Americans Support Bob Barr
May 5th, 2008 by StaffThe Bob Barr 2008 Exploratory has received hundreds of messages of support from people all over the country. Here are just a few! Check out the Supporter Comments feature on the front page for more!
Long Time Supporter
As a long time Atlanta resident I am very familiar with the work of Bob Barr. He is a reasonable man that will work to restore the qualities and policies that made this country great.
Since the GOP is not running a conservative candidate this time around, I think it’s time to take another look at the Libertarian party.
~Michael Holbert
Thank You Bob!
Bob Barr is what I have been waiting for. I am tired of the Dems and Reps. All the back stabbing and not getting anything done. Bob is what I am all about. Closing the borders, the fair tax, etc. It ’s about time we had a candidate who is for the people and not big business and government. Thanks Bob!
~Pamela Keller
The Time is Ripe!
Libertarians, our time has come, the two party system is hopelessly weakened with constant bickering and the Republicans have nominated a candidate whose positions are fragile at best. It is our time, let’s take back America, Bob Barr 08!
~Pete Campie
Ron Paul Supporter
As a Ron Paul supporter, I was a bit dismayed that he would not run as a third-party candidate. Thankfully, you have picked up the mantle of the REVOLUTION going forward, and now we have a candidate who we believe can bring real CHANGE and real STRAIGHT TALK to Washington. You have my full support in your campaign.
~Richard Rickard
Professor & Freedom Fighter
I am a 61 year old retired college professor and your ideas about personal freedom and the nanny state are the same as mine. It might interest you to know that I was a professor of sociology and government from the time I was 24 years old, but I have been and remain a voice for individual freedom- which is what I think America is based on. Please advise me as to how I might assist you.
~ O. Wayne Byram Ph.D
Acknowledge the LP!
Good luck. I think you are the Libertarian Party’s best hope this election cycle to get the message out. You can certainly force McCain and the Democratic nominee to acknowledge the Libertarian Party’s existence by putting several Southern states into “play” in the Electoral College race.
~Robert Bates
Weary of the other Candidates
I completely agree with your assessment of candidates Clinton, McCain, and Obama. I cannot believe we do not have a better choice. If you run, you will have my support. Thank you for considering making the sacrifices necessary to run for president. May God richly bless you and give you His wisdom as you make your decision.
~Neal Wilson
May 5th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
http://www.bobbarrmoneybomb.com/
Lets give Bob Momentum heading into the convnetion!
May 5th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I am a Ron Paul supporter and I agree that a May 20th money-bomb would be a great way to give the Barr 08 campaign some clout for the convention.
I support the May 20th money-bomb and Bar Barr for President in 2008!
May 6th, 2008 at 4:33 am
As an outsider looking in I was delighted to contemplate the end of the Bush era… a new, intellectual , forward thinking leader would have been welcomed around the globe. However in their short time in the spotlight all three major candidates have failed to completely live up to some pretty high expectations - maybe Bob Barr is the man who can live up to the high expectations many people have of American politicians?
May 6th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I hope Mr. Barr will run for president.
I do not agree 100% with the Libertarian platform and in the past have considered a Libertarian vote a wasted vote. But a vote for one of the current Republican or Democratic candidates would be the largest waste of all.
What happened to representing this great country and her people? The Democrats desperately want us to lose the war in Iraq; they seem to rejoice as the body count of our brave soldiers increases. No matter what your opinion of the Iraq war is, this is wrong. We are there, for better or worse. Let’s do what it takes to tie this up quickly and get out. They are falling all over themselves telling us how bad the economy is, trying to scare people into scaling back any spending and fueling the fire of recession. Any bad thing that happens, including natural disasters, they blame the Republicans.
The Republicans are no better. They could not wait to jump on Bill Clinton’s misdeeds when he was in office. Should Ms. Clinton or Mr. Obama get elected, the Inquisition of Bill Clinton will have been a walk in the park. And Mr. Bush’s stimulus checks? Come on already, it is my money you have been squandering. Quit taking it and wasting it in the first place.
The upcoming campaign will be ugly as both sides attempt to point out the errors of the other. Never mind what they have done for the people they are supposed to represent or what their concrete plans are for the future. Just feel good sound bites, and smear the other guy.
Is this what we have become as a society? The leadership of our country reduced to a sporting event? It is not about we the people anymore, it is how I can get my side into power, and screw the collateral damage, which is the American people.
This is simply disgusting.
If Mr. Barr decides to run, he will have my vote and anyone else that I can get to listen.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Bob, I agree with you 100%.
I’ll vote my “wasted vote” for you, if nothing else to make a statement, although we all must agree that sadly, you’d never win.
At any rate, the Republicans are nowhere near conservative enough to get my votes anymore…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Hi Bob: I hope that you do run for President. If you do, every member of my large family will vote for you. I am fed up with both the demon crat and republican parties. Both have led us down the path to a socialist dictatorship, taking away many of our freedoms, ignoring the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and nailing our nation’s sovereignty to a globalist cross.
