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Plainsman1963 · 05-13-2008, 04:09 AM

Today Bob Barr announced his candidacy for President as a Libertarian.

Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as a member of the Committee on Financial Services. He now runs a consulting firm, Liberty Strategies LLC, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and with offices in the Washington, D.C. area.

Bob Barr chose to join the Libertarian Party because at this time in our nation’s history, it is essential to join and work with a party that is 100 percent committed to protecting liberty.

Bob Barr has served as Regional Representative of the Libertarian National Committee.

Bob Barr works tirelessly to help preserve our fundamental right to privacy and our other civil liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Along with this, Bob is committed to helping elect leaders who will strive for smaller government, lower taxes and abundant individual freedom.
Bob Barr

Bob Barr also occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union, and is a Board Member of the National Rifle Association. Bob Barr is also a member of The Constitution Project’s Initiative on Liberty and Security, and he served from 2003 to 2005 as a member of a project at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University addressing matters of privacy and security. In fact, recognizing Bob Barr’s leadership in privacy matters, New York Times columnist William Safire has called him “Mr. Privacy.”

Bob Barr was appointed by President Reagan to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia (1986-90), and served as President of Southeastern Legal Foundation (1990-91). He was an official with the CIA (1971-78), and has practiced law for many years.

Bob Barr on the issues

Bernie420 · 05-16-2008, 03:12 AM

Bob Barr is nothing but a Republican in Libertarian clothes. You can throw out most of the Libertarian agenda with this guy. Especially ending the drug war.

Plainsman1963 · 05-16-2008, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Bernie420

Especially ending the drug war.

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My, how times have changed. Less than a decade ago, former Georgia Republican Congressman Bob Barr was the bete noire of the marijuana reform movement. Now, he works for it. That's right, Bob Barr, the man who single-handedly derailed medical marijuana in Washington, DC, has been hired as a lobbyist by the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP).

Ironically, Barr will now lobby for the rights of states to set their own medical marijuana policies without interference from the federal government. It was his 1998 "Barr Amendment" to the annual DC appropriations vote that blocked DC officials from counting the votes in that year's medical marijuana initiative, which won with 69% of the vote.

A former prosecutor in the Atlanta suburbs, Barr was always "tough on drugs," but otherwise showed civil libertarian tendencies. After being defeated in 2002 in a campaign that featured attack ads using medical marijuana patients, Barr parted ways with the Republican Party, joining the Libertarians in 2006. He also became a lobbyist for his former arch-rival, the American Civil Liberties Union.

In an interview this week with The Politico, the former arch-drug warrior explained that times have changed. "I, over the years, have taken a very strong stand on drug issues, but in light of the tremendous growth of government power since 9/11, it has forced me and other conservatives to go back and take a renewed look at how big and powerful we want the government to be in people's lives," Barr said.

Barr brings a "great deal of credibility, particularly among people on the Republican side of the aisle," MPP government relations director Aaron Houston told The Politico. "He certainly would not have been the first person I would have expected to sign off to us, but I'm very pleased that he has," Houston said. "I'm very pleased that he has come around, and I hope he serves as an example to his former colleagues."

As a newly christened MPP lobbyist, Barr is already talking the talk. There might be "legitimate medical uses of marijuana and we ought not have this knee-jerk reaction against it, and people ought to be allowed to explore," he said.

He will also lobby to kill the Office of National Drug Control Policy's youth anti-drug media campaign, which repeated studies have shown to be ineffective. "A lot of conservatives have expressed great concern over the taxpayer money that is being wasted on this poorly run advertising campaign," said Barr, who left Congress in 2003.

Marijuana: Bob Barr to Lobby for Marijuana Policy Project | Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)

Bernie420 · 05-16-2008, 12:38 PM

So, you're saying that this leopard has changed his spots, right? Or is it that a lobbyist will say anything his employer tells him to?

Asschafing · 06-16-2008, 06:46 AM

if the libertarian party was able to nominate a true libertarian for once, i think the party could give the Dems or the GOP a run for their money.

JohnBoySmoker · 06-16-2008, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Asschafing

if the libertarian party was able to nominate a true libertarian for once, i think the party could give the Dems or the GOP a run for their money.

Too bad that never happened, right?

KWhite · 06-19-2008, 04:35 PM

Bob?

Nope, I've got a long memory....

No way.

05-13-2008, 04:09 AM	#1
Plainsman1963 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 5,053 Groans: 14 Groaned at 5 Times in 5 Posts Thanks: 345 Thanked 786 Times in 419 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: -1.000%	Bob Barr Today Bob Barr announced his candidacy for President as a Libertarian. Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as a member of the Committee on Financial Services. He now runs a consulting firm, Liberty Strategies LLC, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and with offices in the Washington, D.C. area. Bob Barr chose to join the Libertarian Party because at this time in our nation’s history, it is essential to join and work with a party that is 100 percent committed to protecting liberty. Bob Barr has served as Regional Representative of the Libertarian National Committee. Bob Barr works tirelessly to help preserve our fundamental right to privacy and our other civil liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Along with this, Bob is committed to helping elect leaders who will strive for smaller government, lower taxes and abundant individual freedom. Bob Barr Bob Barr also occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union, and is a Board Member of the National Rifle Association. Bob Barr is also a member of The Constitution Project’s Initiative on Liberty and Security, and he served from 2003 to 2005 as a member of a project at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University addressing matters of privacy and security. In fact, recognizing Bob Barr’s leadership in privacy matters, New York Times columnist William Safire has called him “Mr. Privacy.” Bob Barr was appointed by President Reagan to serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia (1986-90), and served as President of Southeastern Legal Foundation (1990-91). He was an official with the CIA (1971-78), and has practiced law for many years. Bob Barr on the issues __________________ "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." - Claire Wolfe

06-19-2008, 04:35 PM	#7
KWhite Seasoned Activist Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,223 Grams: 3,283.07 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts Thanks: 52 Thanked 76 Times in 52 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	Bob? Nope, I've got a long memory.... No way. __________________ "Your mind is your own, your body as well, from the soul we need not speak, tend it well, making those decisions you deem worthy, aware all responsibility is in your hands when the smoke clears" Kelly L. White "It is a principle of natural justice that when bad men make bad laws, or when unprincipled authorities compromise good ones, citizens are justified in protecting themselves from the very authority that compromised law and order." Gandhi Our Posting Guidelines

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Bernie420 Banned Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 132 Grams: 25.25 Groans: 0 Groaned at 14 Times in 11 Posts Thanks: 4 Thanked 53 Times in 35 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	Bob Barr is nothing but a Republican in Libertarian clothes. You can throw out most of the Libertarian agenda with this guy. Especially ending the drug war.

05-16-2008, 12:38 PM	#4
Bernie420 Banned Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 132 Grams: 25.25 Groans: 0 Groaned at 14 Times in 11 Posts Thanks: 4 Thanked 53 Times in 35 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	So, you're saying that this leopard has changed his spots, right? Or is it that a lobbyist will say anything his employer tells him to?

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Asschafing New Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 5 Grams: 98.35 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	if the libertarian party was able to nominate a true libertarian for once, i think the party could give the Dems or the GOP a run for their money.

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