Posted on 12/19/2007 8:39:00 PM PST by Iron Munro
Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is on the political comeback trail again. This time, she's running for president.
In a speech posted on her campaign Web site, runcynthiarun.org, McKinney, 52, ended weeks of speculation and officially announced her run as a Green Party candidate. She sounded the theme "Come Home To The Green Party" while attacking both major parties as supporters of the war in Iraq and tools of corporate interests.
"The Democrats, no different than their Republican counterpart, eat out of the hands of corrupt lobbyists and feed at the same corporate trough," McKinney says in the video. "I am proud to say the Green Party is my new political home."
In recent weeks, McKinney has traveled to campaign rallies and fund-raisers in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin trying to organize party support and get her name on state ballots. She said she plans to campaign in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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McPigtails is just another problem the beast will have. I like this.
THIS is the real deal.
She doesn’t even know she’s become a joke.
FINALLY—someone to stop the Ron Paul juggernaut!
She should be running from a net and a straight-jacket...
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