I want to see leaders that place our nation and our nation’s people first in everything; I want to see a leader that will restore our God Given Rights; I want to see a leader who has the guts to send illegal aliens back to where they came from and seal off our borders with the military if necessary; I want to see a leader that will put a stop to the trillions of dollars spent on aid to nations that spit on us the first chance they get; I want to see a president that will stand up to the socialist led invironmentalists and drill for oil where we need to drill for oil and build refineries we so badly need: I want to see a president who isn’t afraid to investigate such treasonous groups as the Trilateral Commission and the Council On Foreign Relations and audit the never before audited Federal Reserve system; I want to see a leader that will get us out of the communist led UN and get the UN out of the US. I think you may be that leader. May our Lord Jesus bless and protect you. BOB BARR FOR PRESIDENT -YES!!!!!!
May 12th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Go Bob Barr! I will vote for you and use my influence to get all my family, friends, and acquaintances to do so as well. We need someone in the White House as President who cares about this country, not personal power, aggrandizement, and wealth as do all the current Republican and Democratic candidates! Thank you!!! May you win the nomination and the general election.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I have been so depressed about the upcoming election. The choices we have are awful. I was thinking about stealing a signature quote I saw online and making a bunch of bumper stickers… Election ‘08 - We are so screwed! … I’d make a mint!
BUT… then I saw that a TRUE conservative is running. I felt like the clouds had opened up and I could finally see sun. I felt hope (not the weird cult-ish Obama kind…) for the first time in many months!
Bob Barr for President!
May 12th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Well, now I know who I’m going to vote for in this upcoming election. I have been so stressed out over the candidates and was about to settle for McCain. Now, I don’t have to settle, I will have a voice and I LOUDLY declare my liberty with a vote for you.
Please consider Ron Paul and bring our country back to us!
If not in 2008, make all the noise for 2012 - you will be successful. I don’t know many people who are happy with any choices this year.
Thank you for giving me a voice!!!!!!
May 12th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Finally, someone for the People! Been searching for one to vote for. I found the right guy.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I’ve been utterly dismayed at this whole election process and the three candidates remaining. They are totally unacceptable!
I’m voting third party and it looks like I’ve found the candidate - Bob Barr.
Let’s spread the word to other disenchanted voters who are fed up that there IS a choice - Bob Barr.
It CAN happen! In the immortal words of Todd Beamer: “Let’s roll!”
May 14th, 2008 at 7:11 am
If Bob Barr would support things like opening up ANWR to oil drilling and exposing global warming for the government funded scam that it is he will get my vote.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Mr. Bob Barr i just wanted to say the you are the person for the job,I think US people are looking for some one like you.A candidate for the people.The other partys runing right now are bad very bad and i think your are BLESSING…
Bob Barr has my vote, my family and friends
May 15th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I am a Ron Paul supporter but will be voting Libertarian now that Bob has graciously thrown his hat in the ring. I would like to point out an error in Bob’s position on taxation.
Specifically, he wrote: “It is not enough to eliminate the income tax. We also must repeal the 16th amendment, which authorizes Congress to levy an income tax. Without doing so, there would be an ever-present danger that a future Congress would attempt to bring back the income tax on top of the Fair Tax or any other alternative to the income tax.”
This is a common misunderstanding of the income tax and of the 16th amendment. In reality, what this amendment actually did, as borne out in subsequent supreme court rulings, was to explicitly declare that any income tax imposed by the federal government MUST be an indirect tax, and thus NOT requiring apportionment among the states. An indirect tax generally takes the form of an excise tax. In fact, this is exactly what the income tax LEGALLY is: an excise tax. There is a great deal of obfuscation that has been layered on top of this reality of our law in order for the IRS to forcibly collect taxes based on wages and salaries of ordinary citizens…
Two links what will help here:
regarding 16th amendment:
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/04/04/16/greenslade.htm
regarding income tax scam:
http://www.losthorizons.com
Thanks,
Joel
May 15th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Our forefathers set forth a beautiful idea of what our country could be. I’m saddend to see where we have taken that idea to at this point.
I’m not a Republican. In fact, I’ve been a life-long Democrat. At this point though, I’m so dismayed with both major parties. For all the talk of change and what-not, it’s just more of the same.
I don’t agree with Sen. McCain leading with policy ideas that seem more concivied by the left wing than the Republican Party. I can’t trust Sen. Obama because I honestly don’t know that much about him and what I do know seems so Marxist it scares the **** out of me. Isn’t it funny that the canidate that we know the most about - and at this point seems acutally the most conservative - is the one that has no chance at winning the nomination.
I’m ready for a real difference. I’m ready for us to take our country back to the Federalist ideas set forth 230-some odd years ago. This is not the America they envisioned, nor the America I want for my children.
As a mother of a special needs child who our insurance doesn’t cover all of his needs, I would like his doctor’s to be able to make decisions based on what’s right for him and his future. Not what I can afford because our insurance GIANT won’t cover Autism related expenses.
Pundits will say that you don’t matter when it comes to November. To me, it matters. Everyday it matters.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Thank you for running for president Mr. Barr.Please remember”We the people”.I’m so tired of the liberalism that is in both the democratic and republican parties.Common sense seems to be non exesitent.”We the people” will raise the BARR for change.