Barr: Obama’s analysis is “way off base, it’s awfully simplistic and very arrogant,”
April 13th, 2008 by Stephen GordonThe American Spectator’s Robert Stacy McCain managed to catch a few minutes alone with Bob Barr at the Libertarian Party of North Carolina convention. He asked Bob about his response to Obama’s statement that some people from small towns are “bitter” people who “cling to guns and religion.”
Obama’s analysis is “way off base, it’s awfully simplistic and very arrogant,” said Barr, a board member of the National Rifle Association. “I don’t think he understands people…. People get bitter, so that’s why they support the Second Amendment? Or that’s why they support the First Amendment? That’s what he seems to be saying.” [...]
Calling Obama’s remarks “absolute nonsense,” Barr said: “People in American don’t support the Second Amendment because they’re bitter. It’s because they love freedom and they understand freedom — apparently a lot better than Senator Obama does.”
McCain’s report is posted here.
April 13th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Pleased to see that Barr weighed-in here, and, in my view, in the right way. Also pleased to see that his impresion was solicited. He should treat his candidacy as a major candidacy, not only because it is one, but because its likely to impact in a major way, particularly on just-about-to-explode, John McCain. What I’d like to see most in the Fall is a credible charge that either Barr or Nader cost one or other of the system parties the election. Both have the potential of doing that. Pro-life and anti-war, I can feel comfortable voting for Barr but for no one else. Good luck!