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Roseanne Barr Joins Other Green Party Candidates
Comedic innovator, proud grandma and self-proclaimed domestic goddess Roseanne Barr has announced her candidacy for President of the United States as well as for Prime Minister of Israel. Although some have argued that the former is so dictated to by the latter that holding both offices is unnecessarily redundant.
In less than 48 hours since Barr submitted her paperwork to the Green Party, a quick web search has yielded more than seven hundred links featuring news stories or commentary.
Many of the articles – like the one that appeared in the Christian Science Monitor – question Barr’s sincerity as she throws her hat into the ring.
And the wild fire of speculation on whether this was just another of Barr’s shenanigans or a true bid for the nomination representing the nation’s hundreds of thousands of Green Party members isn’t unique to the media outlets across the land, but in the discussion topic of rank and file greens as well.
The Green Party has several declared candidates for president. Dr. Kent Mesplay and Dr. Jill Stein have both tossed their lesser known hats in the ring. And while neither the PhD nor the MD are U.S. household names the way Barr is, they have both dedicated the lion share of their adult lives to enlarging the reach of the green agenda and effectively assuring that across the nation Roseanne – and others – might join.
Mesplay, the PhD, has his doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from North Western University and works as an air quality specialist in California. He’s also part Blackfoot Indian, multi-lingual and has lived with aboriginals outside the U.S. Mesplay grew up in the aftermath of WW II and spent much of his career perfecting prosthetics for amputees before shifting his talents to educating businesses on how to pollute less. Or – if they don’t listen to him – as an examiner, he gets to meter out their punishments.
Stein, the MD, got both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard University. She’s an author, lecturer, practitioner and nationally recognized authority on toxics and how they affect children. While she, like Barr, is also a mom, she has more in common with Mesplay when it comes to politics. She has long championed the cause of the Green Party – known as the Green Rainbow Party in her home state of Massachusetts. In votes earned, she ranks at the top of the pack of hundreds of past state wide candidates who have challenged the major two party system. Her popularity has secured ballot status for the greens in a state considered in lock-step with the Democratic Party.
And Roseanne Barr is a celebrity because she’s a critically acclaimed actress and comedienne. A less than exhaustive search of her biographies yielded nothing in the way of educational background. But her life’s experience as a person who rose from humble beginnings is apparent. Barr didn’t become rich and famous by forgetting her origins but by elevating them and celebrating them while millions of American TV viewers tuned in.
Barr’s long running sit-com highlighted the working poor – proving what the average American already knew – that folks who decorate the back of their couch with granny square afghans and who think pizza night is a big deal are the heart and soul of the country. And that these everyday heroes have a sense of humor: they can laugh at each other and they can laugh at themselves.
Now in the interest of full disclosure I must admit that this triumvirate of Green Party candidates is very important to me because the Green Party is very important to me. I have twice run for Governor of Maine – the first time as an independent whose success in the polls re-established ballot access for the party – and I was our 2004 Vice Presidential Candidate.
As a woman who has dedicated the last fifteen years of my political identity to building the Green Party, I enthusiastically welcome Roseanne to the Green Party and I hope that the increased exposure her participation brings will allow us all to show why I – and hundreds of thousands of others – have so long toiled for this party. We greens believe in humanity. We long to end corporate control of our elections and consequently our lives. We believe infectious disease, famine and war can be eradicated as our world’s leading killers and we believe that a sustainable economy comes from valuing the worker as well as the product they provide. We believe in personal liberty and that it applies to all humans regardless of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. We believe in love and that love can be the basis of our governing units which would assure that all are treated equally. In the Green Party we believe in ourselves – so we aren’t afraid to govern cooperatively – and that means we believe in you.
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Show AllIt is good to see that Common Dreams is finally drawing attention to third party candidates such as Roseanne Barr, Dr. Mesplay, and Dr. Stein. But one has to wonder why so few articles, if any, are being published about another third party candidate named Rocky Anderson.
Rocky is a great guy but he should have joined the Green Party.
