The Obama campaign may be loaded. But it’s the Libertarian presidential campaign that’s armed to the teeth.
This morning, the Bob Barr campaign announced that anyone making a $2,300 campaign contribution to the longshot contender before midnight (tonight) would receive an unusual thank-you gift: “a new, in the box, hard to find, 12 gauge Mossberg Model 590A pump shotgun.” It’s worth $500.
But wait, there’s more.
Barr -- a former Republican congressman who once led the impeachment charge against Bill Clinton -- will personally autograph each weapon.
According to Barr’s website every contribution “equips this campaign with the ammunition we need to fight to protect your gun rights.”
Barr has been a vocal critic of the McCain-Feingold Act, the law regulating campaign contributions, calling it an abridgement of 1st Amendment rights.
An FEC spokesman says that's fine -- the value of the gun is an in-kind contribution from whoever provides it (and $500 is well within the contribution limit) and its fine for the campaign to give it to a donor so long as the campaign is getting significant benefit from the process (i.e. that it isn't using campaign funds for the personal benefit of someone else.)
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More bang for your buck!— LivinLovinLife- OBAMA’s ad suggests people take a day off on November 4th. COST TO OUR GDP $38 billion dollars. To Obama it is all about him and his path to the white house. Though maybe we should not complain about $38 billion dollars, since this number will look minuscule compare to Obama’s tax increase. -------- Obama = Redistribution of Wealth According to his liking and the liking of his friends like Rev Right, Ayer, Farrakan, Rezco. IF ACORN succeeds in putting OBAMA in the White House, America will be LOST.— LostDemocracy
- LostDemocracy , McCain/Palin = Bush/Cheney = Doomsday— tdoc
- OBAMA SUCKS BIG TIME!!!!! SOCIALIST/LIBERAL/MARXIST = Terrorist!!!— Mike S.
- OBAMA SUCKS BIG TIME!!!!! SOCIALIST/LIBERAL/MARXIST = Terrorist!!!— Mike S.
- ooh ooh can I play too... Mike S. = LostDemocracy = Xenophobe— LivinLovinLife
- The ultimate "Whack Job". "Joe the Plumber" just got hit with a monkey wrench!— Disgusted
- OBAMA is spending 600+million this election season to talk about how he is going to REDISTRIBUTE OUR WEALTH ACCORDING TO HIS LIKEING AND THE LIKING OF HIS FRIENDS, REV. RIGHT, AYER, REZCO, LA Times REFUSES to Release a tape that shows Obama in the company of a former PLO mouthpiece (when PLO was designated a terror group). While we know that most of the media has been in bed in Barack Obama, the media have refused to dig deeper into his background.Obama also refuses to release Occidental College record, Columbia College records, Columbia Thesis Paper, Harvard College Records, Medical records, Illinois State Senate schedule, Law practice client list , Certified Copy of original Birth certificate, Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth, Harvard Law Review articles published, University of Chicago scholarly articles, Record of baptism, Illinois State Senate records. WHAT IS HE HIDING?— LostDemocracy
Comment removed.- This is funny. LostDemocracy, would you provide those doccuments to anyone who sought to use them to discredit you? So far as I know, most of those doccuments are matters of public record that anyone with the time could research and find. Why ask for medical records? Or his client list? What difference does it make if the CLB is embossed? To me, I am more interested in what kind of brain washing McCain recieved in the concentration camp, can he prove he isnt under their influnence to this day? (That last part is sarcasm, and not meant to be serious -- but to show the banality of what people like LostDemocracy are trying to instigate.)— Master Dreamz
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