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Cynthia McKinney for president!
this was entertaining.
Stealth Candidacy
The Green Party's Cynthia McKinney Takes Puzzling Path To the Electorate
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 27, 2008; C01
ATLANTA
Spies.
They're "probably" in the room, she says ominously.
Listening. Conspiring. Taking it all down.
Cynthia McKinney thinks we're being watched, and she says so, leaning into the mike. The crowd of several hundred in this Atlanta public library auditorium -- graying Black Panthers gathered for a reunion, a pamphleteering Revolutionary Communist Party guy, Pan-African liberationists -- mostly nods in agreement.
Someone in the back of the room calls out, "Teach!"
McKinney -- almost three years removed from her smackdown with a Capitol Hill policeman, out of Congress, out of the Democratic Party -- has been in a teaching mood as she wages a kind of un-campaign for president on the Green Party ticket.
As she says in an interview at a secluded table in the library: "We define what victory is," explaining that the campaign is not so much about getting votes but "finding kindred spirits," something more than the simplistic media folks look for. "This is far bigger."
Bottom line, though, why run?
"Why not?" she says. "It was former comptroller general David Walker who said, 'Now is the time for leadership, not lag-ship.' "
What's that mean?
"I'll let you figure that out," she says.
McKinney travels in a rented Hyundai Sonata, taking turns driving with an aide who has accompanied her on at least one all-night drive from Maryland to Louisiana. Her skeleton staff frequently has no idea where she is. The calendar on her campaign Web site is empty. Her phone goes unanswered; the box for her voice mail is full.
She is a Candidate of Mystery.
When she surfaces, as she did for two appearances and a live Internet discussion one recent weekend in Georgia -- the state that sent her to Congress six times and kicked her out twice -- she's got a lot to say about a lot of things, but not much about running for president. (She's on the ballot in 32 states, but not here in Georgia, where she blasts "restrictive ballot laws" and asks followers to write in her name Nov. 4.)
She believes there are "credible reports" that the U.S. military dumped 5,000 prisoners -- each with "a single bullet wound to the head" -- in Louisiana swamps using Hurricane Katrina as cover.
She believes that Jeb Bush -- the president's brother -- facilitated Colombian drug shipments into the United States when he was governor of Florida.
She believes the "corporate media" are censoring stories about the United States "restarting dirty wars in Latin America" and about "Bush's real problem with Eliot Spitzer," a head-turner that she dangles without specifying which Bush she is talking about or explaining.
"We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King," she says, rolling now as she addresses the Panther group in the auditorium. "We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur."
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Re: Cynthia McKinney for president!
There was an event at the National Press Club recently that provided a platform for the third party candidates to talk. At this event she was seated on the stage directly next to the Constitution Party candidate (Chuck Baldwin). I couldn't stop laughing at the extraordinarily uncomfortable looks on both of their faces.
Such a tragedy for all those great Americans being assassinated... Martin Luther King, Jr.; Bobby Kennedy; John F. Kennedy
...Tupac....
Clearly, who killed Tupac is a hot issue in this campaign.
Congratulations, Green Party, you found a leader crazier than Nader. That must have taken some real initiative.
she's a nut, no doubt.
nevertheless, i really do think it's a travesty we don't know who killed 2pac and Biggie. yo, just sayin.
So true. I have family in Atlanta and go there regularly, and I quite enjoyed the McKinney drama first-hand and through regular updates from family. That woman is loco.