “I think it’s also important for the President to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
-- George W. Bush on Clinton's involvement in Kosovo, 1999
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:24 am Post subject: Re: Bob Barr for President
Philosophos wrote:
Different do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do Republican.
You write of that as though it's common... _________________ “I think it’s also important for the President to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
-- George W. Bush on Clinton's involvement in Kosovo, 1999
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:26 am Post subject:
Check out their other video, "Here Comes McCain Again". H. Jon Benjamin (the comedian who did these) is a funny guy... _________________ “I think it’s also important for the President to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
-- George W. Bush on Clinton's involvement in Kosovo, 1999
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:35 am Post subject:
Bob Barr ... I would like to be able to support him, but I just can't.
He's the inverse of Ron Paul. One is a libertarian in the Republican Party, the other is a republican in the Libertarian Party. Ever since Wayne Allen Root changed his position on the war there have been no libertarian candidates who have supported it. W.A.R. still gets the support of the "force them to be free by killing them" caucus because he only changed sides to become electable.
Bob Barr is loved by the same caucus. He won't say he'll continue the war, but he did say "no timetables."
He seems to have changed his mind on federal drug laws, and since he's seeking a federal office that's relatively safe, but it seems he's not against drug laws, he wants strict state drug laws. He's more a federalist than a libertarian.
He's been ducking certain questions ever since he announced his intent to announce his intent to run. No, I was not being redundant, that's exactly how he started his race. My strongest memory of Barr is from 1999, after a newspaper near Ft. Hood ran a public interest story about Wiccans who were in the military celebrating a religious holiday at the chapel. Barr's reaction was to try to pass legislation that would forbid certain religions from using the chapel facilities.
Barr has the support of the pro-war caucus of the libertarian party, the reform caucus, the pragmatist caucus, and fortunately for the rest of the LP those three caucuses share almost all of their membership and thus are basically the same caucus.
Their argument is that he will not only break 1%, he will break 4%. The counter argument is "yes, but do you really want people to associate libertarianism with that?" _________________ Nos laetus edo qui votum opprimo nobis.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:16 pm Post subject:
One can vote for Harry Browne. Although he is dead, his support for the role of government has only slightly decreased since he ran in 2000, when I voted for him. _________________ The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
-John Dewey
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