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Audacity of Truth
Cynthia McKinney to run for Green party nomination for prez
Via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is on the political comeback trail again. This time, she’s running for president.
In a speech posted on her campaign Web site, runcynthiarun.org, McKinney, 52, ended weeks of speculation and officially announced her run as a Green Party candidate. She sounded the theme “Come Home To The Green Party” while attacking both major parties as supporters of the war in Iraq and tools of corporate interests.
“The Democrats, no different than their Republican counterpart, eat out of the hands of corrupt lobbyists and feed at the same corporate trough,” McKinney says in the video. “I am proud to say the Green Party is my new political home.”
In recent weeks, McKinney has traveled to campaign rallies and fund-raisers in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin trying to organize party support and get her name on state ballots. She said she plans to campaign in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Hugh Esco, who works on the McKinney campaign and runs her Web site, declined to comment Wednesday.
The firebrand six-time Democratic congresswoman from Georgia’s 4th congressional district was defeated in 2002, bounced back and won in 2004, and then was defeated by Hank Johnson in 2006. At least six Green Party candidates are running against her. The July nominating convention for the Green Party will be in Chicago.
McKinney is the only former major-party candidate running for president as a Green in 2008, but she is the second black woman from Georgia to declare her Green Party presidential candidacy.
Elaine Brown, 64, of Brunswick, , a former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party, is on the ballot in California. The party plans to stage a debate between Green Party presidential candidates in San Francisco Jan. 13.
Can’t wait to see the YouTube video snips from that one.
Think the Green Party will throw a wrench in next year’s presidential election for Democrats? Or will that honor be reserved for a possible anti-Iraq war Ron Paul third-party candidacy? Assuming he can make it beyond the white supremacist donation scandal, that is.
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Laffed my
off watching Krakk~pot McKinney’s speil on a link at HotAir.
Though I did miss her standard “Bug-eyed Crazy” routine.
Cynthia doesn’t do “Sanctimony” very well and wouldn’t last five minutes in a debate, no matter how well planted or padded.
I give her until MLK’s birthday before her “campaign” folds due to lack of interest and most of her proposed/desired constituents being solidly in Ron Paul’s camp.
Jack.
Hi, ST
Steve and forest hunter:
The YouTube/McKinney link is on grouchyoldcripple about 1/3 ways down.
http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/
Jack.
Now that was rich! Thanks Jack!
Hard to believe the words that actually come out of nimrods like her, as though thinking people had no sense……
It’s pretty obvious it aint about getting elected,
but at least she gon be ables ta feed dem fambly relates, wif dem matchin’ fedrull funs fer bout a year.
What a complete moron! Hope she gets on the ticket. The unelectable Shrillary will just love that.
Jack Deth,
McKinney is a TRANCER. GET HER!!!!! LOL!
Come home? Since few of us had ever considered the Green Party their home, this slogan is curious more than somewhat.
ST asketh:
No, I do not believe a Green Party ticket, especially one led by Ms. McKinney, will throw so much as a ball bearing into the Democratic chances, let along a wrench. She is, however, quite likely to pick up some of the votes of those who believe the Jews who worked at the WTC were told to stay home on 9-11 (as well as a few from those who feel they’ve been abducted by ET’s but returned to civilization thereafter). She’s very welcome to them.
Ron Paul will receive the votes of those who normally cast their votes for Ayn Rand. Or, to put it another way, the Internet is the Internet and the Real World Is the Real World–and never the twain shall meet.
I am thinking this will last only until she tries to run for Congress again. Seems to me that the Green party is the new home of desperate political refugees.
This is gonna be a fun election. – Lorica
She says join the Green Party if you believe in rebuilding New Orleans and fight the racism that leveled the city? Since when have hurricanes shown prejudice, other than towards those who live on the coast below sea level?
9, Tom, Katrina was sent by Bush and the racist GOP.
Yes, that’s right, PCD, but those morons Bush and Rove screwed it up so the hurricane also killed white people and wrecked their property as well. If they can’t steer the weather machine more precisely than that they’re better off not even trying. Cheney would have done a better job but I think he was personally dynamiting the levees.
Back in ‘96 in the Gulf we had a helo carrying eight SEALs crash while returning to USS Essex. The aircrewman and the SEALs made it out, but an observer, who was black, and the two pilots did not. One of the professional racial grievance mongers aboard made much of the fact that the black guy died and suggested that it was probably because he was given substandard safety equipment.
I said it was good that The Conspiracy nailed another brother, and only for the negligable cost of one helicopter and two pilots. What a bargain! He had the grace at least to look embarrassed, as though he realized the stupidity of what he was saying. I expect McKinney to go her entire life without experiencing such a revelation.
Great post, Steve!