Brushfires of Freedom

The National Taxpayers Union has a comparison of spending plans between John McCain, Barack Obama and Bob Barr. According to NTU, Bob Barr is the only candidate proposing massive spending cuts. Actually, I should say that Bob is the only candidate proposing any spending cuts.
You can read NTU’s analysis of Bob’s proposals here.
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I’ll be providing commentary on the presidential debate on Friday at Blogging the Debates, sponsored by Voter Watch. I’ll be representing Bob Barr. Other contributors to this will include the Heritage Foundation, Reason magazine and Dick Morris.
I’ll get a link up so you guys can read the commentary. Should be fun.
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Dear Friends:
The financial meltdown the economists of the Austrian School predicted has arrived.
We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? More artificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt and malinvestment […]

If you received Shane Cory’s e-mail earlier, then you know that we kicked off our radio advertising campaign today, with our television campaign kicking off next week.
You can listen to the radio ad that will be playing in targeted states here. Below is the transcription.
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Palin/McCain Bumper Sticker
Other items.

Here is video of Bob’s appearance yesterday on CNN’s American Morning.
Bob explains that the financial crisis is a failure of government, not the free market. He explains in he would put people in place in a Barr Administration that understand the marketplace and scoffs at the alarmism of the Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson:[kml_flashembed […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Video: Barr on American Morning”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/09/25/video-barr-on-american-morning/” });

In USA Today, Bob is advocating for more voices in the upcoming presidential debates:
Limiting the presidential debates to just the Republican and Democratic candidates robs the American public of different viewpoints that can expand the discussion of the challenges that face our country.
Voters are faced with a looming economic crisis and runaway federal spending, yet […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “More voices must be included in debates”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/09/25/more-voices-must-be-included-in-debates/” });

Bob has rejected the “bailout out from hell” in an editorial over at the Huffington Post, adding that the financial meltdown is not a failure of capitalism:
In the name of restoring economic confidence, the Bush administration is demanding unlimited authority to implement a massive financial bailout. The Secretary of the Treasury would become an […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Barr: Reject the “bailout from hell””, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/09/25/barr-reject-the-bailout-from-hell/” });

The New York Times says you may want to keep an eye on Bob Barr if Sen. John McCain keeps up his political stunt:

Since Obama, the Commission on Presidential Debates and the University of Mississippi, which is hosting the debate, all say it will go on, it isn’t clear what will happen if McCain fails […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Keep an eye on Barr, says Times”, url: “http://blog.bobbarr2008.com/2008/09/25/keep-an-eye-on-barr-says-times/” });