Surreal Netroots Nation moments starring Bob Barr (and Gavin Newsom)

Pam, You're a hoot.

That photo made us laugh.

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by: konagod @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 15:59:38 PM CDT

Great expression

Pam, your face says it all.
OMG, what a great photo!

You may not be gay, but you may be next.

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by: LeslieK @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 16:27:22 PM CDT

thanks for the chuckle, Pam

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 17:02:15 PM CDT

who?

I never heard of any of those people listed on the rightonline agenda, except for Bob Barr.  My favorite right wing blogger bim, Debbie Schussel, was not listed.

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by: lampster @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 17:07:46 PM CDT

a bunch of no names

you should check out the blogs attending - never heard of most of them, but a real highlight is the Black TX GOP. Its web site is laughable.

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by: Pam Spaulding @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 17:20:22 PM CDT

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Our Mistress and Barr

The camera focussed on the more important (and more attractive) personality at the time.

I only hope Barr attracts enough votes in Georgia to cost McSame that state.

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by: Planner1 @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 18:04:23 PM CDT

They misspelled "Liberty"

when identifying Hiram Sasser. Probably not a surprise since the right knows so little about it.

Interestingly, one of these characters from Liberty Law claims International Law expertise. I dream of going head to head with him and reducing the expected right wing arguments to rubble....because I did not learn IL in Oklahoma or Texas where these creatures come from, I learned it at The Hague and in Bosnia......

On a lighter note:
Pam--the pic was priceless.
It needs a caption like "Even Bob Barr follows Pam Spaulding"

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 18:50:50 PM CDT

Great Pic Pam

Have to wonder about those Libertarians.  Barr is so contrary to their own platform......small government, LGBT rights, etc.  What are they thinking?

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by: woodsba @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 18:55:25 PM CDT

LGBT rights?

The Libertarian Party is only pro-LGBT through a rather tortured definition of the term.  Most of us wouldn't consider opposing anti-discrimination law, for instance, to be especially pro-LGBT.  

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by: M @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 19:51:51 PM CDT

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Actually it makes sense for him to appear

there have been people on dKos soliciting contributions for him, since wherever he appears on the ballot he siphons off quite a bit of McCain's support.

He might even throw Georgia to Obama.

As for the so called "Libertarians" - he's pretty much the death-kneel of their pretension that they supporters of individual rights.

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by: tiponeill @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 21:48:18 PM CDT

Barr = all balls no brain

Barr while impeaching Clinton for a blow job, he was having his own affair, and Flynt ratted him out.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 23:04:18 PM CDT

Internet connecting $29.99 per month.

New computer, $649.00.

Look on Pam's face: Priceless.

susanferman.wordpress.com

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by: Susan_F @ Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 23:32:21 PM CDT

Alright, I confess

I've been back a few times just to see it again.

And yes, now I've saved it to my picture file.
It makes me laugh! OMG, what a great pic!!

You may not be gay, but you may be next.

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by: LeslieK @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 at 01:46:16 AM CDT

insane photo

It's such an insane photo that I added it to the sidebar pointing to the Netroots Nation photo gallery.

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by: Pam Spaulding @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 at 06:28:11 AM CDT

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Bob Barr and Netroots

Was Barr invited by Netroots? If so, it also says something about what passes for leftwing bloggers and the leftwing in general around here.

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by: Dollabrand @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 at 08:25:01 AM CDT

Barr not invited

He just showed up on Saturday, paid the registration, and made the rounds. He was already in town for the other right-wing gig.

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by: Pam Spaulding @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 at 08:33:56 AM CDT

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Barr is like a maggot on a turd

Barr is like a maggot on a turd, yes he's disgusting and unsightly, and unpleasant...but in a while, the turd is diminished.
turd = McSame

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 at 10:22:14 AM CDT

yeah

but he's a high quality version of a turd ferguson.

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by: mmunson @ Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 02:29:46 AM CDT

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I don't care

what anyone says about him, but Newsom now in retrospect and the whole San Francisco marriage action was huge.  The thing is, Newsom used city resources and official, heck, the City Attorney, to plan and enact this civil disobedience  action.
See the documentary, In Pursuit of Equality if you can.  The filmmakers, friends of Newsom, were asked if they were interested in recording what was going on.  They had complete access to Newsome and his staff in their planning.  

Talk about a straight ally stepping forward.  Newsom did that.

Oh yeah, wild picture, Pam.  he he

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by: Karen in Kalifornia @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 at 10:28:14 AM CDT

How does the right wing bloggers expect to gain strength?

  Their presumptive nominee, John McSame can't figure out the internet, what makes them think the rest of the idiots on the right can?  

 Most of the older Republican party are stuck on AM radio.  Mention Satelite Radio and they are like HUH?

 I am not saying all older people can't figure it out, but most who can end up to be Democrats.

 Searching the right wing web-sites can get real boreing quickly.  They all say the same repeated garbage over and over again.  They truely lack diversity.  And if for any reason there is an opposing oppinion posted, it is removed and this shows up,

This comment was removed due to volgarity or obsenities.

 They are a joke.

 Oh and Pam, Love the pic.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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by: HappyCat @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 at 21:29:32 PM CDT

Now we have Bobbarr in common!

Pam, I got to meet and question Bobbarr at workshop in Washington DC last year.  This was when he was announcing his lobbying on behalf of the Marijuana Policy Project.  Yes, the author of the Barr Amendment that forbade Washington DC from enacting its voter-approved medical marijuana initiative is now lobbying for medical marijuana.

Bobbarr was also instrumental in many other drug war policies that locked up too many non-violent drug offenders.  So what changed this ardent drug warrior's perspective to supporting sensible regulation and reform of marijuana, other than leaving Congress and needing a paycheck?

9/11.  Seriously, when someone asked him, he said that since 9/11 he feared that the government had grown too intrusive.  Apparently raiding medical users in California isn't intrusive until foreign terrorists blow up our buildings.

I asked Bobbarr about his lifetime membership in the NRA, and given that mandatory minimums increase in a drug crime whenever there are guns in possession, even if they are legal and registered, whether he thought that the NRA should be supporting an end to those provisions as an unconstitutional affront to the right to bear arms?  He had never thought of that angle and he stammered something about needing to look into that issue.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

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by: RadicalRuss @ Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 16:21:38 PM CDT