Are you implying that a candidate like Anderson should not be considered because he is not a member of the Green Party? I fail to see why his not being a member of the Green Party should steer progressives, leftists and other Americans from voting for him.
http://www.voterocky.org/solutions
It's not so much that I want Rocky Anderson to be a Green Party member but that his positions are almost in line with the Green Party that I just don't see why the need to take a separatist route. Still, I continue to respect his decision and will see who gets on the ballot come November. I have already donated to both Rocky Anderson and Jill Stein. Maybe it's possible that Rocky thinks that the name "Green Party" is not as appealing as "Justice Party", I don't know.
As for no mention of Rocky, it could be the weight of celebrities that's causing it. If Nader endorses Rocky or Michael Moore also chooses to run as a Justice Party candidate or be Rocky's running mate, then that could change.
It takes more than "name appeal" to build a party.
The difference between Rocky Anderson and Roseanne Barr, Jill Stein, Kent Mesplay is that the latter three are willing to reach out to a common base to seek support in a party which has already worked hard to get ballot access in many states, has local organizations in place, has over 100 people in office and many more who had done so in the past.
It takes time to build institutional resources. It's important to see that even though Roseanne Barr is a celebrity she trust a party's democratic and structural process rather than "self selection."
I may like Rocky Anderson's politics but it's nearly impossible to run for president and have a structural base built at the same time. The Greens had been working locally for years, running for local office, getting ballot status, before they were able to organize for a presidential campaign.
I agree on the structural advantage the Green Party has. It's also possible that Rocky has a different view since he comes from UT, a crimson "red" state where most voters have been brainwashed into opposing anything green other than money. I would be interested in what Rocky has to say about why he chose Justice instead of Green Party just to be sure.
Rocky Anderson speaks positively about the Green Party. However, he says that they've had some organizational problems and that they are perceived as a sliver of the Democratic Party. See his interviews on www.voterocky.org. where he answers that very question.
Thanks. I've been looking at his site on his positions on the issues. Now that you mentioned his take on the Green Party, I confess that I really need to catch up on these candidates more than I thought. It is true that the Green Party used to allow the Democratic Party to control where to compete and all. That and poor organization must have also convinced Nader to run on his own.
cseeman states that "I may like Rocky Anderson's politics but it's nearly impossible to run for president and have a structural base built at the same time." As I have attempted to point out numerous times on this web site, what Rocky Anderson proposes to do is to try and attract people, and especially young people, to his cause through such social media as Facebook and and Twitter.
I wish that all these guys would unite and pool their resources to build the Green Party or some new party and bring it to the forefront.
Sadly Rocky Anderson would rather start his own party. I don't consider that realistic given the amount of work it takes to gain and retain ballot access and build a local base to provide support as well as the resources to run local races. A party can't be build by an individual candidates without a "ground game" already under development.
"But one has to wonder why so few articles, if any, are being published about another third party candidate named Rocky Anderson." -- Erroll
I agree with your concerns. Several times I have brought up the 3rd Party candidates on various CD threads over the past two or three months, along with a handful of other CD writers. A progressive website should, at the very least, be interested in informing us, "we the people," and "we the readers."
At least with Roseanne having declared herself a candidate for the Green Party, various journalists, along with various websites, may finally take note that there are options outside the 2-party status quo system. However, that said, the fact that Dr. Mesplay, Dr. Stein and Rocky Anderson had already declared themselves as candidates from two different parties should have been enough to warrant attention.
Your last sentence is important. The media pay attention only when a celebrity is involved, or when "wardrobe mishap" occurs, or when someone swears on an award show. Real qualifications are not enough to get attention these days.
The practical problem is that the media basses it's decisions on ratings since the higher the ratings the more they can charge advertisers.
This is even the issue in "public" media such as NPR and PBS where higher ratings mean more donations.
For websites it's the number of views.
At least for the web, where there's no major scarcity for bandwidth, articles can get published and the site managers can examine analytics to gage interest. The problem is if a site is too "busy" with information it can actually fragment or discourage views.
I'm not saying the above is "right" but the logistical problems are a bit deeper than simply "ignoring" third parties. We have to raise our visibility. Occupy did it with the use of their Live Streaming, Facebook, Twitter. Get enough views and audience engagement and the mainstream media may start to cover (because it will fulfill their ratings profit motive).
