I saw this before the debate even started. Kinda surprised it took this long to see a BB piece, you must be pretty damn busy..

Unfair, unAmerican, unDemocratic.

In the past the Green Party has struck me as too genteel. That can't be said of Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala who have put themselves on the line for the proletariat and have gotten arrested twice, the last time for Fannie Mae's broken promises on mortgage foreclosure.

You have to have a moral compass to grow a pair. Someone needs to point out North to Obama. Romney couldn't find the North Star if you placed his little dipper in his hand.

WingnutSteve @ 1 said:

I saw this before the debate even started. Kinda surprised it took this long to see a BB piece, you must be pretty damn busy..

Actually, kinda sick here still, as mentioned in the article. That said... What? You knew even before the debate that the Green Party candidates would be shackled to chairs for 8 hours during and after it? That's very impressive!

Wish you would have let me know, as I coulda had quite a scoop here!

Brad...don't pull an Amy Goodman on us...WingnutSteve didn't say anything about 8 hrs of chairbound....luv ya, dude.....

I didn't know she was shackled to a chair but I read a news piece saying her and her running mate were arrested for disrupting traffic because they wouldn't let her in the debate. Before you attack my comment I absolutely feel she should have been allowed to be there. I put no condition on that comment, I only know what I read so if she was really blocking traffic I'm not sure, fox news did not tell me to say that.....

Love this guy Lee Camp!!! This is a version of the kinda thing I was working on before I embarked on my full time Mom Squad duties. Hope I can get back to it and start putting up my two cents.

Thanks, Brad. Hope you're feeling better soon.

She would have completely destroyed both of them in a debate.

I think everyone in the world, with the possible exception of a large percentage of American citizens, knows that US democracy is a farce.

"CHERI HONKALA: It shouldn’t just be whether or not you have billions of dollars that determine whether or not the American people can hear about your platform.

DR. JILL STEIN: Our Green campaign is on the ballot for 85 percent of voters. Eighty-five percent of voters deserve to know who their choices are in this election and what the real solutions are that can solve the desperate problems that we’re facing..."

I don't condone what happened to them and believe they should have been included in debates, but I do have to say that the REAL problem for these candidates is contained in their words above. These candidates and their supporters have had 4 years (!) to organize and develop basic capacity by engaging with their communities, door to door and on the phone. They don't need billions of dollars to do that, and yes, voters do deserve to know who their choices are in any election...so where have their campaigns been the past 4 years? Why haven't I received a knock on the door or a phone call? This doesn't require lots of money, just some determined organization by a few core supporters in each community--even just a few core supporters at the county level--across the country. Instead, alternative parties and candidates have been doing the same ineffective things for decades with the same ineffective results. They have to start accepting some of the blame instead of projecting all of it onto the 2 dominant parties. Learn how to organize and build capacity.