and strom thurmond became apoplectic, and he said-- literally, i thought he was shaking. he said, "ah, the first amendment "is an excuse for people to do things they shouldn't be doing." hmm. and from--i was very, very concerned that i was just going to antagonize other people who were so far right as strom thurmond if i started to talk again about first amendment or freedom of expression, so i couched it in other terms. and do you think that's because they don't believe in the first amendment or believe that you're just using the first amendment as a cover for dastardly speech and art? i don't know the answer to that. i think only strom thurmond and the other conservatives who thought that way know the answer to that. i do believe that in my four years that congress was trying to take more power away from the constitution and the judicial branch and the executive branch of government. but those checks and balances that we have in our system and the fight of the legislative branch to constantly try to wrest more power from the other two has been ongoing in our history. an

harry truman, thomas dooley and on the far right strom thurmond and on the left you had wallace. if the republican apparatus gets there guys somehow through and it is not the tea party guide is possible the tea party will split off and run their own purse in which the democrats would love to see for the vote but the democrats don't understand there is an equal chance someone on the left thinks that they can't take it anymore. this is not what we voted for and someone from the left may run as an independent candidate. it could happen this time. so you will have four people running which means someone could win with 38% of the vote if the vote is split. we need a preferential voting system. many cities and counties have it where you vote your first choice, second choice or have a run off system. [inaudible] >> we need to go back to the voting system least have which canada has whether the number 2 pencil and a piece of paper. [applause] the canadians have thirty-five million citizens. they have all the votes counted in a few hours. it is the largest land mass on earth next to russi