Barr for President: A Smaller Question Mark This Time
David Weigel | March 27, 2008, 10:10am
Bob Barr
talked to AntiWar.com's Scott Horton yesterday and
stoked the rumors that he might run for president.
On a presidential run, Barr said:
“There’s been a tremendous expressed to me both directly and indirectly on the Internet. I take that support very seriously, and I think it also reflects a great deal of dissatisfaction with the current candidates and the current two-party system. So it is something, to be honest with you, that I’m looking very seriously at.”
Barr said a Libertarian candidacy would essentially be an extension of the Ron Paul campaign.
“Ron Paul tapped into a great deal of that dissatisfaction and that awareness. Unfortunately, working through the Republican party structure, it became impossible for him to really move forward with his movement. But we have to have ….a rallying point out there to harness that energy, that freedom in this election cycle,” Barr said.
The ball has moved just a
little bit further downfield since last week. Has the Gravelanche had an effect? No, not according to what I'm hearing. In order to have a chance at the LP's Denver convention, you need to collect
tokens. Every delegate has five of them, and you need 30 to get a speaking slot at the convention. And it's not at all clear that Gravel could get 30 tokens. From what I'm hearing (big hat-tip to the plugged-in Steve Gordon),
Mary Ruwart's recent entry into the race makes her the slight favorite: Barr, if he entered, would be the slight favorite, drawing much of his support from Wayne Allyn Root.
In other third party news, see if you can guess who wrote
this.
There is a real desire, a belief that some alternative must be developed. We can no longer be enslaved by the existing party structure. On the contrary, if things aren't representing you, there needs to be something else. My experience [is] a period of serious reflection with what I can do.
Yes, it's Alan Keyes.
NoWay Jose | March 27, 2008, 11:25pm | #
Paul got $1,500 from me, after what Barr said on the floor I wouldn't give him a dime.
"Mr. Chairman, this piece of legislation says that basically the District of Columbia should not and shall not make marijuana a legal ubstance. Of course, marijuana federally is an illegal substance. This is a Federal district. I think that is just logical.
Let us talk a little bit about what marijuana is and what it does. If we think that kids should not smoke tobacco, then I think it is a logical step that probably we should not make this available for kids or anybody to be smoking marijuana.
A lot of people say marijuana produces no ill-effects to the people that use it. That is a fallacy. We find that marijuana affects motor coordination, reasoning and memory, and marijuana has a much higher level of carcinogens than tobacco.
Some people say marijuana is not a dangerous drug. Let me tell you, a study of patients in shock trauma who have been in automobile accidents found that 15 percent of those who have been in a car or motorcycle accident have been smoking marijuana. Seventeen percent have been smoking both marijuana and drinking. When the City of Memphis, Tennessee, tested all reckless drivers for drugs, it was discovered that 33 percent showed signs of marijuana use.
Now, I think this is just a logical step. If we want a drug-free America, if we want a drug-free workplace, if we want drug-free prisons and drug-free schools and drug-free highways, we probably ought to have a drug-free capital, to say to prohibit the legalization of marijuana in the District of Columbia, where millions of our constituents come, year in and year out, day in and day out, week in and week out. They ought to be safe.
We ought to do our best, not just for the safety of the citizens of the District of Columbia, but for the safety of our constituents who come here to visit, to come here to learn, school kids that come through this Capitol, and certainly people who come here to do business, the country's, the Nation's business, day in and day out."
All I need to hear out of FuBarr. Just another endless war, nanny government nitwit.
