Friday, January 8, 2010

Bob Barr The Voice Of Reason?????

"Yes — the not-so-bright, would-be terrorist from Nigeria got though international and domestic security mechanisms supposed to have stopped him long before the jerk lit his underwear afire before landing in Detroit. And yes — the incident happened during the administration of President Barack Obama. But the sniping at the president by Republicans, including former Vice President Cheney, and by conservative radio and TV commentators, borders on — if not passing into — asinine.
The criticism has included such childishness as blasting Obama for waiting a few days before making a national speech on the incident. For heaven’s sake, the president was briefed on the incident from the moment it occured; he made statements almost immediately indicating his concern and that he was being regularly briefed; he took time to gather the facts and meet with his national security team; and then he appeared publicly to give a rational, measured, but hard-hitting response. And for this, a former vice president criticizes him.
Partisanship truly has pervasively infected our political system when a reasonable, measured, factual, timely and substantive response by a president to a single security incident — the roots of which clearly indicate long-simmering problems that predated his tenure in office — is publicly blasted as irresponsible. In point of fact, those levelling such counterproductive attacks are the ones engaging in irresponsible behavior."


This is Bob Barr's post from his blog in the AJC. Bob Barr is about as far Right as they come, when he says Cheney et.al. are being asinine that tells me that the Never-Right are just being assholes.

Bob Barr was one of the ones that pushed the impeachment of Clinton, so he isn't one to cut a Democrat any slack.

Click on the title for a link to Bob Barr's post in the AJC.

8 comments:

  1. I don't know who Bob Barr is, don't recall ever hearing the name before. There is just too much shit out there for one brain to try to keep track of.

    Well, I don't have the time and energy to take care of it so you take care of it.

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  2. what? the voice of reason from the right? be still my heart..

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  3. Barr has grown into more of a libertarian than his old reactionary self. He was the fanatical drug warrior that suppressed the DC voters' cannabis reform by ballot measures.

    He seems to remember the Bill of Rights a bit more clearly than when he was in office. At least he is no Neocon.

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  4. Bob Barr has always been a libertarian (he drove his wife to the clinic and paid for the abortion before he divorced her), it's just that he is no longer a FuckingRepublican now that he is out of office. The only reason I can see for him to so fanaticly toe the party line while in office is the money. Do as we say or you don't get money for your re-election.

    Never have been able to figure out why libertarians think they have to go FuckingRepublican. Could be their stand on guns and taxes.

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  5. Bob Barr has always been a libertarian (he drove his wife to the clinic and paid for the abortion before he divorced her),

    Ha ha ha ha ha... Hey, stop cracking me up.

    I don't care what party he is, all politicians are frigging crazy. I haven't studied the libertarians, guess I'll look into it some.

    I don't recall the bill of rights saying that everyone has the right to be idiots.

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  6. Libertarianism is a term adopted by a broad spectrum of political philosophies which advocate the maximization of individual liberty[1] and the minimization or even abolition of the state.

    So if you abolish the state who runs the show? A monarch?

    I'm all for liberty, with limits, giving monkeys maxim liberty is just asking for trouble.

    I don't need idiots on the highways that thinks it's their right to go 100 MPH, for example.

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  7. The creed of all politicians: IF YOU CAN’T DAZZLE THEM WITH BRILLIANCE – BAFFLE THEM WITH BULLSHIT

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  8. "IF YOU CAN’T DAZZLE THEM WITH BRILLIANCE – BAFFLE THEM WITH BULLSHIT"

    The Old Lady had that on a t-shirt and whenever she went in this one bar, she got a free drink because the beertender loved the saying.

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