McKinney was treated like a piece of s**t by the Democratic leadership and by most of the Congressional Black Caucus. It took her a while to get there, but I think she's made a sharp break with the Democrats. In her acceptance speech she spoke of building a "movement" with the Green Party being at the center of this effort, but embracing other forces as well.

The Green Party appears eager to get the numbers that will guarantee it ballot access in many states, and this means pushing its candidates and not caving to any "safe state" stragegy. Time will tell.

A platform of compromise backed by the party's Old Guard was defeated, with the reportedly more progressive 2004 document reaffirmed.

Nader continues to define himself as an elitist, above party and movement. Hopefully, his time has come and gone.

Cynthia McKinney is a credible candidate due to program and status as a firm breaker from the Democrats. As one who belives there can be no electoral solution to the crisis of capitalism, I see McKinney's Green Party campaign as a part of movement building that can point to the solution: revolutionary overturn.