{"id":1820,"date":"2010-06-01T22:28:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T03:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2010-06-01T22:28:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T03:28:19","slug":"from-the-libertarian-convention-an-interview-speeches-hopefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/from-the-libertarian-convention-an-interview-speeches-hopefully\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Libertarian Convention: An Interview &#038; Speeches (hopefully)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the terms of my parole, I&#8217;m not allowed to travel west of the Mississippi. Thus, I could not attend the national Libertarian Party convention in St. Louis this past weekend.  But here are a couple highlights.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Moore, the producer of the Voice of Radical Dissent, taped a lively sparring match between Wayne Allyn Root and Nicholas Burdohan, Kurtis Liston, and himself.  The exchange with Root begins about 6 minutes into the podcast <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vordshow.com\/episode-115-a-nonpolitico-in-a-political-world-part-two-2010-lp-national-convention\">here<\/a><\/strong>.  Root is very forthright about his political calculations and media strategy. <\/p>\n<p>OK &#8211; as for the speeches &#8211; I was planning to link to <a href=\"http:\/\/ernesthancock.org\/\"><strong>Ernie Hancock&#8217;s <\/strong><\/a>concession speech.  I have heard fine things about the speech.  Ernie understood the Ron Paul Revolution much better than many people actually working for the Ron Paul campaign.  But I haven&#8217;t found a link to it yet, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, I&#8217;m looking for a link to the audio or video of Bob Barr&#8217;s keynote speech to the convention.  He had a line about how his 2008 Libertarian Party presidential campaign suffered from &#8220;meager resources.&#8221;   (This line was not included in the text of his talk he posted on his own website). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the terms of my parole, I&#8217;m not allowed to travel west of the Mississippi. Thus, I could not attend the national Libertarian Party convention in St. Louis this past weekend. But here are a couple highlights. 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