{"id":8316,"date":"2017-02-10T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2017-02-10T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:46:28","slug":"sure-to-come-weather-vane-swivels-in-his-strongly-held-opinions-that-week-how-is-bob-barr-still-relevant-we-love-letters-to-the-editor-this-one-in-the-mdj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/10\/sure-to-come-weather-vane-swivels-in-his-strongly-held-opinions-that-week-how-is-bob-barr-still-relevant-we-love-letters-to-the-editor-this-one-in-the-mdj\/","title":{"rendered":"“sure-to-come, weather-vane swivels in his \u201cstrongly held\u201d opinions that week” – How is Bob Barr still relevant? We love letters to the editor! This one in the MDJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo: Weathervane factory<\/p><\/div>\n

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Letter to the editor<\/strong>
\nMarietta Daily Journal \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>
\nFebruary 10, 2017<\/p>\n

How is Bob Barr still relevant?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DEAR EDITOR:<\/p>\n

Here at our house, we were surprised to see the MDJ has made Bob Barr a regular columnist. What decade is this again? This should be amusing, if anyone pays attention.<\/p>\n

I hope that someone reads all of Barr\u2019s columns, if only to be able to note the sure-to-come, weather-vane swivels in his \u201cstrongly held\u201d opinions that week.<\/p>\n

Those who watched him go from a Republican congressman who voted for immigration enforcement in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to being an \u201copen borders if you say you aren\u2019t a terrorist\u201d Libertarian candidate for president and then back to a GOP candidate for congress in 2014<\/a> who had two simultaneous and opposite positions on e-Verify worker verification know that for Barr, there is no firm ground on many topics. Especially immigration.<\/p>\n

Our prediction is he soon will try to strike fear in the hearts of readers with a \u201cworker shortage\u201d theory, comes out in support of an immigration amnesty and for increasing already too-high legal immigration numbers.<\/p>\n

We remember that the MDJ endorsed him for Congress two years ago, but by putting Barr in a regular opinion page spot the \u201cconservative voice\u201d of the MDJ op-ed page is most certainly devolving.<\/p>\n

That is as polite as we can make it.<\/p>\n

Someone will undoubtedly read Barr\u2019s columns and shifting opinions, but we won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Bill Buckler<\/p>\n

Kennesaw<\/p>\n

HERE<\/a> – (pay wall)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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