July 20, 2003

Run Cynthia! Run!

We're back to just plain bad taste pictures again.

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Eeeeewww! That is just gross! The sicko who sent me this photo titled it Side Impact Airbags.

I'm sure many of you wonder why I subscribe to the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation since their editorial staff is so liberal and they have anti-American anti-war reporters like Ron Martz to really piss me off. Well, it's because every now and then, I'll be paging through the paper and I come across sumpin' like this that just makes my day.

A faction of the Green Party is rallying support for former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who represented Georgia's 4th District, to become the party's candidate for president in 2004.

Please! Please! Do it! Do it!

An Internet site -- www.votemckinney.org -- has been created by a committee of Greens "who have a deep and enduring respect for Ralph Nader but do not take it for granted that he will be our candidate for the president next time around."

Love the site! Someone on the site has suggested that a good running mate would be Medea Benjamin. I just gotta know what these people are smoking. It must be really good shit.

The article continues ...

It touts 10 reasons why McKinney would be a good candidate, including:

• She has a reputation for being one of the most progressive members of Congress.

Progressive = communist

• She is black, female and Southern.

Don't forget racist since she hates white people. Or bigoted, since she hates Jews. I didn't know that the Green Party was the party of racist bigots. I learn sumpin' new every day.

• She has a following of political allies and a team of experienced organizers

Hey, maybe if one of the guys Queasy declared persona non grata gets the Dimocratic nomination, the NAACP can vote for the Green Party. Oh yeah. I forgot. Those dudes raced right down to Miami on the last day to kiss and make up.

• She has experience working within the federal government, unlike many other Greens.

Since none of those looney tunes ever get elected.

At a party meeting here Friday, Michael Feinstein, a city councilman from Santa Monica, Calif., said he thought McKinney would be the party's vice presidential candidate, running with Nader, the 2000 nominee.

"It's a combination just made in heaven."

I agree! I agree! Please! Please!

McKinney is "thinking about" running as a Green but has also expressed interest in running for Congress as a Democrat, he said.

No Cynthia! Run as a Green! Please!

Other Green Party members who attended the party's annual meeting had mixed viewpoints on whether McKinney would seek the party's nomination and whether she's the best candidate to represent the party.

No! She's the best candidate! Trust me on this!

"I think everybody loves Cynthia McKinney, but a question is whether she has [the grass-roots infrastructure] for running a big campaign for the presidential race," said John Baker of Montgomery County, Md.

Yeah. Like you guys have a chance. At least give us some entertainment. I would have blogs that would write themselves. And wouldn't you just love to see her in a debate with the major candidates. Priceless!

Jane Hunter, a delegate from New Jersey and co-chair of the party's 2004 Presidential Exploratory Committee, called McKinney "a very Green friend."

No, she's black.

Baker said Nader is still the most favored of six possible candidate nominees.

A poll of Green Party members ranked McKinney as their second choice to head the 2004 ticket.

Nader and McKinney would be almost as much fun.

Marc Reichardt, chair of the Michigan Green Party, worries that the party could become too closely linked to Nader.

"I think [McKinney] would be brilliant," he said. "Being African-American and a woman . . . I think that's a barrier we would like to break down, see crossed, pushed and forgotten about."

Except, that's what you people would be running her as: a black woman.

Anyway I think she would make a great candidate for the Green Party.

Run Cynthia! Run!


Posted by denny at July 20, 2003 07:46 PM