Green Party holds presidential debate in San Francisco [View All]

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"We're not so much against each other as we are for each other," said one of the candidates, Kent Mesplay, an environmental engineer who also ran for the Green Party nomination in 2004. "We have to be because by no means is (the two-party system) a level playing field."

The nearly three-hour event was co-moderated by "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan and KPFA radio host Aimee Allison, who allowed the candidates timed answers to questions about the war in Iraq, illegal immigration, the farm bill and health care, among other subjects.

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.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNMOUEQ25.DTL

To me this is just hilarious. These people all talk about how stifling it is to have two major political parties, and present themselves as something different, yet they are all afraid to disagree with each other in the interest of keeping their own party together. I thought you guys were the sincere ones who are outside of the system! And so their "debate" isn't really a debate, because their candidacies are not really candidacies, and the whole charade is a joke.