Bob Barr
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Bob Barr, a former Republican U.S. Congressman, was made the Libertarian Party's 2008 presidential candidate at their 2008 national convention in Denver, Colorado in late May.
There seem to be some questions about his position on global warming. He recently wrote: "the science of climate change remains highly complex" and went on to maintain that "There has been no warming over the last decade and scientists disagree over how much warming is likely in the future."[1]
Bob Barr voted to pass the USA Patriot Act and the Defense of Marriage Act, so his libertarianism is in some question to begin with. He did profusely apologize for voting for those two laws when he sought the Libertarian Party nomination, and promised to work to repeal them. Too bad he couldn't find the energy to oppose them when it counted. However Barr is now opposed to the Defense of Marriage Act, which was intended to limit marriage to being between one woman and one man, saying the amendment is a violation of states' rights,[2] which is a nice way to sidestep the whole issue when campaigning at a federal level.
Barr once addressed the Council of Conservative Citizens, which is a hate group. He later claimed that he found the group's views "repugnant" and had he known about them he wouldn't have spoken. He could have just asked the Southern Poverty Law Center.[3]