For all those reading this article, how many of you posted to Facebook or Tweeted it? The more views that leads to here, I suspect the increased likelihood Common Dreams will post more third party articles. You have to be the media activist.
While it is true that articles about Green party candidates and Anderson are rare, are not CD posters doing exactly the same thing when they stubbornly refuse to mention that there is a candidate and a party that are unambiguously left wing?
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It's great that is drawing some attention to the fact the Greens even exist. Given that the party very much likes people who have been active within it (reasonable on the whole - although tossing Nader aside I think was nearly suicidal), I don't see her getting a nomination.
I hope Greens are welcoming to Barr and encourage her to stick around and support whoever gets the nomination.
I'll say this - I hope that any Green candidate will at least vote for themselves (!!!), and never ever ever a Democrat:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/07/292058.shtml
Voting for yourself is a good way to get taken seriously. At least Barr has the right "screw you" attitude for the job from that perspective.
CD, I don't know what to say but thanks a million for your recognition of the Greens and thumbs up ! From Ralph Nader to Green Party, this could be the start of something new and improved. Best of luck.
By the way, I didn't know that Mesplay was running. We gotta start looking closer at these third party primaries. I usually don't take celebrities running seriously but RB is an interesting one. Whoever the Green Party nominee is, Michael Moore could be the running mate and possibly set a new record on changing the dynamics of the presidential race.
Thank you Common Dreams for giving people a glimpse outside of the corporate fence.
Max Keiser interviewing Roseanne Barr on his TV show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaU3wX6N1Tc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The Barr interview starts around 13:50 into the program.
Thank you Common Dreams for posting this, and Thanks to Pat LaMarche for writing it (and for running for VP in 2004). Jill Stein won overwhelmingly in an online poll (http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2012/02/01/green-party-watch-presidential-poll-february-2012/), and she took 90% of the vote in the nations first Green Primary in Ohio over the weekend. I've always been a huge fan of Rosanne, and I love that her "celebrity" is bringing national recognition to the Party. But despite my fondness of her, I will be voting in my primary for Jill Stein. Roseanne is getting people to look at the Green Party, and Stein and Mesplay are there to show those people what the party is all about. Now we just need the rest of the progressive community to realize that the Democrats do not represent them, and as long as they are competing with the Republicans for the next big campaign contribution, they never will. If you want to vote for someone that actually practices the progressive values that matter the most to you, Green is the only way to go!
Evey progressive in the country could vote Green and it would not make a difference. The numbers are far, far too small.
The Green party is an opportunity for self-expression. As such, it is fine. All candidacies are an opportunity for talking politics with people. Talking only to progressives, which means a very, very narrow demographic, does not afford much of an opportunity for that.
The national political discussion should not be about elections, since voting is merely a reflection, and a pale one at that, of the national political discussion.
Candidacies are a wonderful way to get messages out.
For example the minute I got ballot access I was automatically entered into a fact sheet given to a couple hundred thousand Catholics by the church and Comcast (of all corporations!) had to run 5 minute spots of me telling people to end the Iraq war and the Taft Hartley Act.
Running candidates is very much worth it. Occupy elections!
On a smaller scale I wrote myself in for a local election monitoring office... and won 1-0. Now I get paid twice/year to go yell at local corrupt Democrats and make them run a clean election.
For recent information on the Green presidential candidates' positions on big issues and campaign plans, see their responses to the Green Party's questionnaires for candidates seeking the party's 2012 nomination:
• Roseanne Barr http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/documents/rfp_gpus_questionnaire_1_23_12.pdf
• Jill Stein http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/2012/candidate-questionnaire/stein.shtml
• Kent Mesplay http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/2012/candidate-questionnaire/mesplay.shtml (Many Greens hope that Kent can still qualify as a candidate soon)
For more information about the Green Party and the 2012 Green presidential nomination, visit http://www.gp.org
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator
Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
Kudos to the Green Party.
But by choosing to operate within the system, you have become PART of the system. And it will ask for, demand, compromise and co-optation for your continued participation.
Just something to bear in mind...
Galen, you have a weird way of dealing with solutions but still, appreciate your watch-out advise.
