Bob Barr is the best Presidential Candidate of 2008.

My opponent argues that Bob Barr is the best Presidential Candidate of the upcoming election. I deny this. McCain and Obama are the two best candidates, and I will explain why. First, I should address some of the so-called benefits of Bob Barr: He's going to 'cut' unnecessary costs, according to my opponent. What are these costs, and how are they unnecessary? If they are unnecessary, why do we spend money on them now? My opponent has not supported his statement with any facts, he simply has claimed it. Until he shows some examples of unnecessary spending that Bob Barr will cut and the other candidates will not, this is not a point for him at all, but rather mere conjecture. Perhaps my opponent will care to back up this claim next round. He's going to give us back our precious freedoms. Examples given by my opponent are the ability to drink at any age, the ability to do drugs, the ability to drive without insurance, the ability to own a business without a license, and the ability to gamble anywhere. First, let me point out that even if Bob Barr were miraculously put into office, he would not be able to change these things. Congress is still dominated by Democrats and Republicans, and they would not vote for things like these. Also, consider the negative effects of things like these - car insurance, for one. Note that you're only required to get LIABILITY insurance right now, which means that you're insuring the other person's vehicle if you're at fault in an accident. With this minimal insurance, they do not insure your car, they only pay a person whose car you damage. Without this, we would have people causing accidents who are unable to pay for the other person to get repairs. Person X getting liability insurance ensures that persons Y and Z will not be screwed if person X crashes into them. He's not going to go to war with Russia or Iran. Neither are McCain or Obama, unless there's a good enough reason to. Categorically stating that you will NOT go to war is foolish, since it is sometimes necessary to go to war. If the circumstances in these areas are dire enough for us to get involved, at least we can trust McCain or Obama to actually get involved. Bob Barr, at least according to my opponent, would not get involved, even if the situation called for our involvement. My opponent's last point I have not touched on is that Bob Barr has the same ideals as my opponent. This is hardly a concern for the rest of us. Sure, my opponent might be against abortion, but Obama is not, and neither are most democrats. How odd, considering my opponent professes to be a libertarian. My opponent claims that Obama seeking to allow abortion is bad, simply because he "hates abortion". In the 1920's, they hated alcohol, and so they banned it. But as a libertarian, we would expect my opponent to be against this disallowing of things simply because of subjective opinions on the subject. This fact leads me to a point: 1. My opponent has contradictory views. 2. My opponent is claiming to support Bob Barr specifically because of these contradictory views. This alone speaks against Bob Barr. Next, I'll explain why Obama and McCain are the best candidates. First, they actually have a chance to win. The only time a third party has come close to winning in recent history is Ross Peroe, and he accomplished this by spending a lot of money on his campaign. Bob Barr has been completely unable to do this - so much so that very few people reading this have likely even heard of him, let alone know about his campaign. Indeed, it seems Bob Barr is one to cut spending, but this is some spending that would be very much necessary for him to get into office. Cutting necessary spending is not quite what I, or the rest of the American people, want in our President. One thing is clear at this point, though. a vote for Bob Barr is a non-vote. One might as well not have a candidate at all. Next, consider that much of the world loves Obama. Due to our current regime, most of the world doesn't really like us too much. Obama is clearly ready to change this - he's extremely charismatic. McCain is also charismatic, insofar as he has caused the republican party to like him. When we consider what the president actually does, we can almost entirely ignore matters of policy, since it is largely congress that controls these matters. Even so, the policies of the Democrats and Republicans seem to be much more present in the general population than the policies of the libertarian party. There is a reason Republicans and Deomacrats are the de facto standard in American politics - they hold the most popular sets of ideals. The fact that Bob Barr appeals to Johnicle is no reason to consider him the best candidate.