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McKinney For Moonbat, 2008
Former Congressman Cynthia "Assault and Battery" McKinney is using the Green Party in an attempt to make her self relevant again after she was voted from office in 2006. How? By running for the Green Party presidential nomination. How about that? An irrelevant former congressman running for president in an irrelevant political party.
From CNSNews:
"The Republicans have deceived us; the Democrats have failed us," McKinney said in a video news release posted on the runcynthiarun.org Web site last week to announce her candidacy for the White House. "It is time for a new beginning, a time for hope to rise from the ashes of despair.
Well, she is half-right, the Democrats have failed the hard-left in pushing the agenda of surrender in Iraq. I have yet to see any one who makes the claim that Republicans have deceived us actually prove it. Probably because there was never any deceit involved in our Liberating Iraq. There may have been some mistakes made, due to bad intelligence, but there has been no deceit, except on the part of Democrats like Cynthia McKinney.
She goes on to claim that the war in Iraq is: "illegal, immoral and undeclared." There she isn't even half-right. It may be undeclared, but there is nothing illegal about it, and liberating the people of Iraq from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein (who murdered a half-million of his own people) is about as immoral as our liberating Europe from NAZI Germany in 1945. War was also used to end slavery in the United States. Was that also immoral? as for the war in Iraq being undeclared, let's look at some other wars that were also undeclared: the U.S. entry into WW2 (although a declaration of war did come after the first bombs were dropped), the Korean War, Vietnam War, Grenada, the Gulf War, Mogadishu, Bosnia, and the liberation of Afghanistan. And those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Why is it that the left calls only the Wars in Iraq, both of them, as being "illegal, immoral and undeclared?" Why is it they only get bent out of shape when the U.S. is involved in a war, but not when the aggressors, whether it was Iraq when it invaded Kuwait, or the soviet Union when it invaded Afghanistan, or North Vietnam when it invaded South Vietnam for the final time? I could probably list a hundred other wars, but I think this is enough to get the point across.
According to McKinney, who is also described as "no stranger to controversy and unafraid of speaking truth to power," it is time to "break the vicious cycle where the poor go to war and veterans come home wounded and ignored."
Well, she is "no stranger to" hitting police officers who are only attempting to do their job, then screaming "racism" when called on the carpet for it. And this isn't the Vietnam War we're talking about, where the hard-left, people like McKinney, are the ones who spat upon are soldiers and called them "baby killers" when they returned home from that war. And her claim that it is "the poor" who go to war is also false. Even during Vietnam when there was a draft, this wasn't entirely true. Okay, there were people of wealth and privilege, like Bill Clinton, who milked the system in order to avoid military service, and many others who went to Canada. But there were also many people of wealth and privilege who served in Vietnam.
And if it is only "the poor" who are going to war, then why are active duty re-enlistments at record levels?
On the flip side, McKinney's campaign site gives yet one more reason to NOT support Ron Paul. One of the comments posted there reads:
I'm actually a Ron Paul supporter and was recently thinking "I hope Ron gets the republican nomination and runs with Cynthia McKinney."
That combination could cause me to vote for Hillary.
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