Video from This Week
July 6th, 2008 by Jason PyeHere is video from Bob’s appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Don’t forget, Bob will appear on the primetime edition of CNN Newsroom this evening at 10pm.
Here is video from Bob’s appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Don’t forget, Bob will appear on the primetime edition of CNN Newsroom this evening at 10pm.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Looking good Bob Barr! You are making a great case!! Keep on Going!!
July 6th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Nice job, Bob. I’m glad your speaking from a position of giving American voters another choice.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
What a great interview! Thanks for getting this up and posted so quickly.
Bob was treated respectfully by George Stephanopoulos (I think George actually understands the impact this campaign will have) and was able to articulate so many important points!
This is a key video for folks to see!
July 6th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
What a great interview! Thanks for getting this up and posted so quickly.
Bob was treated respectfully by George Stephanopoulos (I think George actually understands the impact this campaign will have) and was able to articulate so many important points!
This is a key video for folks to see!
July 6th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I was impressed by this interview. I am disenchanted with McCain and am seeking another conservative voice. I will definitely learn more about Bob Barr and his views on areas of importance to my life before making my final decision about voting in November.
July 6th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Mr. Barr’s closing statement was spectacular. I think that he should try to combine his closing statement with his spoiler position when asking about “stealing” McCain votes.
July 6th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I agree with Josh 100%. On the campaign trail, Barr should repeat that statement about opening up the system until he is blue in the face. No matter what part of the political spectrum voters on from, they all agree with the idea that it is time to break up this two-party duopoly. Think about it: what percent of the ELIGIBLE voting population is sick of the Demopublicans, sick of politics as usual, and desperate for a change? 75%? 80%? This election cycle, if the Libertarian Party can be branded as that party of change, if it can simply appeal to Americans’ sense of fair play,of the people deserving another choice, we will see the greatest growth in the LP’s history.
July 6th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Agreed Anthony. If Bob gets in the debates and makes a splash on the national stage we just might have a shot at mobilizing some of the 50-some percent of the vote-eligible population that stays home every election cycle on top of siphoning votes from the other campaigns. That would add up to a Barr Administration.
July 6th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Great appearance by Bob Barr, as always the most articulate candidate in this election. I only wish we had real money to put on a commercial so America would discover him.
July 6th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Nicely done.
July 6th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Great words by Mr. Barr. His campaign should catch fire as the weeks go by and he gets more exposure. Hopefully, THE PEOPLE will see that the Democrats AND Republicans are the ruination of this country, and vote enough of them out and Libertarians in to make a real difference in the way “our government” does business.
Can someone give me the website where we can get BobBarr signs, banners, bumperstickers, etc? Many thanks.
July 6th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
DIGG THIS INTERVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/July_6_Bob_Barr_on_ABC_s_This_Week_With_G_Stephanopoulos
July 6th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I’m a little disappointed NOT seeing the black glasses for this one.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
One of Barr’s better interviews so far. George Stephanopoulos was much more respectful than he was with Ron Paul, too, which isn’t what I was expecting. Then again, maybe that does make sense if he’s under the impression that you’ll somehow help Obama (despite all the polling evidence to the contrary).
July 6th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
No one gets it as usual, many dems will vote for Bob not just Reps.If mckennedy wasn’t such a joke he wouldn’t be in danger not to mention the fact that dems and so called independants nominated him in the first place with a little help from that dud thompson.
July 6th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Great job on the interview, Bob. You made good points about reducing government and protecting our Constitutional liberties, the promising difference in this electoral cycle, and the success you will achieve.
July 6th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I believe Richard is right. This time around it will not only be disaffected Republicans and independents, but Democrats as well. Many not voting for Obama do not want to vote for McCain either.
The key will be to get information out that there is a real alternative. I’m not sure a lot of Democrats realize that yet.
That’s why attention to contributions and fundraising is critical right now- to permit Bob to get his message out in time for Democrats and others to make up their mind about voting for him.
If we have ideas about how to get this job done we should:
1. send our ideas to campaign headquarters so they can sort through them and determine which ones will give us the best results/I’ve sent a few thoughts using CONTACT at the end of this website.
2. take the initiative to do what we can on a local and state level to raise awareness and encourage contributions and fundraising for Bob
3. energize the blog here so people coming here catch the enthusiasm
we have for this candidate and this campaign.
4. develop a list of ways ordinary people can raise money to send to the campaign: have a yard sale (clean the clutter out of the house and garage and then donate what you earn to Bob for the best cause I can think of), put your change in a cup every night and each time you reach $10.00 donate it to Bob, take unwanted items such as clothing, household items and books to the nearest consignment shop and donate the proceeds to Bob………thousands of people doing ordinary things could produce some extraordinary results to help get Bob’s message out……………
5. do something every day for Bob and the campaign: blog, write a letter to the media including your local paper asking people to take a look at Bob and what he stands for, call into a talk show, hold a house party or barbecue and get friends and neighbors together to talk about Bob and his positions on key issues, encourage and thank everyone working on his behalf and use the internet to spread the word when the main stream media won’t.
