Waiter: What would like to drink?
Patron 1: I’ll have scotch on the rocks, and also please bring me some ice water.
Patron 2: Can I see the wine list?
Waiter: Sorry. We only serve Coke and Pepsi.
Welcome to American democracy.
Like most Presidential elections, this year we’re offered two candidates that are more the same than different. [...]

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An endorsement, of sorts, from me over at stogieguys.com:
As detailed in Monday’s article on Obama and McCain, neither candidate offers a particularly impressive agenda [for cigar smokers]. When push comes to shove, we suppose McCain is marginally better on cigar issues as a whole, but not in a particularly meaningful way.
Not to mention that his record suggests [...]

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Over at the American Conservative’s blog, Daniel McCarthy observes some of the same things I did about the Barr campaign’s actions regarding Ron Paul’s September 10th presser before concluding that Barr has only himself to blame for losing Dr. Paul’s endorsement to Chuck Baldwin (along with Barr’s own campaign manager Russ Verney).
By the way, also [...]

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Not long ago I randomly met a Libertarian Party staffer in a local drinking establishment who told me that the Barr campaign has high hopes for landing the endorsement of the NRA.
While I think he probably should get it (Barr gets an A+ rating from the group and is an NRA board member, while McCain [...]

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Here’s a leftist plot I can get behind:

This blogger, sickened by Rush Limbaugh’s noxious “Operation: Chaos,” which may or may not have influenced the Texas primary (and quite possibly Ohio and Indiana) in favor of Senator Clinton — and thus lengthening the Democratic primary process — is fed up. We’re mad as hell and not [...]

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This poll (pdf) echoes my thoughts on the “Barr as the Nader of 08″ meme.  According to the poll, Barr draws equally from Democrats and Republicans (4 percent), and gets an even larger chunk of independents.
The fact remains, Bob Barr’s candidacy and its potential for success, derives squarely from the fact that the two major parties (and particularly [...]

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A good appearance by Bob Barr on George Stephanopoulos’ show:

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Yesterday the AP wrote an article about the potential for Bob Barr to be “the Ralph Nader of 2008.”
Sure, the sum of John McCain and Bob Barr’s vote totals could end up being enough to win the presidency, despite McCain losing to Obama, but it is foolish to assume that absent Bob Barr, McCain would [...]

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