A Real Change
May 12th, 2008A Real Change
Bob Barr For President
Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia announced Monday he is seeking the Libertarian Party nomination for president.
While none of us are disillusioned enough to think he actually has a chance, it’s good for America - and therefore good for all of us - to have a viable choice other than the three jackasses currently in the race.
Voters “want a choice,” Barr told a gathering of about 40 journalists and supporters in a small room at the National Press Club.
“They believe that America has more and better to offer than what the current political situation is serving up to us,” Barr said.
He said the federal government has “run amok fiscally,” the presidency has grown too powerful, and individual freedoms have “fallen into disrepute.”
Barr, an outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, said that as president he would begin bringing the troops home from that country and elsewhere around the globe.
He insisted he will not be a “spoiler” but said Republicans have urged him not to run out of concern that he will draw votes from Sen. John McCain, the presumed GOP nominee.
Barr said he is “confident” he can win the Libertarian nomination when the party holds its convention over Memorial Day weekend in Denver.
Barr, 59, quit the Republican Party two years ago, saying he had grown disillusioned with its failure to shrink government and its willingness to scale back civil liberties in fighting terrorism.
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