Posted on 09/05/2010 8:18:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The message of peace pedaled into Pueblo on Saturday.
Riders with Bike4Peace, including former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, who ran for president in 2008 on the Green Party ticket, stopped in Pueblo on a cross-country trek to the White House.
"We started at the House of Common Sense in Oakland (Calif.) and we're going to end at the White House, which needs some common sense," McKinney said Saturday at the Unitarian Universalist Church on the East Side, where the bikers were treated to a potluck meal.
McKinney and five others cyclists are biking across the U.S. promoting peace and conversations about "climate change, oil wars, health crisis and economic crunch."
The group is using bicycling to show how to reverse those four particular problems — it improves health, is more economical, environmentally friendly and doesn't require oil.
"It's getting people to ride bikes," said one cyclist, Aurelio "Yeyo" Garcia of Seattle, who gave his life to biking four years ago when he got rid of his car, quit his automotive technician job and sold his tools.
Riding partner Vernon Huffman of Oregon said he hasn't owned a car for a few years.
"We rely on cars to go everywhere and that's why (as a society) we're not really healthy," the former Los Angeles bus driver said. He explained how the simple act of bike riding could change world, national and personal problems.
"The bicycle is an empowering tool. I can go anywhere I want with it. It could be used to help climb out of homelessness. If you have a bicycle, people can get to work, get to appointments. They don't have to worry about transportation," Huffman said.
The group's journey began July 24. They have logged about 1,300 miles so far and leave today, heading east on U.S. 50 for Haswell, Colo., and then Kansas.
The cyclists are riding without any motor support.
For McKinney, who isn't a trained cyclist, the journey has been "challenging."
"The founders of Bike4Peace have done a wonderful job of marrying these two topics together, peace with bicycling," the Georgia native said.
"What I've found is that as we travel to all these different communities and engage in a different dialogue, we find commonality on these issues that these communities didn't know they had," she said.
Saturday's potluck gave Green Party candidates Bob Kinsey and Gary Swing an opportunity to stump in Pueblo.
Swing is running for U.S. Congress and Kinsey for U.S. Senate.
fat butt space freak
Politicians are buffoons when they are in office but they really get freaky when you throw them out.
Meanwhile, if she doesn't crump out, I'll bet she winds up in Mexico or somewhere else way off course
“Ex-lawmaker takes on new venture: Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney biking across U.S. in name of peace”
Hmmmmmm.....more than likely a tricycle with a tractor seat.
One word. Tacks.
She looks like Buckwheat.
Hehehe..
Does anyone actually believe this? She will ride right out of camera range and then climb into a car.
i bet everyone in that freakshow is going to be in a real good mood on their 5k trailbikes every day.
never seen a trailbike with training wheels, hope for extensive media video coverage.
Well, well. While they haven’t taught pigs to fly, it appears they’ve taught at least one to ride a bicycle.
Alert all Jewish 18 wheeler drivers!!!!!!
Cynthia McKinney wouldn't know common sense if it smacked her in the face.
Ok, I have no problem with people wanting to highlight a healthier lifestyle. What I have a problem with are people who self-righteously champion a particular lifestyle that depends on other people not living that lifestyle. You have a former bus driver, a former politician, a former automotive mechanic. How are they supporting themselves? There’s a potluck at a church, probably some sponsorships, some grants, maybe unemployment compensation. How many people must commute to work in cars to afford to support these folks and their campaign? How many people must earn salaries and pay taxes to afford to support these folks as they bike across the country? How many charities depend on people with disposable income and generosity to feed and house these folks?
Until they demonstrate they can support themselves and contribute to society on a long-term basis with the measures they urge on others, I don’t really want to hear a sermon or lecture from them. I especially don’t want them using a publicity stunt to further skew the values of the White House denizens away from what will make our economy healthy and vital for everyone, not just bikers. If you want to preach about sustainability, physician, heal thyself.
I told's ya... she crazy!!!
***...doesn’t require oil. ***
Yeah, just grease, which is totally different.
PLEASE, PLEASE, please come through West Virginia on US 33.
CHIEFTAIN PHOTO/CHRIS FRYER
Former Georgia U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney (right) shares a laugh with
Ndiya Ogba (left) and Rana Wahdan, both of Denver, during
a stopover in Pueblo on Saturday. McKinney is taking part in a
Bike4Peace cross-country bicycle ride
I’m sure she gets driven to a location , they take the bikes off the racks, she does a photo opt then jumps back into the van and off to another location.
FOOL SHE IS
Be sure to Google up the two Denver useful idiots - Ndiya Ogba and Rana Wahdan - who met with this jackass. Who said “gwine to collie” makes you any smarter?
Well, the further away she rides from Georgia, the better off we’ll be here.
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