Here I am checking email on Sunday morning, August 17, and up pops a new email from the Bob Barr for President campaign. The email says the Libertarian Party nominee for president is “fighting mad” because he’s “been left out in the cold.”

To be more specific, former Congressman Bob Barr was excluded from the first nationally televised event with Barack Obama and John McCain at Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, staged by  church pastor and bestselling author Rick Warren.

“We’ve had calls placed to Pastor Warren from very powerful leaders from the left and the right,” wrote Barr campaign manager Russell Verney. “We sent in our personal request, and placed numerous phone calls that have not been returned.”

Put plainly, Barr was barred from the event.

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