Funny Bob Barr interview in GQ: One hypothetical too many

GQ’s Wil Hylton has posted a lengthy, lively interview with Libertarian for Prez Bob Barr that concludes with this Monty Python-esque exchange. [Via my favorite political news aggregator blog, Sam Smith's great Undernews.]

Would you have opposed the New Deal and the Works Progress Administration?

That’s a hypothetical.

Everything I’m asking is a hypothetical.

Well, that’s a double hypothetical. That’s a hypothetical on top of a hypothetical.

Every time I ask what you’ll do as president, it’s a double hypothetical.

No, that’s just a hypothetical.

It’s two. The first hypothetical is if you’re president, the second is what you’ll do.

What can I say? I think we have a tremendous opportunity through the Libertarian Party and the libertarian philosophy to change the structure of the American government.

Well, good luck.