Brushfires of Freedom

The absurd lawsuit filed by the McCain campaign is holding up the printing of ballots in Pennsylvania:
Last month a Pennsylvania judge denied a request by the Cumberland County Republican Chairman to remove Libertarian Presidential Candidate Bob Barr’s name from the ballot.
That chairman is taking an appeal to a higher court in this state, and in […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Pennsylvania lawsuit causes ballot problems”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/10/01/pennsylvania-lawsuit-causes-ballot-problems/” });

We have another issue video up on the YouTube channel. This one is on civil liberties and privacy.
Bob goes into how our liberties have been put at stake by the Bush Administration and Congress, under both Republicans and Democrats. He blasts the recent FISA law and say, “When government grows so large that it […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Video: Bob Barr on privacy”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/10/01/video-bob-barr-on-privacy/” });

Over at the Huffington Post, Bob sends a warning to Congress on the federal budgets and economy crippling programs like Social Security and Medicare:
[T]he 2009 federal budget will exceed $3 trillion. Next year’s deficit will run a half trillion dollars. Additionally, this assumes no more federal bailouts. We need a president willing to reconsider every […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Barr sends a warning on budget to Congress”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/10/01/barr-sends-a-warning-on-budget-to-congress/” });

Bob will speak at Notre Dame tomorrow:
Former Congressman Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for president, will speak at the University Friday, per the request of the Notre Dame College Libertarians.
The subject of his speech will be “America’s failure of leadership in the 20th century,” Barr said in an e-mail to The Observer through his […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Barr at Notre Dame tomorrow”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/10/01/barr-at-notre-dame-tomorrow/” });

As the United States Senate prepares to spend $1 trillion to bailout Wall Street, Bob Barr says we don’t have a financial meltdown, we have a “leadership meltdown”:
Barr spoke to the Charleston Rotary Club at lunch, and his remarks largely centered on the historic financial and political events of the week.
He held up a copy […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Barr: “we have a leadership meltdown””, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/10/01/barr-we-have-a-leadership-meltdown/” });