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Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

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Good On Bob Barr

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Bob Barr’s campaign, reacting to a Stormfront endorsement:

The Barr campaign is not going to be a vehicle for every fringe and hate group to promote itself. We do not want and will not accept the support of haters. Anyone with love in their heart for our country and for every resident of our country regardless of race, religion, nationality or sexual orientation is welcome with open arms.

Tell the haters I said don’t let the door hit you on the backside on your way out!

Good for him.

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  1. 1.

    johninpt

    Not bad for somebody who was such a douchebag in Congress. It almost makes me like him, but not quite.

  2. 2.

    BombIranForChrist

    Wow, looks like Mr. Barr underwent some kind of conversion from “bat shit insane” to “that kooky guy who looks a little like the bespectacled bad guy from the first Indiana Jones movie”.

    There is hope for the Republic.

  5. 5.

    demimondian

    I’m not a huge fan of his, but it’s definitely a step up from the guy who led the morality police in 1998.

    I’m still not a libertarian, though.

  6. 6.

    southpaw

    “We do not want and will not accept the support of haters.”

    I’m looking at you, Harriet Christian.

  7. 7.

    Zifnab

    It’s so refreshing to see one group of haters slowly but firmly back the fuck away from another group of haters. It’s nice to know that Bob Barr thinks we should be crushed under the heel of our unregulated corporate masters regardless of our race, credo, sexuality, or ethnicity.

  8. 8.

    El Cid

    Does this mean that Barr’s ability to draw Republicans dissatisfied with McCain just dropped significantly?

  9. 9.

    Chris Johnson

    Bah. people are complicated and get to be wrong about some things and right on about others.

    Good for you, Bob Barr!

  11. 11.

    bwaage

    Sooo… I’m not the only one that thought of the Player Haters Ball sketch from Chappelle when I read that, right?

  12. 12.

    Michael Gass

    I’m glad we can go back to debating real issues instead of which lunatic fringe is screaming loudest.

    Good for Barr!

    Now, lets talk turkey: when does Barr want troops out of Iraq? is he for the Webb GI Bill?

    Oh wait… Barr is a “reformed” GOP’r? Like the lady in Texas who ran as an Independent, lest she lose as a Republican? Like Lieberman who ran as an Independent because he lost as a Republican in Democratic clothing? I give the Obama campaign how?

  14. 14.

    Bubblegum Tate

    Does this mean that Barr’s ability to draw Republicans dissatisfied with McCain just dropped significantly?

    ZING!

  15. 15.

    PeterJ

    OT, but

    Cheney was at the Press Club to congratulate this year’s winners of the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. During a question-and-answer session toward the end of the luncheon, someone asked the vice president about his wife Lynne Cheney’s revelation on MSNBC last year that “Dick and Barack Obama are eighth cousins.”

    The questioner jokingly asked the vice president if he and Obama were going to have a family reunion, to which Cheney replied he would “have no objections” though he said he doubted Obama would want one – “certainly not before November.”

    Then came the offensive punch line. Cheney explained that during the course of researching his family lineage for Lynne’s memoir “Blue Skies, No Fences” last year, he learned there were Cheneys on both his father’s and his mother’s side of the family. There was a Richard Cheney on his mother’s side, the vice president said.

    “So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don’t even live in West Virginia,” Cheney quipped.

  17. 17.

    slippytoad

    I’m glad to see that since Macaca sank George Allen, rightwing politicans are disassociating themselves from racist nutjobs. These people have been out of America’s mainstream for several decades, but a deferential press has been afraid to call prominent politicians on their disgusting associations with these groups.

    The Intertubz strike again.

  18. 18.

    passerby

    “We denounce anybody who doesn’t want to treat everybody equally under the law.”

    This simple declaration from a Barr consultant is so straightforward.

    A great comeback to any and all manner of bigotry.

    The times they are a’changing.

    T

  19. 19.

    tBone

    I never thought there would come a point when I could think to myself “You know, it’s possible that I like Bob Barr more than the Clintons.” And yet here I am.

  20. 20.

    Octavian

    Now, lets talk turkey: when does Barr want troops out of Iraq? is he for the Webb GI Bill?

    He wants the troops out of Iraq immediately. Not sure about Webb’s bill. (I’m not a Barr supporter.)

  22. 22.

    Krusherking

    Thank you Scotty, for that youTube clip. I sent it to my son, a rabid right wing Republican with a great sense of humor (I would think the rabid republican thing would contrindicate a sense of humor, but apparently not), who can’t STAND Bob Barr and to his wife, a nice liberal Democrat, who is in the process of weaning my grandson and converting him to a formula baby. I knew my daughter in law would love the cheese bit and my son might look at Barr in a more tolerant light if he makes him laugh.

    After the past 6 months or so of the never-ending primary I value tolerance a lot more than I ever did before.

  23. 23.

    Chuck Butcher

    GWB was the straw that broke the Barr camel back. He and some other conservatives broke out in front on civil liberties over a year ago. That at least was refreshing.

  24. 24.

    The Moar You Know

    “We denounce anybody who doesn’t want to treat everybody equally under the law.”

    So he’s in favor of gay marriage, then. Glad to hear it.

  25. 25.

    Mary

    Bob Barr saying he is better, but DOING NOTHING tangibly better is better than the CLINTONS??? OK, jumping the shark has a whole new meaning now.

  29. 29.

    The Moar You Know

    John, that’s why I keep coming back here – very instructional.

    As per the link:

    Indeed, the primary reason for which I authored the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 was to ensure that each state remained free to determine for its citizens the basis on which marriage would be recognized within its borders, and not be forced to adopt a definition of marriage contrary to its views by another state.

    Now, to me this is the most disingenous crap argument ever made – “I authored an overwhelming federal law defining marriage in only one way to insure that states had the freedom to differ” as that surely was not his original intent. If the law ended up allowing that scenario, it was accidental.

    However, it seems that Mr. Barr has had a change of heart on a number of issues, and I welcome it. I think folks of every stripe have probably learned a thing or two about the desirability of unlimited federal power since GWB took office.

  30. 30.

    Tom

    Now, to me this is the most disingenous crap argument ever made – “I authored an overwhelming federal law defining marriage in only one way to insure that states had the freedom to differ” as that surely was not his original intent.

    Plus…even if it were his intent, there’s still the little problem that such an intent opposes the Constitutional guarantee that states recognize each others’ actions. He could get around that by arguing that the Supreme Court’s “public policy” exception should apply to same-sex marriage, but that very argument is discriminatory. Yet he includes sexual orientation among those categories he doesn’t want his supporters discriminating against.

    I suspect he’s changing his views for the better in this respect, but it’s harder to give him points for improvement if we can’t come to agreement as to whether anything’s actually improved.

  31. 31.

    Delia

    I never thought there would come a point when I could think to myself “You know, it’s possible that I like Bob Barr more than the Clintons.” And yet here I am.

    What have you got against good hard-working Americans — white Americans?

  32. 32.

    tBone

    What have you got against good hard-working Americans—white Americans?

    Clearly I’ve been hypnotized by a potent blend of arugula, latte and stealth Muslim/radical Afro-Christian propaganda.

  33. 33.

    Bruce Baugh

    I love clear plain declarations in politics. I don’t have to like anything else about Barr to really, really approve of this one.

  34. 34.

    wasabi gasp

    You know shit sucks when shooin’ away Nazis is enough to get you a gold star.

  36. 36.

    Fe E

    wasabi gasp Says:

    You know shit sucks when shooin’ away Nazis is enough to get you a gold star.

    Wow, if that doesn’t just say it all….

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