Reply #24: It's a sad day when we lose someone like McKinney [View All]

[Cookie wookie]

who has stood up with great courage and spoken truth to power. Why did we lose her? Because people want polite and nice more than they want someone who will actually fight for our rights. Well they have mr. nice thanks in part to his support by republicans and the press. This guy was a commissioner, has no experience with the job he's going to do, and has nothing to recommend him other than all the brainless boobs who voted for him to get her out of office.

What does this say to dems in power -- make nice with Mr. Bush or else you'll be dogged and put under a microscope until some flaw is found that can be magnified all out of proportion until you are politically destroyed. As in the Dean "scream"....

No one, NO ONE, can stand up to that kind of negative scrutiny.

When will we ever learn?

Oh how you will be missed by those of us who knew when we called on you, whether it was to oppose the war, to fight for verified voting, to fight to get a real investigation of 9/11, to fight against Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, you would be there fighting with us without flinching or posturing or taking the coward's way out.

Goodbye Cynthia. You served us well. Your loss is our greater loss.