What can I say? Perspective does wonders.
McKinney running for president as Green candidate
(CNN) — The liberal environmentalist Green Party nominated former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney as its presidential candidate Saturday…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.”
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 [also known as punching a cop] with a U.S. Capitol Police officer who questioned her after failing to recognize her at a security checkpoint.
“The United States needs an alternative party,” McLarty said. “The narrow two-party system we have right now has not served us very well.”
Just so we’re all in agreement, the system is so bad, it’s also not serving the lunatic fringe well. So let’s get all excited at the prospect of a party that’s even crazier than the Dem and Repubs put together, with a nominee who should be running for a psychiatrist’s office, not for president.
Tammy,
The Reuter’s version of this CNN piece (which I sent you) also adds “hip-hop artist” to Rosa Clement’s resume. However after investigating a bit further I see that isn’t exactly correct. In fact Rosa’s a “hip hop activist/hip hop feminist” (wow… feminist just like Tammy! … kidding, kidding!) Her
speaker profile is informative. I have to admit after doing a little reading that I think this ticket is analogous to a marriage made in heaven. They compliment each other perfectly.
You had better hope that McCain does not get asked a question that knocks him off balance in a debate. I saw him in a Youtube video that absolutely makes him look every bit of a 71 year old man. Call it age discrimination, but McCain deserves to not be elected on that basis alone. I really question his mental capacities for the rigors of the presidency and this may well come out in the debates, especially with some pointed discussion against Obama.
McCain may look good to you, Tammy, but he does not look good to me.
He’s looking better all the time and it has to do with what we are now comparing him to. Just as Tammy has illustrated here.
And I know it’s been said, but I’ll vote for McCain, and I’ll even add proudly, if only on the basis of what will happen to our military people if he doesn’t win.
I long for the days when I was also a true believer and agonized for whom to cast my all-important vote in the great democratic process.
I long for the old days when I could vote for someone or something rather than be foreced to continually vote against someone or something.
OMG, look at her eyes! She is truly and completely freaking nuts!
Let’s take stock of the situation:
– The Democrat Party has nominated a Messiah.
– The Republican Party has nominated a Democrat.
– The Libertarian Party has nominated a Republican who will govern as a Democrat.
– And now the Green Party has nominated a Klingon.
Maybe Allah really does hate America.
If the American people voted in Mz. McKinney for the next president of the United States I would know we had truly lost our minds and all hope and my rear would be on the first flight out of here to St.Thomas !
What a mess. McKinney could have fallen back as the left wing of the wing-nut party. I have no idea how I’m going to vote this time. When you cut through the crap, Ron Paul looked pretty good. He just needed to be about 10 years younger, 8 years from now. We are headed for a monumental hyper inflationary meltdown and all of these jokers are talking about more goodies for one group at the expense of another. We need a “no congressman left behind” economics program. My prediction:
Obama wins.
Obama becomes Jimmy Carter + George McGovern on acid.
Obama gets bounced in four.
But who will actually reduce the size and scope of this government? I don’t see a real, Reagan, or better yet a Barry Goldwater anywhere.
This photo has to be a PhotoShop. Cynthia is freaky, but she isn’t THAT freaky.
McKinney not only makes McCain look good, she makes Ralph Nader look good, and that is saying a lot!
Hip Hop artist, hmmm…I always though Hip Hop was something you started doing once osteoperosis set in.
McKinney’s campaign will be a great contribution.
There’s famine relief, hurricane relief, earthquake relief…She’ll represent comic relief.
“And now the Green Party has nominated a Klingon.”
Not true. Klingons have a sense of duty and honor – and they’re not appeaseniks.
I think a Klingon would be preferable to the other alternatives.
I have to admit that I was a Green at one time. Way way back at the turn of the century around the time of the WTO riots and we Nader supporters thought we’d change the world. And boy did we ever!
McKinney is the perfect face of the new Green Party – the party that abandoned every decent principle it ever had to become only marginally better than Communists. A party that gives lip service to the environment but, like most “environmentalists” now a days, put cultural Marxism way above any supposed concern for the Earth.
How influential is the Green Party?
Here is San Francisco, there are 9,964 registered Greens – or roughly 2.3% of all registered voters.
Barry Hermanson – the Green candidate for the 12th Congressional District (Pelosi’s seat) – won their primary easily with a whopping 288 votes.
By contrast, there are 43,644 registered Republicans.