With the 2008 presidential
elections rapidly approaching,
John McCain and Barack
Obama are on everyone’s
lips, but what about a third
option? Bob Barr, the
Libertarian nominee, represented
the 7th district of
Georgia in the House of
Representatives from 1995
until 2003.
Barr served as member of
the House Judiciary committee,
committee on Financial
Services, and was vice chairman
of the Government
Reform committee. He now
practices law in a consulting
firm.
Barr is a speaker for the All
American Speakers Bureau.
He has spoken and traveled
across America and internationally.
Barr also served as
an official member of the U.S.
delegation at several major
United Nations conferences.
In an interview with Glenn
Beck, Barr got the chance to
answer the questions that
McCain and Obama were
being asked every day.
Beck asked Barr what his
stand is on oil and if he were
president how would it
change. Barr responded,
“What we need to do is we
need to free up businesses,
free up enterprise so they can
get out there and start tapping
into the huge off-shore
reserves that we know are
there.”
Barr said his stance on global
warming was, “Mankind
has done a lot of good in the
world as well as bad,” but
that he hasn’t seen any legitimate
scientific evidence that
indicates the climate changing
is mankind’s fault alone.
Barr said that it has become
such a push with the other
two parties because public
policy is generally based on
notions that sound good, and
solving global warming
sounds good to the general
population.
When asked about the
Patriot Act, Barr stated that
he cannot narrow down one
single problem with it but
that he can sum up some of
the faults.
“We didn’t need more
laws, more invasive laws. I
have no problem at all with
the government taking legitimate
evidence that somebody
is committing, or might commit,
or is about to commit a
terrorist act and investigating
them to the full extent possible.
But when you have, as
we now have in the Patriot
Act enshrined now in U.S.
law, the power of the federal
government to initiate an
investigation and gain private
records on any person in
this country without any evidence
whatsoever that they
have done anything wrong,
that to me is going too far.
And that’s the problem that
we see in a number of the
provisions in the Patriot
Act.”
Barr is a strong candidate
and a relief from the typical
Republican or Democratic
parties in this election, and a
new voice during this heated
election season.