It was Pat LaMarche while running for GP VP said, "I might not vote for myself." LaMarche was a proponent of the "Safe State Strategy," which encouraged an active campaign only in states where republicans were clearly ahead. This tactical stupidity and a rigged GP convention in 2004 was a power grab by a handful of Greens, such as LeMarch, Medea Benjamin, David Cobb, and Dr. Jill Stein's campaign manager, Ben Manski. Is there Zionist machinations in the American GP?
The majority of GP members favored Nader back in 2004. But a cabal of mainly Jewish members were troubled by Nader proclaiming, "Congress and Bush are Zionist puppets." Truth hurts!
Jeffery St. Clair commenting on the 2004 GP convention wrote, "...was a sordid and crooked affair that sullied the democratic values the party purports to represent."
What would a Green Party President do in this political environment? We need Greens in Congress, City Councils, Planning Commissions, School Boards etc... We need to start with the grass roots and build. What is this obsession with the Presidency?
it's not either or
Roseanne Barr is a spoiled celebrity, and clearly unhinged. Watch the Youtube video of her on her soapbox in Washington DC.
She threatens violence against all men. She's wildly heterosexist and ignorant of even basic issues of economics, enviornment and civil rights.
If this is the Green Party, then we're fucked.
I move we change the Green Party's name to the Fun Party and change its 10 key values to just one:
For all to have as much fun as possible without hurting anyone or our home planet and its life in any way, as decided by consensus.
The right has Rush Limbaugh
The Left has Stephen Colbert
Now the Greens have Rosanne Barr
Is this a great country or what?!!
unfortunately the Green party is self cooked in Amerikkkka!
By handing Bush the pre- arranged transfer of power in 2000, the green party lost ALL credibility with progressives.
They had ample opportunity to prevent the Florida debacle.
Nader was offered a deal to secure Florida votes by Gore. Nader and the greeens declined.
Way to go.
We ended up w/ this scenario :Is a shit sandwich better than a shit burrito?
Pedantics! A medical degree isn't a graduate degree, but a professional one. But more to the point people don't unless I'm mistaken become candidates for prime minister in Israel. I may be mistaken. Maybe it's a case that the prime minister is selected in a contest which is a free for all with all political parties putting up candidates. Historially in all parliamentary systems, the party or coaliton of parties winning the general or federal election would get the prime minister's office along with all the rest except for the courts. Roseanne Barr hasn't got any chance of become prime minister in Israel. Nor is it at all likely she could win the presidency. It might well be that the Greens would actually harm themselves by choosing her as their candidate. She has never been in politics. The Greens tend to want someone who actually has shown a strong role of advocating their ideas. The major parties would be the ones where Barr, if she had a billion dollars might have a shot. They don't care about ideas, but just want the power.
Nader bashing again! Give it a rest. Al Gore threw away that election with his lack of any real stand for the progressive agenda, with his choice of running mate, and right on through. He beat himself. Same with Jimmy Carter in 1980. Don't hand the election to the opponent, then whine about Nader or Edward Kennedy. Carter beat himself. I hate it. But that's what happened. He was just unreal. He reved up the Cold War with no reason when that was just what would help the Gipper. What the hell! An eight grade kid in Watts could have run a better campaign. I could have. I've done for others. Hey I've done with some people and some issue campaigns. When we won, we didn't have somebody handed away the victory. It takes going on the offense from the start. Carter was on the defensive from the start of his campaign. He made too damn much out of that Afghan BS, backed the Shah way too long, then let his state department put out that scare about Moscow having combat brigade in Cuba as if it were the new "Cuban missile crisis." What was he thinking when he did that? Then Carter doesn't put any blame on Eugene McCarthy here in Minnesota who actually backed the Gipper. How's that for being full of it? Ted Kennedy backed Carter in the election, and nobody doubted that. Carter can be a real whine at times. He has done much good, but he needs to realize a political campaign is really a street fight in this country. If it takes put a two by four up the opponent's booty especially if like the Gipper he's dissing you as the president and he was. I can't picture any other president putting up with that out of that died haired bitch the Gipper.
