McKinney Goes Green

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  Posted By: ccharles @ 07/30/2008 1:25:04 PM

  Cynthia McKinney and the Green Party offer a choice that represents the positions of the majority: an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; single payer, universal health care; an end to the highest incarceration rate in the world and an energy policy that phases out nukes and fossil fuels without relying on cropland and deforestation. Rep. McKinney has boldly stood up to special interest lobbies and has endured attempts at character assassination. Now it is time for progressives to stop enabling the lame corporate candidates and to back a respectable alternative.

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  Posted By: hev1948 @ 07/22/2008 11:27:07 AM

  In 2001 the United States withdrew most of its diplomatic participation in the United Nations' World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia And Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa after it became clear that the gathering would give prominence not only to anti-American but also to anti-Israel and anti-Semitic leaders. Despite this, seven members of Congress including Congresswoman McKinney attended, and they, plus another seven congressional Democrats, lent their prestige to what became an anti-Jewish hatefest.
  
  In May 2002 McKinney was one of 17 House Democrats who voted against a House Resolution (HR 392) expressing support for Israel as it faced terrorist attacks that killed more than 600 civilians. The resolution she opposed stated that, "the United States and Israel are now engaged in a common struggle against terrorism."
  
  In 2002, after McKinney lost her bid for the Democratic nomination to her seat in Congress, her father offered the media a four-letter word as explanation: "The Jews, J-E-W-S." McKinney lost to a more moderate African-American woman, Denise Majette.
  
  Many Jewish leaders had given support to her opponent after it came to light that McKinney had taken huge political campaign contributions from radical Muslims, including some with links to terrorist-supporting organizations. McKinney also had the support of Minister Louis Farrakhan.

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  Posted By: hev1948 @ 07/22/2008 11:26:18 AM

  In 2000 Cynthia McKinney was one of only 15 Members of Congress to vote against the "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act." This measure provided that if during the procedure commonly called a "partial birth abortion" a nearly-born infant slipped entirely out of its mother before its brains were vacuumed out, it would acquire the human rights of a person already born.