These are just a few thoughts. I’m sure everyone out there has many more!
July 6th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Good job, I thought an Interview with George was going the be a buzzsaw because of what I saw in his interview with Ron Paul. If he is polling anywhere between the 7 and 10% range like he says, then he will pick up steam…Remember, the campaign hasn’t officialy started yet and ther is a lot of time to go, and polling doesnt count everyone, those could change to his favor in later months.
For you truth seekers out there, I recommend you take some time in front of your computers and google two videos, (1) is the interview by Aaron Russo called “Architecture of a Prison Planet and (2) is his documentary called “Freedom to Fascism”. Get as many people to watch these videos as you possibly can. The more people who know will only help Barr’s campaign. Go to my website by clicking my name and you can watch the interview videos there.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Here’s a question Stephanopoulos didn’t ask: Why is it that Barr, who holds himself out as “pro-life”, has been unresponsive when asked whether he signed a check paying for an abortion for his former wife in the 1980s? Questioned specifically about this point in 1999 by Larry King, Barr showed a decided preference to answer questions King didn’t ask. Why would it be that a “pro-life” Barr, asked if he’d ever paid for this abortion, would be so reticent when a simple “yes” or “no” would close the books on the matter?
July 6th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
This was a very good interview. I have only one suggestion: that he smile more. Hey, it matters to some people (myself excluded).
July 6th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
John: I’m glad Stephanopoulos showed restraint in not asking that highly personal question.
I know nothing of this matter in regard to Bob’s life. I do know that sometimes people come to the strongest prolife stances after personal tragedy in their own lives or in the lives of those close to them.
Even the woman who was ‘Roe’ has turned against abortion and does everything now to try to stop abortions.
We should embrace and support those who now come to the defense of the unborn.
I for one would respect Bob’s privacy in this matter and give thanks for the fact that he is prolife now.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:12 am
laurie,
That’s all very generous, laurie, but Bob was a Congressman and considered, as I understand it, a pro-life leader in the House at the time the former Mrs. Barr’s abortion is said to have occurred. Holding one’s self out publicaly as pro-life and signing checks paying for abortions, if it were true, would have to rate right up there with Plato’s perfect act of hypocrisy, eh? And as for privacy, Bob Barr is running for President, not ward leader. Assessing whether he’s true to his word is of the very essence. In any case, the question hardly attains to the status of state secret. Frankly, I wish he’d issue a denial. I’d like to vote for the man but won’t without a answer from him to this question.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:06 am
i like the interview
July 7th, 2008 at 6:19 am
John, can you honestly tell me that in your life you did something at one end, then later was completely against what you did? People make decisions all the time that don’t effect them in that way until long after the fact. Does that make Barr a bad person, no. does that show that he might actually regret his decision, possibly, maybe even yes. The only way I would look at it in a bad light is if he did it last week.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Great job! We are going to open up the two party system to some political competition.
I hope Bob Barr continues to wear the “non-black rim rectangular” eye glasses. He looks much, much better without them.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Michael,
My, it would seem that the capacity to rationalize Barr’s behavior - should there be a perceived need to rationize it - is neigh-on limitless among his supporters. We’re talking about his possibly being formally complicit morally in a truly evil act, Michael. Maybe living in the garbage dump this country has become over the last several decades has enured you sufficiently that you’ll take just about anything from those seeking to feed at the public trough, but not me. Minimally, I don’t expect them to dispatch their children when they become a shade inconvenient. Think about upgrading, Michael.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
This is a touchy subject so let me explain a little better. I wouldn’t say im trying to rationalize his behavior, I am a pro-choice advocate because I can’t see myself forcing laws on people because I don’t like certaing things. Is that so wrong, I dont think so. That to me shows that I cannot stand government and it’s ability to forcefully interfere with people rights because they feel they have to make their moral obligation, everyones moral obligation. I would never tell anyone not to get addicted to crack, I would simply tell them to be prepared to pay the consiquences of your actions before doing so. The rest is up to them to self-govern. If Barr did do this abortion thing, I cannot think less of him for doing so because I don’t know what the situation was, what the fact’s were, so on and so forth. For you to get mad about it without also knowing the facts is a bit premature, there could be something terribly wrong with the fetus that aborting was the absolute logical thing to do….who knows? Dont get mad at me for not thinking like you, I reserve the right to stand on my own two feet on issues like this and hope others can respect my decision. And by the way, personally, I think abortion is appauling and could never think to abort my only child for any reason. But that’s only for me. I respect your thoughts, but hopefully you can see where I am coming from that’s all
July 7th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Michael,
“I wouldn’t say im trying to rationalize his behavior, I am a pro-choice advocate because I can’t see myself forcing laws on people because I don’t like certaing things. Is that so wrong, I dont think so”.
