{"id":9956,"date":"2012-05-15T09:27:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2012-05-15T09:27:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:27:24","slug":"presidential-primary-debate-you-might-have-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/05\/15\/presidential-primary-debate-you-might-have-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Primary Debate you might have missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, here’s a Presidential Debate you may have missed<\/a>…<\/p>\n

KALW\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rose Aguilar moderated a presidential debate held Saturday at the Victoria Theatre between Green Party presidential candidates Dr. Jill Stein and actress\/comedienne Roseanne Barr. The world described by Stein and Barr bears little resemblance to that described by incumbent President Barack Obama and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, okay, and…<\/p>\n

The Greens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 top two candidates have very different speaking styles. Barr claims to have bigger balls than anybody, presumably including Stein, but, as moderator Aguilar said, she searched the Web for disagreements between the two and found none. Greens have a reputation for non-productive internal conflict, but Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sanity and sisterhood fest and its wildly enthusiastic audience suggest 2012 may signal a newly unified party<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 Roseanne Barr is considered one of the “Top two candidates” for the Green Party?\u00c2\u00a0 Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 What?\u00c2\u00a0 Huh?\u00c2\u00a0 Wh–?<\/p>\n

That would leave any sane left \/ liberal protest vote over to Rocky Anderson… I guess<\/a>?<\/p>\n

It is in this vein that I approached this presidential campaign cycle. Given my experiences with the Green Party, I saw that vehicle as, well quite broken, unworkable and ineffective. However, as time went by and it appeared that no-one else appeared willing to step up, I was almost desperate enough to join up with the Green Party and whomever they choose. Or perhaps one of the Socialist candidates. But I seen no-one who could effectively organize to break past the primary barrier of the two party system.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then Rocky Anderson announced and I was overjoyed. I looked closer at him, as a candidate and the more I looked, the more I became convinced that this could work. Sure,\u00c2\u00a0 Rocky is not perfect but he seemed solid and trustworthy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Who.\u00c2\u00a0 You know…. Might be the Americans Elect candidate too… if he can somehow amass the 5 times the vote tally of Roemer’s total required of him to overtake Roemer, and the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down from lack of interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The comment I despise here:
\nBarack Obama is not my president. Rocky Anderson is<\/em>.
\nYeah.\u00c2\u00a0 Jed Bartlet is my President, and all that.\u00c2\u00a0 I am still waiting for someone to shout out “Roseanne Bar is My President”.
\n… Though, truth be told.\u00c2\u00a0 All evidence suggests that Jill Stein is the Green Party nominee<\/a>, and you can kind of just consider Ms. Barr along the lines of, or, the floating Presidential Republican front-runner debris that everyone knew would eventually lose to Romney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, here’s a Presidential Debate you may have missed… KALW\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rose Aguilar moderated a presidential debate held Saturday at the Victoria Theatre between Green Party presidential candidates Dr. Jill Stein and actress\/comedienne Roseanne Barr. The world described by Stein and Barr bears little resemblance to that described by incumbent President Barack Obama and Republican presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9957,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}