Barr ’08

Bob spoke with John Roberts this afternoon at length about the BOMB on CNN’s The Situation Room.

Despite being excluded from the debates, Bob Barr takes questions from YouTube viewers and actually answers them, as opposed to Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama who last night ducked and dodged nearly every question asked.

Bob was interviewed by the NBC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio during yesterday’s campaign stop:

Barr said his party supports strong civil liberties, minimal regulation in government and laissez faire markets.

As president, Barr said he would not sign any legislation increasing national debt, taxes or executive spending in the White House.

He said the bailout bill was a mistake — along with the war in Iraq.

“We really need to have that regulation that is minimally necessary in order to assure the smooth and lawful transparent operation of the marketplace. We need those laws and those regulations enforced consistently and proactively — something which the SEC, for example, has not done,” Barr said.

He also said he would not take away votes from either party, but merely gets votes from people who were not willing to vote for either candidate.

You can watch the video at the link to the story.

Here is the first television add from Bob Barr 2008:

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In a new video on the campaign’s YouTube channel, Bob talks about the bailout plan and wonders why the Feds are just now trying to take on the issue when they’ve know about the problem for years.

Bob says it makes no sense to give them $1 trillion to do create the same problem all over again. He adds that Republican and Democrats are both guilty for the problem and the “bogus solution” they presented.

The only way to change things is to vote Libertarian.

The second and final part of the Reason counter-debate with Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr is now available. You can watch it here. Part 1 is available here.

We here at Bob Barr 2008 would like to thank Reason magazine for the amazing job they did putting this event together. Several of us on the campaign are subscribers to Reason, myself included. We’d like to encourage you to consider subscribing to the magazine of free minds and free markets.

Bob appeared on Your Word w/Neil Cavuto this afternoon to discuss the failed bailout bill. Bob told Cavuto that he never bought into the dollar amount given by the Bush Administration, a number they admit they pulled out thin air, and believes it would be closer to $1 trillion. That is on top of the $700 billion already given to AIG, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Bear Stearns, the auto industry and others.

Here is the video:

The folks over at Reason have posted the first part of the counter-debate. You can head on over and watch that here. It’s about 48 minutes in length. Part 2 should be posted a little later.

The full counter-debate will be posted as soon as it is available (probably Monday), but here is the Q&A from last night with Bob, with reason’s editor Matt Welch moderating. It’s just a little teaser for those of you who missed the counter-debate.

We are told that anywhere between 175 to 200 people were in attendance last night, that includes media. You can view some photos from the event here.

We here at Barr HQ would like to thank reason for putting together a successful event. If you are looking for a great magazine that advances libertarianism, please check them out.

Here is video of Bob’s appearance yesterday on CNN’s American Morning.

Bob explains that the financial crisis is a failure of government, not the free market. He explains in he would put people in place in a Barr Administration that understand the marketplace and scoffs at the alarmism of the Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson:

My apologies for not getting this posted sooner.