Roseanne Barr to Run For President

Daily Intel, Thursday, February 2, 2012, 6:55am (PST)

By Brett Smiley

• Roseanne Barr announced Thursday that she's seeking the Green Party's presidential nomination. The actress-comedienne claims to be a longtime supporter of the party and has filed the requisite paperwork. Barr's candidacy appears at least more serious than the other celebrity politician, Donald Trump.

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  "The Democrats and Republicans have proven that they are servants — bought and paid for by the 1 percent — who are not doing what's in the best interest of the American people," Barr said.

  Roseanne knows a bit about the 1 percent: She's probably best known for her eponymous and very funny sitcom that ran from 1988 to 1997, in which she and John Goodman raised a working class family in Illinois. And she's probably least known for her role in a travesty of a film She Devil that somehow attracted Glenn Close as the lead.

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  "I will barnstorm American living rooms," Barr said in a candidate questionnaire. "Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election."

  Here's a jump start on the opposition research if she does get the Green Party's nod in July.