Green Party Taps McKinney

Hard to imagine McKinney is anything close to a real threat.

I am going with Barr. It would be nice though if the race came down to Baldwin, Barr, McKinney and Nader with McCain and Obama sitting on the sidelines. Keep in mind the reps and dems have put us $9 trillion in debt. The greatest thing that could happen to this country is a 3rd party win. I’ll kee dreaming for now.

areyouserious – Your statement speaks to the dumbed-down state of America’s voting public. They would rather vote for candidates who legislate on behalf of a small few special interests than the general public. One of the reasons we are in decline. I suggest you think outside the box.

Why didn’t you report that McKinney admitted to malfeasance of public funds?
McKinney Admits “Error” With Taxpayer Money
POSTED: 4:21 pm EST March 29, 2006
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Cynthia McKinney admits that she broke government rules by spending money to fly a celebrity to Atlanta.
Channel 2 Action News has uncovered documents showing McKinney, D-Ga., spent about $1,000 of taxpayer’s money to fly singer Isaac Hayes to Georgia to help dedicate a new office in Atlanta.

Anti-war candidate McKinney has more experience actually working as an elected representative in the U.S. Congress than the inexperienced Democratic Party candidate Barack “The Permanent Campaigner” Obama (who voted to confirm one of the architects of the U.S. attack on Iraq, Condoleezza Rice, as U.S. Secretary of State in 2005). So if Green Party presidential candidate McKinney is allowed to participate in the televised U.S. presidential debates on an equal basis with ABC News’ favorite son candidate, Obama, most U.S. anti-war voters will likely end up voting for the more qualified McKinney than for the less-qualified, more inexperienced, more opportunist Obama. See the Black Agenda Report’s website for more reasons why a McKinney Administration likely bring more radical democratic change to the United States in 2009 than a Wall Street-sponsored Obama Administration.

In a year when a third party candidate actually stands a chance, the Green Party abdicated by selecting someone they know stands no chance, McKinney. Worse the Green party is seen as spoiling by picking a black woman who can supposedly suck votes from both Obama and Hillary voters. Shame on them.

Go Cynthia! One amazing woman. I recommend listening to her speeches and taking a look at her record — you might be surprised by what she actually did while in office in DC, not her hairstyle or what scuffle happened, but what she did for the people in her district, and elsewhere.

Watch “American Blackout” or “Matrix of Evil” on Google, and ask yourself why the media, feels SO threatened by this woman. Hilliary’s got a body count, McKinney tried to STOP the war in Iraq. Yet she is considered a threat. Tragic. This is just further proof that if you are a minority and bother to speak up, (Unlike Obama who turtles at the masters feet) you will be shown the door. Your job is to smile at the photo op, take your government pension and pretend that everything is gonna be allright just as long as the staus quo continues. Meanwhile drug use, unemployment, health care, children out of wedlock, and violence in the black community contiues unabated. Yeah, everythings allright. Let’s just elect people who are unwilling to acknowledge, or do anything about the genocide that has been committed against people of color since our countries inception. No prominent black leader who went to office ever got their money by telling the government or the corporate special interest that the detrimential role they’re playing in the destruction of the black community is wrong and has to end. No, they just go along to get along, and every year prisions get filled, children go without parents, and those without health care are allowed to suffer. Were building more prisons everyday, while our schools crumble to the ground. Where is the love, where is the compassion? It sure aint coming from our leaders in the community or the government? That’s for sure. But don’t worry, according to Obama, or Jesse, everything is allright. The status quo is working just fine for them. This isn’t an example of “leadership” this is an example of willful incompetence on behalf of the so called “leaders” of the black community and the Democratic party. The more problems they “create” the more money they get, meanwhile real issues are never addressed or heard of. Those leaders and the Democratic party should be ashamed for what they continue to do to marginalize people of color. They couldn’t even bring themselves to investigate to voter intimidation and dragnets that kept minorities from voting in 2004. They are worthless. If you want change and leadership, it has to come from each other, NOT Washington DC.

Cynthia Mckinney’s run for prez is a joke. Mainstream will never vote for her. We have a chance to make Obama the most powerful black man on earth. Can Cynthia put aside her vain attempt for attention to get behind a black movement? Obama got 93% of the black vote! Let’s not disturb the movement. Cynthia is no different than Jesse Jackson…someone who hates to see another black get more attention than them. What a shame.

I think a Green party candidate should be committed to non-violence… which McKinney clearly is not. She is controversial and spews a lot of hate and vengeance. Not very green, in my opinion.
Like the song says, It ain’t easy bein’ green.

Liberals should vote for Cynthia – a true liberal.
Cynthis has way more experience than Obama and is not a corporate goon like Obama.

Once again the Greens stand out with amazing courage to run people of substance outside the corporate controlled, undemocratic two-party system. This must be why the Green Party has elected officials in high positions in Europe and elsewhere. It’s sad that most U.S. citizens are too brainwashed by the status quo to understand that speaking truth to power is not “nutty,” but desperately needed in our broken, racist, sexist nation. GO Greens!

