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Roseanne Barr places fifth in presidential election
The actress, who announced she was running back in August 2011, managed to best 21 other candidates for the highest office in the land.
Thu, Nov 08 2012 at 3:15 PM
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The rest of the world may have considered her run for the presidency to be just another prank, but Roseanne Barr managed to surprise everyone with a relatively strong performance in the general election for U.S. president. 
 
The 60-year-old, who declared her intention to run on "The Tonight Show" in August 2011, original sought the Green Party nomination in competition with eventual winner Jill Stein. When she lost, Barr became the nominee of the California-based Peace and Freedom Party. 
 
"I want to be part of the debates, because I want to represent the taxpayer," she told Leno in 2011. "In fact, I'm choosing the taxpayers as my vice president."
 
Eventually, Barr chose Cindy Sheehan, the famous anti-war activist, as her running mate. And guess what? Her ticket managed to come in fifth place with 48,000 votes — more than 15,000 votes than former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson of the Justice party received.
 
While Roseanne did congratulate President Barack Obama on his re-election, she wasn't above a bit of tongue-in-cheek gloating. 
 
"Obama, i finished number 4 behind U," she tweeted. "Feel me? i was 4rth & only on 3 ballots! It cost me less than 100k 2B 5th." According to reports, more than $4.2 billion was spent by both the Democratic and Republican parties for congressional and presidential races.. 
 
"I want to thank the volunteers who asked me for nothing — and who worked hard and did a great job," she later added. "We proved that the ballot is ours. My team was the most diverse team ever assembled in the USA. We came together 4 common purpose — jews muslims christians atheists agnostics."
 
Last year, Barr listed a number of changes she would like to see, such as universal health care, federal support for gay marriage, stem cell research, and more equity in the tax system. "My hope is that America can return to the brilliant middle of the road away from all of these ideologues & radical extremists on both sides!" she wrote.
 

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Dan Nov 11 2012 at 11:33 AM

Dear editor,

"more than 15,000 votes than former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson of the Justice party received." does not make any sense.

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C. T. Weber Nov 11 2012 at 4:31 AM

Actually, Roseanne Barr and Cindy Sheehan came in sixth and Rocky Anderson came in seventh.

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simnrdle Nov 10 2012 at 6:59 AM

It's only the effect of her persona and precedence which reach beyond the boundaries and helps her to get success.

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Starbuck Nov 10 2012 at 1:28 AM

Go Rosanne!! I love this.

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Marivel Guzman Nov 09 2012 at 3:36 PM
The money won again. Every 4 years the money win. Just common sense. The 2 party that rule US spend billions on advertisement. What's for? to promise! promise! promise! All promises still unfilled. Sit down and review all those promises since the 2 party line government started in the US. Nothing but promises. The majority of the US citizenry has gone from respectable middle class to, homeless, check to check middle class. Look around in your city, more homeless every day. More budget cuts to education,
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to health, to social programs. Really what the Presidents Do...engrossed the packets of Corporations, such War Complex Industry, Big Pharmaceuticals, Food industry and energy. And more money in law order. Why they do that. More money in law order, because the people is tired, more violence is seen, more protests around the US. Whats it is great about America any more? We spend the money in senseless wars. All the peoples of the world are in the same situation that us, some countries more visible the crisis than others, but every one is unhappy. But the US is parading our war ships, planes, drones, submarines around the world, and giving money aid in form of Military aid to other countries.. Why?.....We need every penny. Our children and elderly need every penny home. Democrats and Republican are just the same block of thieves. One cheer the others one, One block the other one, while the country suffers downfall..
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Jose Pedro Naisser. Nov 08 2012 at 4:20 PM

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Brandt Hardin Nov 08 2012 at 3:53 PM
Despite all odds, our President prevailed. He still has an uphill battle fighting a Red House which has blocked his every move in an attempt to squash his goals of bringing the Middle Class equal pay, women’s rights, gay rights and affordable healthcare. The Bush Administration drove our economy into a swift nose dive and Obama is still the patsy. Watch conservative hands paint him in Blackface with a visual commentary of how Barack has been bamboozled at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/10/
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Ronald.Lindeboom Nov 08 2012 at 5:47 PM
Oh please Brandt, put down your glass of blue Kool-Aid. The two-party hosing of our once great Republic has been going on for a lot longer than your lifetime and both Democrats and Republicans have been purposely and directly blocking each others way as long as there have been two parties to destroy this nation -- and they have done a great job of destroying it. It took BOTH parties to get this country as screwed up as it is. Reagan sold out our protections and deregulated things that time has proven
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should not have been deregulated. Reagan also championed NAFTA -- but Clinton expanded and grew NAFTA into the monster that has eroded many American companies and helped erode our economy. Clinton also gave China Most-Favored Nation status -- which is something reserved for small third-world countries, giving them a chance to compete in the world market with extremely favorable import terms. You do not give huge world powers like China Most-Favored Nation status -- unless you want to undermine America (because that will indeed be the outcome, just as we have seen). Bush buried us in debt and made us one of the most hated countries on Earth, if not the most hated. But Obama has been less than forthcoming about his own "sins" and has sided with Wall Street and corporations -- leaving the Middle Class with the bill for the 2008 meltdown, while neither investigating nor jailing a single person involved in the largest scam in business history. Instead, he passed the bill to the taxpayers when the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) had the audit trail to know who had the money, where they got it and when they got it. He also has as the FDA's Food Czar, the former attorney and VP of Monsanto -- which is like having our food supply in the hands of a man whose company has a stated goal of eliminating all natural seeds from the planet while they sell their patented seeds and the chemicals to make them work all around the globe. I could go on and on but I won't. Please do NOT tout a new savior. The evidence does NOT bear it out. We need a new political system. The Two-Party System is a complete failure.
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wallyg420 Nov 10 2012 at 9:58 AM

Ronald I agree 100% with what you have said, and yes the system has become corrupt. But how can we stop something that now has so much power. Neither side wants to give up anything.

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