September 25, 2008
Via the AJC, Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney, Libertarian nominee Bob Barr, and self-nominated Independent candidate (and parrot lover) Ralph Nader have all graciously offered their services for tomorrow night, should John McCain fail to appear at the scheduled debate.
sweet, someone should invite chuck baldwin!
the real question is whether or not mccain will follow in the footsteps of the current GOP regime and stick to his guns despite being totally and utterly wrong. I'm all for an hour and a half of Obama, myself :)
Can we get all of these individuals to participate in this debate?
That would be great, it would better serve the nation to include more varied voices.
If McCain is suspending his campaign for the time being, why are his ads still being shown in Florida?
Senator McCain may call off his campaigning, that does not stop the election from going forward.
If he is suspending his campaign, then he should be barred from this event and the third party candidates should participate.
While McCain-Palin is not in charge of the election process, thay may stop campaigning at any time.
What if there is no agreement pripor to the election? Will he call that off too, or refuse to have his name on the ballots?
You could always program a robot to read off the one-liner-non-answers. Oh wait, that's Palin's job.
Nader is not "self-nominated." He was nominated by all those who worked hard to gather the petitions necessary to get him on the ballot in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Enough stupid snide comments about Nader, please.
Thank you Bob! Lets have respectful coverage of all the candidates who will be on our ballots in November. Daily we're given highlights of the two major party candidates' activities. How about a few stories about the campaigns and supporters of others? Maybe we could investigate why some people work for and vote for someone even though they are largely ignored.
I'd love to hear what these candidates have to say. If John wants to keep the 'country first' , fine. This is a chance to introduce some real change with a multiple party political system like Europe, where compromise and coalition is the way of governance.
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