<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Bipartisanship; When all elected and appointed officials regardless of political party <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>affiliation</SPAN></SPAN> work together to screw over the American People. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV>Paul Rumelhart stated:</DIV>
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<DIV>"Who said they couldn't act in a bipartisan manner?"</DIV>
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<DIV>Well, Mr. Rumelhart . . .</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">"Those lobbyists hoping to gain,</SPAN></DIV><SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">
<DIV>No matter who wins the campaign,</DIV></SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">
<DIV>Are equivocal smarties</DIV></SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">
<DIV>Who give to both parties:</DIV></SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">
<DIV>"Buy partisans!"—that's their refrain."</DIV>
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<DIV>And here is the <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>GOP's</SPAN> concept of "bipartisanship" . . .</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN> at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</DIV>
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<DIV>"Moscow Cares"</DIV>
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<DIV>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</DIV>
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<DIV>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>On Oct 25, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Paul Rumelhart <<A href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Well, he may have talked about it, but in the end he agrees completely with Obama on the subject. This is why it's not brought up as a national issue, why bring it up if nobody disagrees? Never mind the people that are against it, they don't get a choice (unless they want to "throw away their vote"). This is true for almost every other item on Ted's list.<BR><BR>The <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>Ds</SPAN> and Rs have locked up the debates, which has the effect of silencing all those who disagree on these issues. Who said they couldn't act in a bipartisan manner?<BR><BR>Paul<BR>
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Vision 2020 <<A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A>> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, October 25, 2012 2:14 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] LA Times: :Third-party debate showcases fresh faces and issues"<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<DIV>During the last presidential debate, Romney stated unequivocally that he supports <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>Obama's</SPAN> use of drones.<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN> at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</DIV>
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<DIV>"Moscow Cares"</DIV>
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<DIV>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</DIV>
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<DIV>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>On Oct 25, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Paul Rumelhart <<A href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: #000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We disagree on a lot of things, but we agree completely on this topic.<BR><BR>Paul<BR>
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<H1><FONT>Issues addressed in this debate that were not emphasized in the <SPAN id=misspell-15 class=mark>Demopublican</SPAN>/<SPAN id=misspell-16 class=mark>Republicrat</SPAN> debate include legality or wisdom of drone killing, the massive US military budget continuing while domestic needs suffer, <SPAN id=misspell-17 class=mark>NDAA</SPAN> tyranny, the damaging war on drugs and the massive US incarceration rate, anthropogenic climate change, and corporate cash influencing elections. Comparing this debate to the Obama/Romney debate charade, that was sometimes like a <SPAN id=misspell-18 class=mark>mano</SPAN> a <SPAN id=misspell-19 class=mark>mano</SPAN> testosterone verbal battle, rather than a mature discussion of critical issues by two adults, made me wonder why I bothered to even watch those debates.</FONT></H1>
<DIV><B>This debate was shown again on C-Span, and appears to be available in full on the C-Span website here:</B></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Listening to this debate offered hope for our democracy, likely a vain hope given the odds against any of these alternative candidates or anyone like them being elected president.</B></DIV>
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<H1>Third-party debate showcases fresh faces and issues</H1>
<DIV><SPAN class=yiv293914807byline>By James <SPAN id=misspell-20 class=mark>Rainey</SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=yiv293914807date><SPAN class=yiv293914807dateString>October 23, 2012</SPAN><SPAN class=yiv293914807dateTimeSeparator>, </SPAN><SPAN class=yiv293914807timeString>9:55 p.m</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=yiv293914807date>Four alternative candidates for president of the United States debated Tuesday night in Chicago and agreed America needs a good dose of what they could provide -- clear, straight talk that has not been market-pasteurized.</DIV>
<DIV class=yiv293914807date>The third-party debate, sponsored by the nonprofit Free and Equal Elections Foundation and streamed <SPAN id=misspell-21 class=mark>online</SPAN> with host <A id=yiv293914807PECLB0000005449 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="Larry King" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/television/larry-king-PECLB0000005449.topic" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Larry King</A>, offered up a heaping serving of candidates few voters have seen and issues <A id=yiv293914807PEPLT007408 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="Barack Obama" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/barack-obama-PEPLT007408.topic" rel=nofollow target=_blank>President Obama</A> and <A id=yiv293914807PEPLT007376 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="Mitt Romney" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/mitt-romney-PEPLT007376.topic" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Mitt Romney</A> have seldom raised -- including drug
