Chuck Baldwin stands against nearly everything I believe in, as far as economics (and I would assume quite a few other things, I’m not sure where he stands on every issue). But I probably agree with Chuck Baldwin on more issues, as a progressive (and Baldwin is a conservative), than I do Barack Obama. Chuck Baldwin is for getting out of the WTO and repealing NAFTA, he’s for eliminating the Patriot Act as unconstitutional, he believes we’re moving toward a police state in this country (why can’t Barack Obama speak this plainly about what Bush has been doing to our civil liberties?), he says openly that we are an occupying force in Iraq, internationally he’s against us meddling in the affairs of other foreign nations and engaging in empire building (Obama wants to escalate the war on terror, increase the military budget, and increase funding for the foreign government subverting National Endowment for ‘Democracy’), he’s for bringing back tariffs on foreign imports and having a trade policy that works best for the American people (Obama has strongly opposed being called a protectionist, and although he has talked about renegotiating NAFTA he did refer to himself as a free trader in the final presidential debate with John McCain), he is against using national guard or reserve troops in foreign theaters, he is for only declaring war with a proper declaration of war from Congress (this has not been done since WWII), and lastly he wants to eliminate the Federal Reserve (which is not really Federal and is owned by private banks).

I’m not voting for Chuck Baldwin, he does have some views that are unacceptable to me (I’m talking more on the level, if there were a hypothetical election with only Chuck Baldwin and Barack Obama); I am supporting Cynthia McKinney, but if I had to rank the presidential candidates, I’d probably put Chuck Baldwin fourth after Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, and Brian Moore of the Socialist Party. And, certainly, I would register a vote for Chuck Baldwin, before I would place one for Barack Obama.