If you live in a state that is almost guaranteed to go solidly blue or red, you can help the process by voting for a third party candidate (be it McKinney or Barr). If a candidate can get at least 5% of the national popular vote, his or her party will be eligible to field candidates for the next four years without having to gather signatures on petitions (a time-consuming, money-wasting effort with no guarantees of success due to the silly rules that allow whole pages of signatures to be rejected.)
If you continue to start with the mindset that a vote for anybody but a Democrat or Republican is a “wasted vote”, then you are the one who is wasting your vote. It is your vote to cast, not theirs to demand. No third party candidate will win the White House this year or in the foreseeable future, but helping those alternate parties on a national level can help get non-Democrats and non-Republicans elected to Congress. And that is where we have to start.

There you go Hillary supporters. A woman to vote for.
I suggest looking at Bob Barr. Obama and McCain are showing their true colors. Very ugly colors that do not match.

Ms. McKinney has every right to run for President. Some people, however, display behavior that makes them unsatisfactory as a national candidate. She has displayed such behavior, and a party that nominates such a person, loses credibility. I wonder if the Green Party shares her values, or are they simply making a political statement that is lost on the average voter.

If only the MSM would give the third party candidates the time of day. They only have eyes for Obama. I will vote for Nader/Gonzalez.

Why IS barack obama so fearful of a debate with Mccain?

Unfortunately I think McKinney is an asset to the Dems. This woman is so unpalatable I don’t think she is likely to pull much if any votes away from Obama, unlike Nader’s effect on Gore in 2000.

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Wow, you guys are really not in touch with the people on the grassroots level….WE LOVE CYNTHIA McKINNEY. The only reason she lost in Ga. where I live is because of cross over voting. She says in public what the people who isn’t brainwashed (meaning the mass of the blinded who are caught up in the MATRIX)or should I say conservative or rednecks what ever you care to call them….I like Obama, I love McKinney
I’m one of those who never voted cause I never felt like there was anyone who really gave a darn about the truth, just what’s popular….Then along came Obama but he has turned out to be another kiss ***. “What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11th?”

The Green Party lost any creditability it every had by nomination this crazy women. She reminds of those tin horn , arrogant, self centered dictators of Africa.
She care for the earth as much as a baby cares for his diapers.
BC

it’s really kinda dumb that you let people like cynthia on TV, i have to ask… who is paying cynthia mckinney to attempt to dilute Obama’s votes? Her platmorm is almost identical to Obama’s but claims to be a better option…Please Cythia…learn to see the bigger picture, you are not helping at all.

Well first off, if you “democrats” were truly democratic, and there were some truth to the spoiler argument you would force your candidates to support instant run off voting and proportional rep. Personally, I think you like being able to lean on minor parties when YOU field lame candidates like Al Gore.
As for the “convention”…Greens refuse corporate donations, and are not a recognized major party. 5% in a national vote would get substantial public funds to have a more professional convention, and money could be re-directed to field candidates who are hesitant to party from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. You can complain about our candidate, but you can’t deny that green issues 8 years ago were democratic issues this time around, at least in the primary. So we nominate a black congresswoman who couldn’t keep her seat. You nominated an empty suit, with a stolen campaign (check out the Deval Patrick one that I worked on), and clear lack of interest in properly representing the people who cast their votes for a fake populist. If Obama had any backbone he would’ve stuck to his primary platform on FISA NAFTA and publicly funding his campaign, gotten serious on healthcare, and wouldn’t have anything to worry about from “some whacko fringe party”.
And seriously… cool it on Nader. It’s funny that supposed liberals enjoy trash talking one of the most dedicated, and successful public advocates when it was their party,along with the GOP who made it impossible for him and others like him to work as they had before. Why else would such a stubborn narrow-minded man change his ways and decide to run for president?

I just think Willie Horton when I hear Al Gore’s name. Why did he come up with that one in the 1980s for DuKaKis, giving H.W. something to which he could beat the Democratic nominee across the head?
Race relations is a tough business. Who really knows?

At last the Greens nominate somebody who has federal experience–and would be able to call in favors if elected. I will vote for McKinney and be pleased to do this.

Cynthia is crazy and racist against white people.

I was planning on attending the Green National Convention about a year ago, but while volunteering for the Draft Nader ’08 effort , my local Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party proved to be either completely incompetent, or downright unethical. For instance, they gave McKinney workers contacts while she wasn’t even a registered Green, but failed to give myself (a life-long Green Party member) and the Draft Nader folks any contacts at all (instead, vacillating back and forth between “yes” and “no” replies). A day or two before the Primary Election, they gave me my hometown contact list–a far cry from the catering they conducted for McKinney. Very strange behavior, indeed…
Thankfully, we have a HIGHLY accomplished Independent candidate to support and vote for: Ralph Nader. His record of achievements for the American people dwarfs that of McKinney, McCain, Obama, and Barr–maybe even all together!
Go Nader/Gonzalez!
Best,
Nigel

McKinney is the only honest candidate in the race with a record to match her vision. For voters who demand more than nice-sounding rhetoric, McKinney is the best option. Voters who don’t care about the bill of rights or getting out of the middle east can still vote for Obama; let the rest of us vote for a candidate we can believe.