From: Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@...>
Date: 2004-11-03T01:39:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] US Presidential Election

Sorry, the correct link was:

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/20/1423219&tid=11&tid=219

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:38:40 -0800, Carl Youngblood
<carl.youngblood@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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