McCain Afraid of Barr

[Herb Schaffler]

October 21st, 2008 by Jason Pye
Bob Barr told the Washington Times that [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This No Hillary For President Forum Link. , which is why McCain is shadowing him:

Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr says Republicans are so afraid that he will spoil things for Sen. John McCain that the Republican presidential nominee is shadowing him, scheduling appearances in battleground states to match Mr. Barr’s own campaign events.
“I suppose it’s a compliment,” Mr. Barr told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. “It confirms that the states where we are spending our time are really the critical ones, in which the gaps between Senators McCain and [Barack] Obama are smaller than what we are polling.
“The two states we just found out about today are Ohio and New Hampshire, where McCain apparently added stops to his schedule in order to shadow us,” said Mr. Barr, who in months past had polled in the high single digits in some states.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds dismissed the claim.
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Mr. Barr said the next president should roll back the authority that he said President Bush has claimed in order to collect communications of U.S. citizens. Mr. Barr also said that if elected, he would try to return the commander in chief’s role “to what it was intended to be” by reining in wartime assertions of presidential authority.
On the international front, he said he would “dismantle NATO,” warned against moving to embrace the former Soviet republic of Georgia and blasted Mr. McCain’s “ridiculous statement that we are all Georgians.”
He said he sees both Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain as predisposed to being interventionist presidents.
“I don’t have a great comfort level with either one,” he said.

[Herb Schaffler]

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