Green Party Taps McKinney (Cynthia McKinney nominated for US President)

ABC News ^ | 7/13/08 | Jake Tapper

[XR7]

For those voters who think Ralph Nader and Bob Barr are too conventional, the Green Party this weekend named former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia, its 2008 presidential nominee.

At the Green Party's nominating convention Saturday in at the Chicago Symphony Center, McKinney received 313 out of 532 votes cast in the first round of balloting.

"I am asking you to vote your conscience, vote your dreams, vote your future, vote Green," McKinney told the convention's 800 or so attendees. "A vote for the Green Party is a vote for the movement that will turn this country right-side-up again."

McKinney, a former six-term congresswoman and the first African-American woman elected to represent Georgia in Congress, might be best known for asking "What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11th?"

Controversy has followed the outspoken public official seemingly wherever she goes. In 2000 she wrote that "Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time." (She said that despite the fact that Gore's campaign manager at the time, Donna Brazile, is African-American.) In March 2006, McKinney and a Capitol Hill Police officer got into an altercation.

McKinney was defeated for reelection in the Democratic primary in 2002. After her successor unsuccessfully ran for US Senate, McKinney reclaimed her US House seat in 2004, only to be defeated in the primary again in 2006.

McKinney's vice presidential nominee will be hip-hop activist and journalist Rosa Clemente, 35.

In 2004, 119,859 Americans voted for then-Green Party nominee David Cobb, giving him 0.1 percent of the total. In 2000, 2.8 million voters chose then-Green Party nominee Nader, giving him 2.7 percent of the total, and in the view of many Democrats, helping to swing the election to then-Gov. George W. Bush.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"YOU better vote for me, man -- OR I'LL CUT YOU!"

[clintonh8r]

“Cynthia been talkin’ down to black folk. I’m gonna cut out her, uh, um, uh,.....”

[Dr. Ursus]

What about her methane emissions-Greenies!

[Issaquahking]

WOW! Talk about a vote divider! The Left sill be falling all over itself for her. Just when I thought the left couldn't get any more wierd...they proved me wrong again.


Run Cindy Run!

[Cobra64]

"I wants ta be presdent."

[adorno]

Cynthia McKinney - LOL! Truth is indeed starnger than fiction.

Well, she does have a lot more experience than Obama. Never mind that her experience is very dubious and way out of whack with the standard and traditional American experience.

But then, Barack is not very far from her on the issues and they may come very close to being twins on the issues. But, the difference is in the packaging.

The fact remains that McKinney has more experience; the difference is in the fact that she is not "likable" at all. Obama may be "likable" to a lot of liberals, but if their positions on the issues were compared, I doubt we'd find more than a couple of differences.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Better yet, of what use is a hip-hop activist?"

They're on emergency standby duty, in case all porcines develop irrevocable constipation.

[Congressman Billybob]

McKinney is a racist, selfish, belligerent, moron. Why even people as flaky as the Green Party would connect themselves to her, is beyond me. But the Greens won't be on the ballot most places. Even where they are, she won't draw many votes.

She's a public joke, no more.

Congressman Billybob

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[peggybac]

OMG that is too funny!

[Red_Devil 232]

Will she get Federal funding? If so, then she needs an IRS team asigned to her!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

LMAO, that is a thing of beauty!!

[Daffynition]

This candidacy oughta be good for a few giggles.

[RightWhale]

This will draw off some of O’Bama’s base.

[Gay State Conservative]

A few fries short of a Happy Meal.

[Paladin2]

Yeh, I laughed my head off when I heard this on NPR today. Not only that, the VP candidate is a “hip-hop activist”. It just doesn’t get any funnier than that!

[Mr. Silverback]

Interesting tat on Clemente...Africa colored with the Puerto Rican flag.

[counterpunch]

Cynthia McKinney is authentically black, unlike the hustler Obama who talks out of both sides of his mouth.

[river rat]

The Green Party....

Fools, Communists and tools of our Republic’s enemies...

This country needs a serious housekeeping — cockroaches are becoming a real and dangerous nuisance.

[tflabo]

Green Party leadership smoking rather than drinking the green tea! Now she needs a few gust appearances by Bernie Mac for her fund raiser events!

Cynthia Mac put the 'fun' in dys'fun'ctional! Eat your heart out Scrappleface!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, let’s see her in the debates. The lunatic fringe deserves a voice in the debates.