McKinney running for president as Green candidate

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McKinney running for president as Green candidate
Topic Started: Jul 14 2008, 09:20 AM (430 Views)
mynameis	Jul 14 2008, 09:20 AM Post #1
Internet Jujitsu Posts: 1,567 Group: Members Member #50 Joined: 01/15/08	(CNN) -- The liberal environmentalist Green Party nominated former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney as its presidential candidate Saturday. Cynthia McKinney represented a suburban Atlanta, Georgia, district for six terms as a Democrat. Cynthia McKinney represented a suburban Atlanta, Georgia, district for six terms as a Democrat. McKinney, 53, held off three rivals to win the party's nomination during its convention in Chicago, Illinois. She picked journalist and activist Rosa Clemente as her running mate. Green Party spokeswoman Scott McLarty acknowledged McKinney was a "long shot" for the White House, but said, "Every vote that she gets helps the Green Party." "The United States needs an alternative party," McLarty said. "The narrow two-party system we have right now has not served us very well." McKinney represented a suburban district of Atlanta, Georgia, as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms -- five consecutively. First elected in 1992, she lost a primary challenge in 2002 after suggesting in a radio interview that members of the Bush administration stood to profit from the war that followed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. In 2004 she ran again and won with a low-key campaign in which she largely avoided controversy. But voters ousted her again in 2006 after she was accused of a physical altercation with a U.S. Capitol Police officer who questioned her after failing to recognize her at a security checkpoint. Don't Miss * Election Center 2008 The most successful Green Party presidential candidate was consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who drew nearly 3 percent of the vote in 2000. Nader is running again this year, this time as an independent. Earlier this year, the Libertarian Party nominated McKinney's onetime House colleague, ex-Republican congressman Bob Barr, as its presidential nominee. Barr also represented a district in the Atlanta suburbs during his four terms in Congress. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/12/mckinney.green.party/



Domenick DiMaggio	Jul 17 2008, 11:46 PM Post #2
Posts: 2,002 Group: Members Member #22 Joined: 01/14/08	Here's our real candidate. Now how do we get all these people away from Ron "not running as an indy" Paul and over to Cynthia McKinney?
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A.L.Ex - N.E.T.A	Sep 16 2008, 09:00 AM Post #3
Posts: 45 Group: Members Member #854 Joined: 09/16/08	I wish I could vote for Cynthia McKinney (I'm a Brit)
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look-up	Sep 16 2008, 10:13 AM Post #4
Posts: 1,642 Group: Admins Member #63 Joined: 01/15/08	Domenick DiMaggio Jul 17 2008, 11:46 PM Here's our real candidate. Now how do we get all these people away from Ron "not running as an indy" Paul and over to Cynthia McKinney? we can't, unfortunately. there's just not the grass-roots organization at this late in the game to shift all of Dr. Paul's support to McKinney. It's sad really. I wish Paul would have shown the world just how ridiculous the two-party system is and left the Republican party. I think the reason we need to vote for any of these underdogs is like Jesse Ventura has said... it's like a vote of no confidence in the two party system. It's like voting "None of the above". It's a true shame that we can't get more of the African American voters to shift to Cynthia McKinney. She's got more integrety than Obama, even on a bad day. She's more progressive. And from the Black/African American people I've known, she seems more "Black". That is, she's "real". She's not just talking out of her ass so that people will follow her. She's running because she's afraid of what will happen if she doesn't. That's a true patriot. I hope history will regard her as more brave, sincere, and hope-inspiring than Obama. All the bumper-stickers are making me sick to my stomach on a daily basis. My mom even has an Obama sign in her yard. I say vote for Paul, McKinney, or any of the other "no chance in hell" candidate before voting for one of the big two. I may be only one man with one vote, but if I vote my conscience, then at least I know I am truly a man. Edited by look-up, Sep 16 2008, 10:14 AM.
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Andoo Inc.	Sep 19 2008, 11:17 AM Post #5
Sir finds a lot Posts: 551 Group: Members Member #42 Joined: 01/15/08	Mckinney doesn't lay out the bullshit Obama does. He is giving out a lot of false promises of hope. His record in Illinois should show that he's not superman, but the questions that Mckinney brings up are hard hitting and honest. I am ashamed for many African American's who are squandering their potential of a real black president. I wish Paul would have made some major endorsement of her or something so the rest of us could put our efforts somewhere positive instead of whining about what we are going to have. Time will show just how backwards this country is.



A.L.Ex - N.E.T.A	Sep 25 2008, 07:46 AM Post #6
Posts: 45 Group: Members Member #854 Joined: 09/16/08	Funny how the media went crazy over the prospect of a BLACK man or a white WOMAN running for President but they fail to even mention that a BLACK WOMAN is running.
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