Village Voice Interview with Bob Barr

[tonyr1988]

Here's a decent interview with Village Voice and Bob Barr:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/lets_run_for_pr/

If you don't want to read it all, here are some of the best (IMO) excerpts:

My plan for Iraq is to signal immediately to the Iraqi government that they are going to have to start taking responsibility for their own security, their own economy, their own political development. That I, unlike President Bush but like candidate Bush, do not believe the responsibility of the United States government and military is to nation build and it is not to occupy foreign nations. And we will begin immediately a withdrawal.

(President Bush vs. candidate Bush - VERY NICE)

-He thinks Obama talks nice, but isn't substantive. From his experience in Congress, Obama has been very big-government.

-He wants to cut entire departments (like Dept of Justice) and significantly decrease others (Energy)

-Don't increase regulations to combat the recession (I wish he would've talked about the dollar falling, but it was a relatively short answer anyway)

-On the Borat clip:

VV: Do you have a good sense of humor about it?

BB: Hell yeah! If you can’t have a good sense of humor about this business, the way I look at it, you have no business being in politics.