I attended Friday's event at Reason magazine's DC
office where Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr
"debated" John McCain and Barack Obama. Barr viciously mocked the
proposed bailout as a boondoggle: "The bailout plan, anyway you
slice it, is a bad idea for America." In doing so, Barr aligned
himself with the firestorm of grassroots opposition to the bill --
congressional staffers report that their phones are ringing off the
hook and practically all the calls are from bailout opponents.
FreedomWorks -- the free-market think tank
led by Barr's former GOP House colleague Dick Armey -- has a list
of "Ten Reasons to Oppose the Wall Street
Bailout." With Big Government coming to the rescue of Big
Business, the bailout presents one of those rare occasions when
libertarians find themselves handed an issue with widespread
populist appeal.
Here's video of Friday post-debate Q&A with Reason editor
Matt Welch, in which Barr addresses foreign policy, the bailout and
Ron Paul's recent endorsement of Constitution Party presidential
candidate Chuck Baldwin:
topics:
Foreign Policy, John McCain, Barack Obama, Business, Constitution
