From: Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@...>
Date: 2004-11-03T01:38:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] US Presidential Election

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:04:44 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:46:09 +0900, Zach Dennis <zdennis@mktec.com> wrote:
> It might help if (1) Michael Badnarik himself weren't a bit of a
> nutbar, as every libertarian candidate run in the last umpteen years
> has been, and (2) the libertarian party actually had a clue about
> pragmatism as opposed to True Belief.

Actually, I found Badnarik to be a refreshing change from the other
libertarian candidates.  In all the coverage that I've seen of him, he
seems friendly, willing to engage in dialogue, level-headed and
persuasive.  Two good references for some of his political views:

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/29/1821206&tid=226
http://badnarik.org/

Some of his more interesting arguments address corporate malfeasance
and protection of the environment, which are often complaints that
people have about inherent weaknesses in the libertarian platform. 
These issues are covered in the links above.

Carl Youngblood