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McCain Ticket Assumes Expanded Presidential Powers: Governor Palin looks forward to greater legislative power as Vice President

Atlanta, GA – During the first and only vice-presidential debate, Republican candidate Sarah Palin stated, "I'm thankful the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president if that vice president so chose to exert it in working with the Senate and making sure that we are supportive of the president's policies and making sure too that our president understands what our strengths are."

"Despite the poor sentence structure and grammar, which rendered the comment largely unintelligible, lurks the disturbing notion that the powers of the vice president, already expanded dangerously by the current vice president, Dick Cheney, should be expanded even more," said Bob Barr, Libertarian Presidential nominee.

"For eight years, the United States has suffered as George Bush has assumed the role of a unitary executive," Barr continues. "In the vice-presidential debate, Governor Palin's expectation of playing the role of Senate whip and enforcer of presidential policy is disappointing as it is simply an extension of the heavy-handed tactics used by the Bush administration," stated Bob Barr.

The Constitution states that, "The Vice President of the United States shall serve as the President of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided."

Barr continued, "The damage instigated by Vice President Dick Cheney – specifically, the invasion of Iraq – is a perfect example of why we should allow the legislative branch to operate as an independent branch not beholden to what are often short-sighted whims of the executive branch."

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003.

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138600

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Truthfully, this may have been the wackiest thing Palin said. And, boy, did Biden cut her off at the knees over it.

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DonnaLadd

Date

2008-10-03T14:44:53-06:00

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138677

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I would consider Bob Barr at this point to be maverick than McCain. Though he is a conservative-leaning Libertarian, he's been among the more outspoken conservatives in leading the charge against the assault on the Constitution.

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golden eagle

Date

2008-10-06T21:52:20-06:00