Why no more wrong than trying not to force yourself on any other murderer or child rapist, Michael. After all, live and let live, eh?
“That to me shows that I cannot stand government and it’s ability to forcefully interfere with people rights because they feel they have to make their moral obligation, everyones moral obligation.”
Yeah, never forget to absolutize those relativist standards. God forbid that we might stumble over justice without them.
“I would never tell anyone not to get addicted to crack, I would simply tell them to be prepared to pay the consiquences of your actions before doing so.”
Most generous of you, Michael. But why warn them about consequences? Consequences are simply the imposition of someone elses morality on them and, therefore, utterly outrageous anyway, eh? No, I’d keep consequences to yourself.
“If Barr did do this abortion thing, I cannot think less of him for doing so because I don’t know what the situation was, what the fact’s were, so on and so forth.”
There’s always the possibility of educating yourself about the facts, strange as it may seem to you, Michael. And facts there are, believe me. You name it, affidavits, transcripts of interviews with Larry King, a veritable sea of detail. But, strangely, a decided reluctance on Barr’s part to be forthcoming about whether he signed that blasted check. Wonder why.
“Dont get mad at me for not thinking like you, I reserve the right to stand on my own two feet on issues like this and hope others can respect my decision.”
Oh, I’m not angry at you, Michael. Hardly, I pity you. There you are so caught up in the spirit of the age that, if you keep it up, they’ll make a sociopath out of you. But that’s what lbertarianism has become, hasn’t it, a kind of sociopathology writ large? Or was it always that way?
“And by the way, personally, I think abortion is appauling and could never think to abort my only child for any reason.
Sure you do, Michael, you just keep believing that.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Wow, I guess you have me all figured out, I mean, here I was just trying to have a conversation about where I was coming from and you jump down my throat…Ok. If that’s the way you carry yourself in conversation. You like to misconstrude what people say to make your self sound like you have a viable point. You took what I said earlier as an attack on you when you know as well as I do, you cannot read emotion or intend with just words. But how F***ing dare you tell me that I would ever abort my child, who in the F*** do you think you are to tell me that, in so many words that Im a bad person because I believe in live and let live. I have no problem with ANYONE until they interfere with other people lives, (I.E. murderers, child rapist etc) but the abortion issue, to me is a private issue between the woman her moral being, to which I’d rather not interfere. with a decision that I know she is going to have to live with the rest of her life. If she can live with herself then fine, if not, then hopefully she’ll change her mind. But the fact that you took apart a simple explaiation of where I was coming from and perverted it from one extreme to another is bull***. I had absolutly NO problem with you or your views until you crossed a line that should never be crossed and that is making assumptions on my moral character for what I believe in for me. The fact that I choose not to interfere with anyone else doesn’t make me wrong but to assume that I would EVER abort my child…Go to HELL! if you pitty me? your Pathetic. im through with you.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Not cool John. In fact, that was actually pretty weak. The abortion Issue is way too touchy and say that Michael would abort his child was absolutly idiotic. I hope you can see that.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Michael,
Absolutely outrageous, aren’t I, not taking you at face value that way. And particularly so in your world, where everyone’s under obligation to you not to do that. See what happens when you cling to all that liberty loving, nobody’s-going-to-tell-me-what-to-do, ca-ca past adolescence, Michael? Nobody thinks you’re old enough to have a moral sense. They’d be more apt to believe that if bull farkus were green, you’d be an 18 hole golf course.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Hi Steve,
Can you tell us whether Barr signed a check paying for an abortion his wife is said to have had? Have anything on that?
July 7th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
LATimes article about the appearance.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/bob-barr.html
July 7th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Hey John…try writing a letter to the editor wherever you live. Your rants here don’t have much to do with anything other than to display your anger at others with a different point of view. Your sarcasm lacks any real wit. You should be able to make a point simply by making the point. It’s painfully obvious that you can’t do that. Stop embarrassing yourself.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Is that really all you got? You want to dredge up 25 year old stories that after all this time has really no impact on his character? You want to talk about an abortion that his wife at the time wanted, which might have served as the reason for their divorce. Do you want to talk about what the other two douchebags have been doing right now? I really think that you need a hobby, try playing in traffic and spit out your banter to an on comming truck, that will be another thing that couldn’t care less what you think. But hey, im sure you could come up with some half witted insult that will surly compensate for your intelligence, go ahead, take what I wrote and break it down and tell me in your own words how im wrong and what an idiot I am. The problem with you is that having a conversation that might have two sides will make your head implode, so you go on the defensive and show your true colors. Get a life, the only 18 hole Golf course I see is you. An im sure you must have been waiting a life time to pull that one liner out, huh?
