Former Representative Bob Barr, who is reportedly giving a run for the presidency as a Libertaran serious consideration, said that Obama's remarks about God and guns shows him to be "simplistic and very arrogant:

The Founding Fathers "might have been bitter about being under the thumb of the British," former Rep. Bob Barr said Saturday, after reading a transcript of Sen. Barack Obama's statement suggesting that economic bitterness causes small-town voters to "cling to guns or religion."

Obama's analysis is "way off base, it's awfully simplistic and very arrogant," said Barr, a board member of the National Rifle Association. "I don't think he understands people....

Calling Obama's remarks "absolute nonsense," Barr said: "People in American don't support the Second Amendment because they're bitter. It's because they love freedom and they understand freedom -- apparently a lot better than Senator Obama does."