As if all the Gore-bashing on this site weren't enough, now Jimmy Carter gets his share with some revisionist claptrap (and twice, in case it didn't sink in right away)! AD writes almost as much BS as a Republican campaign manager, such as Carter "reved [sic] up the Cold War" and "was on the defensive from the start." Among other things, Carter was criticised for being too soft on the Soviets, although that didn't stop him from sitting with Brezhnev and signing the SALT II treaty. Nor did it stop him from imposing the grain embargo after the USSR invaded Afghanistan. And the "whining" came from all those -- including the mainstream media -- who stood to make money from the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which Carter chose to boycott. Ted Kennedy, the real "whiner," childish and petulant right through the Democratic Convention, agreed with Reagan in blasting all of Carter's decisions.
True, Carter didn't have the GOP's gutter instincts when it came to campaigning. He was naive enough to think that people -- including so-called progressives -- would care about his ideas and achievements. But the man responsible for the first comprehensive energy and conservation plan, for including solar power in the White House energy supply, the Alaska Conservation Act, the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaty, and cancelling wasteful weapons systems (such as the B-1 bomber) certainly has my respect. And he didn't whine under the attacks on his courageous book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
So Roseanne wants to go into politics? Sounds about as unfunny as her sitcom. I hope her new career lasts longer than her talk show! But then, the only time Ralph Nader made me laugh was when he got that pie in the face.
It's "nice to bring up names" to get into one upsman or womanship to "prove" how "high on the pecking order' some are. Pardon me if I don't jump on this train wreck to disaster for the whole progressive agenda. For the information of all, I like Edward Kennedy, and unlke Eugene "can do nothing wrong" McCarthy, did actually back Jimjy Carter in 1980 in the election. Why did McCarthy give his peacenik's seal of approval to the Gipper, but then Carter had not one word of criticism of him?
I repeat Carter killed himself. He caused the mess in Afghanistan and actually provoked it under the influence of Zbigniew Brerzinski (spelling). He also backed the Shah to the point that the Iranian hostage crisis might happen, then allowed his state department to make Moscow's combat brigade in Cuba into another "Cuban missile crisis." Who would have even been silly enough to see that as good strategy. Then he never used the kind of tough campaign against the Gipper he used against Ted Kennedy. "Great move!" He didn't even tighten up on those at CIA headquarters actively campaigning for the GOP national ticket. What the hell! That's a no brainer for any kid.
I wanted him to win but he threw it away. He would easily have been a better president.
Also the US press has never been on the side of liberals or progressives. They helped create the "10 feet tall Russians" out of whole cloth from a less than reliable US intelligence after its independence had been purged by congress members and the press in the USA in 1946.
I voted for Gore in 2000 but not sure he would have been better than Clinton himself seeing what he's done. He didn't even run again in 2004 but I guess that means he was honest that he wasn't interested in helping. Carter wasn't too bad and sorry that he couldn't make it to second term. Tis' sad that even his own party obstructed him. About Ralph Nader and that pie incident, it's not funny seeing what the Democratic Party has become of itself.
Nader bashing again! Give it a rest. Al Gore threw away that election with his lack of any real stand for the progressive agenda, with his choice of running mate, and right on through. He beat himself. Same with Jimmy Carter in 1980. Don't hand the election to the opponent, then whine about Nader or Edward Kennedy. Carter beat himself. I hate it. But that's what happened. He was just unreal. He reved up the Cold War with no reason when that was just what would help the Gipper. What the hell! An eight grade kid in Watts could have run a better campaign. I could have. I've done for others. Hey I've done with some people and some issue campaigns. When we won, we didn't have somebody handed away the victory. It takes going on the offense from the start. Carter was on the defensive from the start of his campaign. He made too damn much out of that Afghan BS, backed the Shah way too long, then let his state department put out that scare about Moscow having combat brigade in Cuba as if it were the new "Cuban missile crisis." What was he thinking when he did that? Then Carter doesn't put any blame on Eugene McCarthy here in Minnesota who actually backed the Gipper. How's that for being full of it? Ted Kennedy backed Carter in the election, and nobody doubted that. Carter can be a real whine at times. He has done much good, but he needs to realize a political campaign is really a street fight in this country. If it takes put a two by four up the opponent's booty especially if like the Gipper he's dissing you as the president and he was. I can't picture any other president putting up with that out of that died haired bitch the Gipper.