July 8th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Jim,
Jeepers, Jimmy, there I’ve caused you to go and should all over yourself. I know I’ve missed countless opportunities failing to submit my posts to you for benefit of your kind and very wise guidance prior to publishing, but, gee, who could have known you’d show up here on such short notice? How do I begin with the sorries, a gift of a new anti-propulsive?
July 8th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Hi Steve,
“You want to dredge up 25 year old stories that after all this time has really no impact on his character? You want to talk about an abortion that his wife at the time wanted, which might have served as the reason for their divorce.”
Being formally complicit morally in a murder wouldn’t impact someone’s character? Why don’t you run that one by Adolf Eichmann, Steve? I’m not interested in speculating about the reasons for the Barr’s divorce, rather in one very simple question: Did Barr sign a check paying for an abortion for his former wife, that and that alone.
“I really think that you need a hobby, try playing in traffic and spit out your banter to an on comming truck, that will be another thing that couldn’t care less what you think.”
Yeah, I can see that you’re utterly indifferent to what I think.
“Get a life, the only 18 hole Golf course I see is you. An im sure you must have been waiting a life time to pull that one liner out, huh?”
Like that, Steve? Just don’t use it without my permission.
.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Hey John, you should support one of the other candidates if you have a problem with Barr’s past! No one is forcing you to support Bob! Go support ‘ole Cap and Trade McCCP. Maybe you could support Chuck Baldwin and eventually become his Secretary of Theocracy and rid our nation of ******! Even better, go over to B. Hussein Obama’s website and post anti partial birth abortion opinions! Your time would be better spent with any of those fine fellows, wouldn’t it now?
July 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am
wow, reading comments from you has become more like a form letter with all of your cutting and pasting and half brained arguements. We get it, your pro-life…woopdysh**, good for you, why is that my problem. Why not push your little religious based beliefs on people who actually care what you have to say (good luck on that). I think the only reason I’m actually continuing this conversation with you is to allow you to make your self look like one of the biggest idiots ever to grace a comment page, nice job on that by the way. As well as to continue to get a good laugh as you seem to take such offence to what everyone says. Now I would suggest that you get off mommy’s computer and go play with your tinker toys. Oh, and I wasnt aware that I had to get your permission to use something you said against you, I thought it was fair game since you seem to only do that to everyone else. Bye Bye golf course
July 8th, 2008 at 10:59 am
James2,
Why do you think Barr won’t answer the question about the check, Jimmy? Right now I’m leaning toward the hypocrisy thesis. But what do you think, is Barr primarily concerned about appearing the phony to pro-life voters if its true that he signied the check, or is it that he’s merely retiring and camera shy? Maybe we could conduct a poll right here at this blog with entries as follows:
Is Bob Barr avoiding answers about whether he signed a check in payment of his forner wife’s abortion because:
1. He did sign the check and he’s ashamed of himself.
2. He’s didn’t sign the check but is, at heart, a shrinking violet.
3. He didn’t sign the check but just doesn’t like Larry King.
4. He did sign the check but wants to avoid appearing the phony on life questions and embarrassing his little friend, Jimmy.
I know that polls of this kind are no substitute for the truth, but, really, with Bob so reticent, what else remains to us?
July 8th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
John,
You’ve officially become a troll! Who’s paying you? McCCP or the CP?
July 8th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Hey John Lowell. All I said was that your sarcasm lacks any real wit. Thanks for replying to my post and proving it. You’re irrelevant, as evidenced by the lack of support for your comments.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Jimmy, Little Jimmy and Steve,
I absolutely marvel at the emotional legerdermain (that’ll be a tough one for you, Steve :-)) uncritical Barr supporters are willing to undergo in the cause of avoiding the impact of the abortion check question. For some, its like learning that Grampa really did do a term in the brig for buggery. Others personalize it, but such is the nature of adolescense, I suppose. Could it be that in many instances the contortionists are former Ron Paul dead enders? Clearly, they evince much of the the same imbecile enthusiasm. Yes, perhaps that’s it. Within the last several weeks I’ve read stomach turning paens comparing Paul to Jesus Christ. Is it that this kind of quasi religious feeling is now being projected onto Barr? God forbid. One thing’s for sure, Jesus doesn’t sign checks paying for abortions. Did Barr?
July 9th, 2008 at 5:48 am
John,
Who signs your checks for trolling?