legalization, climate change and indefinite holds on citizens suspected of terrorism.<BR><BR><A id=yiv293914807PECLB002602 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="Gary Johnson" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/gary-johnson-PECLB002602.topic" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Gary Johnson</A> of the <A id=yiv293914807ORGOV000277 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="Libertarian Party" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/parties-movements/libertarian-party-ORGOV000277.topic" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Libertarian Party</A>, <A id=yiv293914807PEPLT0008913 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="Jill Stein" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/jill-stein-PEPLT0008913.topic" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Jill Stein</A> of the Green Party, <A id=yiv293914807PEPLT00008705 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="Rocky Anderson " href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/rocky-anderson--PEPLT00008705.topic"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>Rocky Anderson</A> of the Justice Party and Virgil <SPAN id=misspell-22 class=mark>Goode</SPAN> of the Constitution Party may not win huge votes Nov. 6, but they rocked a Chicago hotel ballroom and the social media landscape, which buzzed with commentary about their conversation.</DIV>
<DIV class=yiv293914807date>“You’re all Don <SPAN id=misspell-23 class=mark>Quixotes</SPAN> in a way,” King, the former CNN host, said at the end of the 90-minute session, “but the windmills have a way of stopping and we have a way of saluting you just for getting into the fray.”<BR><BR>The encounter had a quirky charm, featuring opening statements hastily inserted after the candidates had already answered their first question (supplied via social media). It also featured the affable King, an eminence in this setting, who put up with none of the filibustering that the two big-party candidates foisted on the moderators of the major televised debates. <BR><BR>The four candidates were united on several issues -- their disdain for the influence of money in politics, their opposition to massive defense spending and foreign wars, and their determination to cut executive power that allows the indefinite detention of Americans in the war on
terror.<BR><BR>Johnson, the Libertarian former governor of New Mexico, said corporate money had gotten so bad in politics that candidates should be required to wear <A id=yiv293914807 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title=NASCAR href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/auto-racing/nascar-15039007.topic" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN id=misspell-24 class=mark>NASCAR</SPAN></A>-style jackets to show all their corporate sponsors.<BR><BR>On defense, the liberal Stein said she would ban all drone strikes and Johnson said he would cut defense spending by 43% (to 2003 levels). The conservative <SPAN id=misspell-25 class=mark>Goode</SPAN>, a former congressman from Virginia who has the rough-boned look of a Civil War officer, concurred, saying: “The United States should stop trying to be the overseer of the world. That would save us billions and billions of dollars.”</DIV>
<DIV class=yiv293914807date>Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City and an outspoken liberal, called the <A id=yiv293914807EVGAP00024 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="National Defense Authorization Act" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/unrest-conflicts-war/defense/national-defense-authorization-act-EVGAP00024.topic" rel=nofollow target=_blank>National Defense Authorization Act</A> that allows detention of citizens “the very definition of tyranny.” No one on stage disagreed. The act has been supported by both <A id=yiv293914807ORGOV0000005 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="Democratic Party" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/parties-movements/democratic-party-ORGOV0000005.topic" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Democrats</A> and <A id=yiv293914807ORGOV0000004 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="Republican Party" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/parties-movements/republican-party-ORGOV0000004.topic" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>Republicans</A> in Congress.<BR><BR>The “<SPAN id=misspell-26 class=mark>transpartisan</SPAN>” debate was not all a love-in, though. Johnson said he would get rid of federal college loans, which he said had contributed to the artificially high price of education. The Green Party’s Stein said she favored free college for all modeled on the post-<A id=yiv293914807EVHST00000110 class=yiv293914807taxInlineTagLink title="World War II (1939-1945)" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/unrest-conflicts-war/wars-interventions/world-war-ii-%281939-1945%29-EVHST00000110.topic" rel=nofollow target=_blank>World War II</A> GI Bill. Rebutted Johnson: “Free comes with a cost. Free is spending more money than you take in…. Free has gotten us to the point we are going to experience a monetary collapse in this country.”<BR><BR><SPAN id=misspell-27 class=mark>Goode</SPAN> had some of the most dramatic prescriptions. He said he would instantly
balance the federal budget with massive cuts and not tax increases. He said he would block all green card admissions of immigrants to the U.S. until the unemployment rate dropped below 5%. “We need jobs in America for U.S. citizens first,” <SPAN id=misspell-28 class=mark>Goode</SPAN> said, acknowledging that many in the crowd would not like what he had to say.<BR><BR>Everyone but <SPAN id=misspell-29 class=mark>Goode</SPAN> agreed that the U.S. should legalize marijuana. The three -- Stein, Johnson and Anderson -- said the criminalization of the drug had led to massive imprisonment rates that far outstrip the rest of the world's, and huge costs that cannot be sustained. The three also bemoaned the total lack of attention to climate change in the main presidential contest. Anderson called it "a greater long-term risk to the United States than terrorism."<BR><BR>In the last of six questions, the four were asked what one amendment they would like to
make to the U.S. Constitution. The two small-government candidates -- Johnson and <SPAN id=misspell-30 class=mark>Goode</SPAN> -- said they would impose term limits on Congress, assessing that the change would get lawmakers to focus more on policy and less on reelection. Stein advocated a change to limit spending by corporations in elections. Anderson said he had “already written” an amendment that -- like the scuttled Equal Rights Amendment -- would give equal protection under the law to women, and also to people regardless of their sexual orientation.</DIV>
<DIV class=yiv293914807date>Campaign professionals have said that a vote for one of the four would be wasted because it would only take away from one of the sure winners, Obama or Romney. But Johnson disputed that notion in his closing statement.<BR><BR>“Wasting your vote is voting for somebody you don’t believe in,” Johnson said. “I am asking everyone watching this nationwide to waste your vote on me … and then I’m the next president of the United States.”</DIV>
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