A story I should have heard about

I decided to do a little research on political parties today, official stances and such. Mostly it was a response to frustration with both parties at the moment (nearly the same sentiment echoed by Bill Maher last week. So I found myself on the homepage for the green party, where they had a story about a ship full of 20 aid workers that are being held at bay by the Israeli military. Among the crew are green party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and nobel laureate Mairead Maguire. According to the article, the boat was out to deliver humanitarian aid to the wartorn Gaza strip when they were detained by the military, despite staying in international waters. How do stories like this go largely unreported? 

The article left me wondering something else though: why is the green party so politically irrelevant that a presidential candidate being detained doesn't make news? Imagine if it was Sarah Palin on that boat! She challenges Obama to a footrace and makes news. Unfortunately, the last thing most Americans heard about the green party was that they cost the democrats the 2004 election. This is really too bad. The democratic party, contrary to what Foxnews or many repubublican reps may say, is not terribly liberal right now, and it is certainly not socialist, at least no more than public education or social security, or medicare is socialist. There is really no option to go left of Obama right now something the green party could actually provide. More on this later...