McAfee will run as Libertarian Party candidate for president

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McAfee will run as Libertarian Party candidate for president

by Jon Swartz at USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/12/24/mcafee-run-libertarian-party-candidate-president/77877980/

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SAN MATEO, Calif. — John McAfee, Libertarian Party candidate for president of the United States.

The mercurial McAfee, who this year announced his run for the presidency under the Cyber Party to "disrupt the political status quo" and warn of the "dangerously ignored issue of cybersecurity," said in a phone interview today he will join the Libertarian Party, where he is likely to land the nomination.

"They have (10) candidates (for president), none of whom have personality," said a laughing McAfee, who is is running on a platform to pardon all marijuana users in prison and "stop the U.S. from being the world's policeman."

The unconventional presidential run is McAfee's latest headline-grabbing adventure. The 70-year-old cybersecurity pioneer, who was named as a "person of interest" in an unsolved 2012 murder case in Belize and later claimed he is a target of a Central American hit squad for his criticisms of the Belize government, has been the subject of profiles in USA TODAY, network news, Wired magazine and the international press.



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[darkangel218]

1. Hmm.. Wasn't he on the run from authorities a few years ago?

[applegrove]

2. Yup.

[darkangel218]

3. And now he's running for POTUS? O..K lol

:/

[PersonNumber503602]

5. Weirdest election year EVER.

[applegrove]

7. Republicans have definitely hit "LIFT OFF!"

[Trajan]

4. So now the Libertarians have a Trump-Like figurehead to lead the way ....

How .. um ... nice ....

[Sam_Fields]

6. Unlike Nixon we know where the body is buried!

[lpbk2713]

8. I remember the investigative TV piece on him from a few years ago.

He's a dark figure. The piece raised more questions than answers.

Upon Googling I find it was done by CNBC.

[catnhatnh]

9. Doesn't anybody born here want to run???

Because this guy was born in England....sigh

[Reter]

10. On a U.S. Army base

Similar to John McCain I guess, which is technically US soil.

[darkangel218]

11. Xenophobic much??

He was born on a US base!

I don't support him as a POTUS candidate, but wtf does where he was born matter?? He is still an American Citizen and eligible to run, FFS!

[HughBeaumont]

12. OH good, more neo-lib economics.

So our choices are:

Bernie Sanders; where, as noble as his intentions are, we still get years of representative Democracy gridlock thanks to the gerryPublican'd House.

or

Neo-Liberal Economics, which this country DOES NOT NEED.

or

Neo-Liberal Economics, ChristoFascism, Multiple More Wars and a 7-2 Opus Dei Supreme Court.

Nice menu.

[darkangel218]

13. Do you have a better proposal?

Politics are what they are. The will of the people rarely materializes.



I personally won't hold my breath for things to get better. Quite the opposite.

[HughBeaumont]

15. Actually . . . the Bernie Sanders proposal IS America's only smart option at this point.

Taking over historically Republican-controlled state legislatures is a lottery long-shot. That requires de-programming rural and suburban voters.

America simply isn't in a good place right now.

[darkangel218]

16. Yes!!!!

But the repuke Congress will still have the say.

I predict decades before what we want will actually come true.

[Vinca]

14. Isn't he even crazier than Trump, Cruz and the rest of the clown bus occupants?

[darkangel218]

17. He is.

He was a fugitive until not long ago.

However, he is qualified to run, if he wishes so. He was born on a US military base and is not breaking any laws.

Some haters think otherwise though (xenophobia hurts me because I am a first generation migrant myself)