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McKinney is officially the one
Cynthia McKinney is the Green Party’s 2008 presidential nominee.
Democrats who either want to be anti-Green trollish, or don't follow the Green Party, once again take note that Ralph Nader is NOT the official anything of any organized political party.
That said, it looks like Raw Story is deliberately
practicing “my Democrats, right or wrong” bias with the picture it used on its story (which I have linked). Don’t
tell me there’s not an official AP picture from the convention, let alone a MUCH better thumbnail than that. (That's part of why I made the comment I did above, and have another comment along that line below.)
Next, to posters on Raw Story, Talking Points Memo for re-running a 2006 story, etc., Georgia has crossover primary voting; in a district that tends more than 70 percent Democratic, she didn’t lose renomination in 2006 just based on Democratic voters.
Third, there’s a difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. And, she has apologized for past campaign remarks by her father and a campaign manager.
Comments (8)
And we should care because...?
July 13, 2008 1:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
The damage has already been done.
July 13, 2008 2:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nader is right about one thing: Democrats need to earn votes and not simply to expect or demand them. If Obama wants people to vote for him and not for Nader or McKinney, he needs to earn those votes. The American people are against the war, in favor of civil liberties, etc. That's why we voted against the Republicans in 2006, only to be disappointed by the Pelosi/Reid leadership in Congress. If Obama moves to the right on war and civil liberties issues (which are moves away from the center, and not towards it, as the MSM likes to put it), Obama will be inviting people to vote for Nader or McKinney. Come on Barrack, earn our votes by taking clear and unequivocal stands against the war and against the Bush/Cheney attacks on our civil rights. No more of this FISA nonsense, no more equivocating about adjusting your anti-war position. To do those things merely invites people to vote for Nader or McKinney in disgust. Earn those pro-American anti-war votes. Earn those pro-American civil liberties votes. And TPM folk: stop saying that people who might vote for McKinney or Nader are somehow responsible for a possible Republican victory. Votes must be earned, not demanded. Demands of that sort are petulant and unbecoming. If Nader and McKinney get enough votes to tip the election to McCain, it will be Obama's fault for running a weak campaign that equivocates on the crucial issues of our time.
July 13, 2008 3:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
No, you're not responsible for a possible Republican victory. That was the reward the Green party got last time.
This time they'll get a different reward. They just won't be part of the most exciting political moment we've had in forty years.
When we enact universal healthcare, they'll be sitting on the sidelines. They won't be able to say they were part of it.
While we affirm a woman's right to choose, they'll be sitting on the sidelines.
While we get out of Iraq, they'll be sitting on the sidelines.
While we fight to control CO2, and craft a sustainable energy policy, they'll be sitting on the sidelines.
While we roll back tax cuts for the rich, and steer the country back toward economic justice, they'll be sitting on the sidelines. I guess they didn't think any of this was that big a deal. Anyway, for the next eight years, they won't be able to say they were part of it. They won't be able to say they helped.
Personally, I'd have a hard time living with that.
July 13, 2008 8:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'M SHITTING UP YOUR POLITICAL THREAD
July 13, 2008 4:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Jews have bought everybody. Jews. J. E. W. S.
Gimma a break, what a looooooser. Green? Her TEETH?
July 13, 2008 5:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, the Green Party, our electoral troll, concern-trolling us to be more nobly pure, so we can be Michael Foot or George McGovern. Thanks for all your help, Green Party. It really helps the environment to stand aside so that there's Republican hegemony.
I can tell the difference between Obama and McCain, even if a Green can't. I don't deserve McCain. A Green who sits this election out does by not voting or voting Green does.
The day of Bush-Gore, there were Greens aggressively handing out Nader stuff at my public transit stop. I wish they came back the next day, or any later day, to hear my free speech. I hope they're really proud, and I'm sure they don't question themselves for a moment. Why should they? They're more pure than me, than the too-centrist Democratic Party, than the world they dirtied by electing George W. Bush.
July 13, 2008 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perhaps Ms. McKinney can beat up her opponents?
Well, at least the white ones. :)
July 13, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
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