Green Party Debate 2008 and the Nader Factor – Third Party Watch
Fish Out of Water: Go green – The Stanford Daily
Here is an archived list of coverage of the event, compiled by the Green Party of Alameda County
which hosted the Debate:
DEMOCRACY NOW’s headlines from Monday morning:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/14/headlines#14
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Want to see what the mainstream press had to say?
Here is a surpisingly good clip from SF FOX affiliate KTVU’s 10 pm news last night:
http://www.ktvu.com/video/15040480/index.html
Here is the SF Chronicle’s standard mainstream approach to the Greens:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNMOUEQ25.DTL
(re: this story, Dana Silvernale comments: “What the press does not understand is that Green Party positions and policies are grounded in our Ten Key Values. We are united in our goals. The debate is not about the issues, it is about who can most effectively carry them out.”)
Here is a hipper take from the Fog City Journal:
http://www.fogcityjournal.com/news_in_brief/es_crackberry_chronicles_080114.shtml
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FIRST 8 MIN SEGMENT – WELCOMING REMARKS
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FoQUbCQ_zxA
NEXT 25 MIN DEBATE SEGMENT – CANDIDATE OPENING STATEMENTS:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NNGtJ_0vTgk
PRESS QUESTION: IMMIGRATION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z77RQ9IUdmg
PRESS QUESTION: TAX POLICY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clA7jjUQpHc
PRESS QUESTION: THE “SPOILER” QUESTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3hOiDDUZe8
PRESS QUESTION: IRAQ OCCUPATION AND WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XrHPuGFLj0
PRESS QUESTION: PEAK OIL, FIRST ACT IN OFFICE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6j_M8DzDDk
GREEN ELECTED OFFICIALS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTXkMi6YOjw
AUDIENCE QUESTION: TERRORISM, BILL OF RIGHTS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6o_IuvWOJ8
AUDIENCE QUESTION: EDUCATION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVitUhPzo4
AUDIENCE QUESTION: ISRAEL/PALESTINE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZxcYWsp2gM
AUDIENCE QUESTION: THE FARM BILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUYsCIhQ9CA
AUDIENCE QUESTION: UNITING THE PROGRESSIVES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjS74WnkBek
CANDIDATE CLOSING STATEMENTS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bGP1uzi6cg
CANADIAN GREENS/ GLOBAL GREENS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1TBzu9Sxa8
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 
McKinney “won”, but I didn’t think it was for what she said as much as for how she said it. I thought she spent more energy asking us to look back on what she did in Congress than what she might do going forward.
Similarly, I heard “Head Rock” coming out of Ball’s mouth in every other sentence, and, um, who cares.
Too bad we couldn’t combine Mesplay’s ideas with Johnson’s showmanship.
I quoted Swift as saying: “When you speak the truth to people, they will come, and they will vote,” which seems less self-serving than “If you speak the truth, people will vote” (above). I hope I got the quote right.