Brushfires of Freedom

Bob will be on Brian and the Judge on Fox News Radio tomorrow at 11:20am.
Please tune in and support Bob!
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Over at The Hill, Bob writes that it is time to cut spending:
The federal government is broke. The national debt is nearly $10 trillion. The 2009 deficit was expected to run a half trillion before passage of the $700 billion Wall Street bail-out; the red ink this year alone now is likely to run nearly […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Barr: Time to cut spending”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/10/07/barr-time-to-cut-spending/” });

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 […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Barr interviewed in Columbus”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/10/07/barr-interviewed-in-columbus/” });

In the election issue of Liberty magazine, J. Bradley Jansen makes the case for Bob Barr:
Barr, of course, is the candidate most likely to follow a noninterventionist foreign policy and keep America out of unnecessary wars. He not only voted to stop Clinton’s military strikes in Yugoslavia but joined a few other congressmen in suing […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Not just for Libertarians”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/10/07/not-just-for-libertarians/” });

With stock market down another 508 points today, the Los Angeles Times asks if the bailout made the financial situation worse:
The U.S. stock market is down. World financial markets are in free fall. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson is scrambling to put in place his $700-billion rescue plan. And a billboard in Times Square pitching […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Bailouts making situation worse”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/10/07/bailouts-making-situation-worse/” });

The Columbus Dispatch covered Bob’s visit to Capital University:
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr contends that neither of his major-party opponents is showing the most important quality it takes to be president: leadership.
“Any one of us can relate to average people. That’s not presidential,” Barr told about 250 people in a speech at Capital University. […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Barr campaigns in Columbus”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/10/07/barr-campaigns-in-columbus/” });