Liberty MavenBob Barr Interview on Night Talk on Bloomberg Channel 06/09/2008 [Video]
June 10th, 2008 12:38 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Big Government, Bob Barr, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Drugs, Election, Foreign Policy, Free Market, Individual Responsibility, Libertarianism, Liberty, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Racism, Religion, Ron Paul, Video, War | 3 Responses
Here is another good interview with Bob Barr on the Bloomberg Channel’s “Night Talk” show. The interviewer, Mike Schneider has interviewed Ron Paul and Judge Andrew Napolitano in the past few months. He always asks insightful questions and allows ample time for his guests to answer, which is unfortunately rare in the media these days.
Barr’s drug warrior past is discussed along with the Defense of Marriage Act, the Libertarian Party, the Iraq War, Iran policy, role of religion, white supremacist supporters, and big government spending. Ron Paul even makes an appearance in a clip from his previous interview. Watch the interview in 3 parts below.
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June 10th, 2008 at 1:17 pm (#)
Bob Barr acquited himself well in this interview to defend his past record as being a champion of “liberty” as well as a conservative. However, he needs to get out of the lawyerly mold of qualifying all his positions. In this, the week that Barack Obama cast his lot with those who would go to war for Israel, Bob Barr needs to fill this vacuum and state clearly that he does not support AIPAC foreign policy, that he will bring our troops home from Iraq, that he will not go to war with Iran over nuclear weapons, and he must stop equivocating about “not telegraphing” our intentions as to when and how we will withdraw, or qualifying under what circumstances he will talk with Ahmadinejad. Down this desultory path lies another 1% showing in the Fall elections.
No man ever captured the public information if he ran a campaign afraid of making enemies. Ronald Reagan showed the way – his campaign promises may have been oversimplified, but the people knew how he felt and what he wanted, and they trusted he would find the way to do it, even understanding that doing so would be more complicated that he said. And Ronald Reagan never qualified his aspirations for military and foreign policy focused upon protecting American interests, and those alone.
Bob Barr must do the same.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm (#)
That should be, “No man ever captured the public imagination … “
June 11th, 2008 at 5:32 pm (#)
[...] Thanks to Liberty Maven, YouTubes of the interview are available in three parts: one, two and three. [...]