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Dave Weigel, an associate editor of Reason magazine, has recently penned a fantastic article on the Libertarian Party and the potential it has with nominee Bob Barr at the top of the ticket. The highlight of the article was the focus on the success of the Libertarian message in transforming Barr, who once was […]
Though this may be true in respect to Senators John McCain and Barack Obama (just look at what McCain is doing in PA), this statement just happened to be one line from Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr’s comedy routine Tuesday night in Philadelphia. Speaking at Stu Bykofsky’s annual "Candidates’ Comedy Night," Barr brought down […]
For Immediate Release Thursday, August 21, 2008 McCain contradicts 2000 pledge to never use supporters to keep candidates from ballot Bob Barr’s presidential campaign has recently learned of an action by the McCain campaign and the Pennsylvania Republican Party to have Barr removed from the state’s ballot, this despite McCain’s promise in the 2000 election […]
Not exactly as sinister as it sounds, but Michael Munger, the Libertarian candidate for governor in North Carolina, will be holding his own debate where he will respond to questions that he did not get a chance answer after being excluded from gubernatorial debates. Munger, chair of the Political Science Department at Duke University, held […]
For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Taxpayers at risk while McCain and Obama argue over Paris Hilton ads ‘The American people cannot afford to keep bailing out big businesses, lenders, investment bankers, and brokers who made big mistakes,’ says Bob Barr.’With bad financial news continuing to pile up, officials at the Treasury Department and […]
For Immediate Release Tuesday, August 19, 2008 55 percent of likely voters want Bob Barr included in the debates A recently released poll by Zogby International shows that a majority of American voters want Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr included in the presidential debates. Barr, currently polling at 6 percent nationally, would need to meet […]
For Immediate Release Monday, August 18, 2008 American taxpayers should not pay for the mistakes of other nations ‘The Bush administration is talking about pumping aid into the damaged Georgian economy, after that nation’s short war with Russia,” says Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party candidate for president. “The conflict between Georgia and Russia was tragic, […]
Are you aware that to get our Presidential Candidate, Bob Barr, into the debates, we need to be polling at 15% or higher? Perhaps you saw our urgent email about this? According to a new Zogby poll, 55 percent of likely voters want Libertarian candidate Bob Barr included in the presidential debates!
For Immediate Release Thursday, August 14, 2008 Says the U.S. ‘cannot afford to wait any longer’ for reform “The US is facing a financial tsunami as the Baby Boomers retire,’ warns Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, on the 73rd anniversary of Social Security being signed into law. ‘The total unfunded liability for […]
There are all sizes of proverbial gorillas in the room that contains the political campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama. Few on the left point out that the oh-so-eloquent Obama stumbles aimlessly through answers to questions when not in front of a telepromter. Additionally, we all know that it is only a matter of […]
For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Recommendations to Serve as Roadmap to Shrink Size, Scope, and Cost of Federal Government In a statement released by the Barr 2008 presidential campaign, Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr called for a new commission to address wasteful government. “Federal finances are in a catastrophic condition and are getting […]
For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Barr Proposes to Stop Taxpayer Funds for Parties’ Conventions ‘My party has already held its convention without a single taxpayer dollar in its support,’ notes Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee. But the Republican and Democratic conventions live on federal subsidies. Each party is receiving $16 million […]
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