What's wrong with all of you posters here!?
Why does no one acknowledge that no "third" party has a chance to be anything but a "spoiler", unless and until RUNOFF voting is established. (Please excuse me if you did mention anything about the system of voting).
Note that with IRV (Instant Runoff Voting) any number of parties can run, and voters will still make only one visit to a polling station. They merely have to rank all the candidates in order of preference on their ballots. A computer can then perform any number of runoff elections, with one candidate deleted from the list for each runoff. .
The final winner will then have a true majority, and not be a frontrunner with less than half the vote (thus rejected by the true majority).
"Many of the articles – like the one that appeared in the Christian Science Monitor – question Barr’s sincerity as she throws her hat into the ring."
As if the elite candidates are sincere? This only goes to show how way far out of touch with reality is Merkan mass media. It just goes to show how Merka today is Oceania, in Orwell's 1984. Up is down, down is up. So sad.
Vote Roseanne and help "shake em up", and of course reap all the impressive benefits of voting your very own principles - keeping your cells from mutating into gobbledy gook.
Taxpaying voters let’s own our politicians instead of Koch industries,medical insurance industry and Wal-Mart.
The 1% want to get we 99% under their thumbs because collectively we 99% are among the most powerful forces on
planet earth.
Politicians will only talk about term limits as they do about campaign finance reform. It is up to the people to take the matter in our own hands.
The job growth rhetoric attached to tax breaks/incentives is bogus through and through.
Finance reform can happen by way of citizens voting down the big spenders. It's not hard to tell who the big spenders are. Vote them down and out.
WE do not need congress. WE need to do it all on our own. It is time for taxpaying voters to own our politicians.
Again The 1% want to get we 99% under their thumbs because collectively we 99% are among the most powerful forces on
planet earth.
The idea that US voters need a 'Party" is based on the premise that there need to be leaders and followers. This implies that there is something wrong with individualistic thinking. What we really need is to eliminate the Party system altogether. It has corrupted the voting process. The Orange, Green, or Purple Party cannot deny history. The facts are what they are. Somehow labels tend to get in the way of facts. Voting should be based on the issues - not croneyism - which is basically what a political party is.
Croneyism and the party system have done a lot of damage in Vermont - even the elimination of free speech. The First Amendment is dead here. Candidates who are not dem/repubs are routinely arrested if they try to participate in debates.
No Party is necessary. I will continue to vote NADER, as I have for more than 30 years.
Thanks to Common Dreams for covering the Green Party. I hope that CD will try to give Greens equal coverage; as a party that takes no corporate money, it stands to reason that non-profit media would understand our struggle to be heard in public discourse.
The Green Party is an established national party with chapters in most states, ballot access in many, and hundreds of elected officeholders, past and present, who have brought the ideals of CD readers into the halls of power. On top of that, Greens have been tirelessly working on issues behind the scenes - they have been driving forces behind same-sex marriage, instant runoff voting, the move to ban corporate personhood, anti-fracking campaigns, the 2004 Ohio recount, and the Occupy movement, to name a few.
If we had instant runoff voting for single-winner elections and proportional representation for legislatures, as they do in many more functional democratic republics around the world, there would be no "spoiler effect" and the Green Party would be America's third major party. However, the corporate-sponsored Democrats and Republicans have made it clear that they are more interested in stamping out democracy than expanding it, unless we force them to do so by not backing down and running to win as many votes as possible, which we intend to do.
Roseanne Barr is free to seek the Green Party presidential nomination, and the attention that she is bringing the party from the celebrity-obsessed media is welcome, but that doesn't mean that whatever Ms. Barr says is Green Party policy. To educate yourself about what the Green Party stands for, take a look at its platform:
http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/index.php
At the Ohio Green Party convention, the first state party event in the process of choosing the eventual Green nominee, Dr. Jill Stein took 90% of the vote. To learn more about Stein and her vision of a Green New Deal for America, check out http://www.jillstein.org/
Green is grassroots democracy, nonviolence, social justice, and ecology. Join us!
Well said, greenferret!