Obligatory Gathering of the Moonbats in SF Post
tip o’ the tinfoil
Withdraw from Iraq immediately. Eliminate the No Child Left Behind law. Legalize marijuana. ...800 people of varying ages, economic backgrounds and political parties attended the “Presidential Debate that Matters” ... where the five Green presidential hopefuls spent more time agreeing with one another than actually debating.
“We’re not so much against each other as we are for each other,” ...Nearly every answer was greeted with nods of agreement from the other candidates waiting their turns and by roars of applause from the audience, giving the forum a pep rally feeling.
The nearly three-hour event was co-moderated by “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan and [some raadio twit]...
[other] candidates included Jared Ball, a hip-hop scholar and assistant professor of communications at Morgan State University…
Bay Area elected officials who are Green Party members… also took the lecturn, urging the crowd to see the Green Party as the most progressive political option and not as a wasted vote.
“Please. This is serious. This is not a joke. This is about starting a real movement in this country,” said candidate Cynthia McKinney to a standing ovation.
sez U.
[txGA. we O U]
Exit *snerk*
HuffPo: Whatever. The point is, this tactic of throwing dreadlocked fruitloops into a totally quixotic national campaign is the worst of both worlds. It only serves to further delegitimize those issues that have a potential constituency outside the choir. Enthusiasm is no substitute for a realistic communications and power-building strategy.
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