Bob Barr appeared for a short interview on FOX and Friends this morning. He was able to get in his “McBama” comment about McCain and Obama being so similar. He credits Ross Perot and Ron Paul for making the climate right for a third party candidate. Great exposure for the liberty message again!
Bob Barr appeared on CSPAN’s “Road The White House” tonight in an interview recorded on Wednesday. The interview lasts about 30 minutes and it demonstrates not only Bob Barr’s excellent liberty message, but also the CSPAN host conducting an interview how interviews should be conducted. Barr goes into details on a number of subjects including his brand of Libertarianism, Ron Paul support, Defense of Marriage, and his campaign fund raising status. This is an excellent interview leading in to his national television appearance scheduled on “FOX and Friends” tomorrow morning around 6am eastern. Available below in 4 parts.
It was a hot and sunny day in Washington DC today where estimates from 1500 (on the low end) and 8000 (on the high end) participated in the Ron Paul Revolution March and Rally. Several speakers and musical guests enthralled the freedom eager crowd.
Some of the guest speakers fell directly into the stereotypical mold of what critics view as “the Ron Paul supporter”. I guess the generalizations do come from somewhere, but like any group of freedom loving souls you will find all types.
For the most part the speeches were directly in line with the Ron Paul platform. Though for my money the best speech given today was the one by Michael Scheuer, former head of CIA’s Bin Laden unit. In an eloquent prepared speech he hit on several topics near and dear to a Ron Paul supporter’s heart drawing cheers from the crowd several times. To give you an idea of the content of his speech I uploaded a video of the last five minutes of it and it is embedded below. Unfortunately, I was unable to record the entire speech. Perhaps it will be made available by someone else soon.
Following Scheuer, Adam Kokesh from Iraq Veterans Against The War spoke with great passion firing up the crowd. Chuck Baldwin then gave a shortened speech because the schedule was running late and Ron Paul was next. Ron Paul peppered his now standard rally speech with a few new comments here and a few new jokes there. It would have been nice to hear a new speech from Dr. Paul, but it’s hard to complain when the man just goes up there and delivers his liberty message every single time.
Now a word about the crowd. I attended the “Freedom Rally” in the same exact location back on April 15th and the crowd today looked to be 3 or 4 times that size. I would estimate the turnout to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500 people. However I’m no expert and there were many people coming and going and just about everyone camped out on the outskirts of the area under the trees making it extremely difficult to deduce the numbers. Even if 8000 showed up throughout the day it was a far cry from the 15,000+ that pledged to be there. That aspect made the day a bit disappointing.
That being said, the day was a wonderful experience. I stood amongst the true believing patriots and cheered for the voices and sounds of liberty. It is truly a blessing to live in a country where speaking out against those in power is not met with immediate overt violence. It is even more impressive that those anti-establishment words bounced directly off the structures where that power conducts its business. We still live in a mostly free country. We shout to others in the name of vigilance to keep it that way.
Ron Paul makes his case against the increasing “war is coming with Iran” rhetoric. It was Paul who made the same non-interventionist supporting speeches back in 2002 and 2003 regarding the U.S. invading Iraq. If anyone were to do serious research on Iran instead of accepting the current war mongering mindset one would find a country full of young people interested in America and freedom. A small percentage of the population are the hard line conservatives pushing the anti-freedom propaganda. If we end up taking military action against Iran those young pro-freedom Iranians would likely join the hard liners. At that point you can guarantee Iran will seek and obtain nuclear weapons. Perhaps even sooner than had the U.S. not intervened.
This is yet another intervention where the goal causes the exact opposite to happen. Watch Ron Paul set them straight today in the video below.
Bob Barr talks with David Asman on FOX Business News tonight. He calls McCain and Obama, McBama and then preaches his small government beliefs while pointing out the present day ripe opportunity for making a splash in this election. When Asman says “You’re not going to win the election” Barr takes exception and points out that there is a chance he could win because of the nature of America’s dissatisfaction with the usual politics.
Bob Barr appeared on CNN Newsroom tonight. He was asked if all Ron Paul supporters will be supporting him. He seemed to think so (no surprise there). He then stood ground on his libertarian beliefs while the guest kept pushing him towards conservatism and the Republican Party. The video is about 4 minutes long.
NOTE: At the end of the video (part of it gets cut off) the host extends an invitation, as he says, to all four of the Presidential candidates. He means Nader, Barr, McCain, and Obama. Apparently, Baldwin and McKinney are not candidates. So typical of the mainstream media, but I expect the Barr and Nader camps both appreciate being included.
Bob Barr appeared on ABC’s national news show “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” today. There were no glaring Ron Paul style snide comments from George, but Barr held his own, as usual and focused on delivering the message that there truly is a viable alternative to the two party duopoly. If I have one critique is that he jumped into using the third person again a couple times. When he does that he sounds a bit like an infomercial voice over. Still, it was more great exposure to the libertarian party and it’s message. Watch it below.
Ron Paul was interviewed via phone on FOX Business News yesterday. He spoke about capitalism, monetary policy, oil prices, foreign policy, Iran, income taxes, and our costly interventions overseas. Yes, he fit a lot into 5 minutes.
In case you missed this (I did) interview from a couple weeks ago here it is. Bob Barr is interviewed by South Carolina’s Southern Avenger. Good interview for Barr.
Bob Barr spoke with Newsmax’s Ashley Martella about his campaign and several issues in a YouTube video released by Newsmax today. Barr gets in all of his usual liberty minded talking points here. Good stuff.
Liberty Maven
It was a hot and sunny day in Washington DC today where estimates from 1500 (on the low end) and 8000 (on the high end) participated in the 
