Cynthia McKinney still speaking truth to power, even as she concedes.

[Skidmore]

That was some concession speech. It gave nothing and suffered no fools. She issued a ringing call for change and justice and peace--a stand against poverty and greed, for stopping the war, and for reclaiming the party.

Well done.

[charlie]

1. And with a smile

wished Johnson well. Bless her.

[AlamoDemoc]

2. My prediction is that Hank Johnson nationwide purse ....

My prediction is that Hank Johnson nationwide purse will dry up just like Denise Majette and McKinney will fight back again in two years time.

[rinsd]

19. Ahhhhh historical revisionism at its finest

Guess who got more out of state money, Johnson or McKinney?

http://www.opensecrets.org/races/instate.asp?ID=GA04&cycle=2006&special=N

Also Majette ran for the Senate as a favor to the party so the seat didn't go unopposed. She fought the good fight and it would have been great if she had been a Senator.

Here is Majette's record. Tell me what the big problem is with her that she desrves such scorn other than she is not McKinney

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Denise_Majette.htm

[Sven77]

3. can she run as an independent ?

it would be a crime for joe to run and not cynthia.

[katinmn]

4. She gave a great speech. I was moved by the tears of the guy

standing behind her.

Not many fight for justice like Cynthia.

She will be back!

[marions ghost]

5. I have a feeling

we haven't seen the last of Cynthia McKinney

[meisje]

7. Yeah,she is sure to show up on an episode of cops

[IndyOp]

8. Capital Police admit McKinney deliberately targeted by white officers...

Did you see THIS episode of COPS?

Capitol Hill is ‘Last Plantation’ according to officers

Atlanta, GA – Cynthia McKinney was deliberately targeted by white U.S. Capitol Police Officers, part of the systemic racism of the U.S. Capitol Police Force say four African American Capitol Officers. The startling revelation, coming a week before her primary run-off against Hank Johnson, came in a video released by Ian Inaba, director of the Sundance award winning American Blackout (which will open early in an exclusive engagement this Friday in Atlanta).

<snip>

“I know the black members are disrespected, I’ve seen instances where black members are disrespected,” said one officer in the video. “They’ll do things to black Members that they don’t do to white Members.”

Another officer in the video recalls white U.S. Capitol Officers actually preparing to confront African American Members of Congress.

“I’ve heard them say, ‘Well when certain members come through here, in particular Cynthia McKinney, she ain’t just gonna run up these steps. I’m gonna stop her,” said the officer. “It’s almost like they be waiting … want confrontation.”

The McKinney incident was just the latest in a long line of questionable situations and occurrences that are part of what the officers call the “good old boy system” in the Capitol Police Force. They term the Capitol the “last plantation”

More...

[meisje]

11. yawn

She's bat shit insane! with a nasty tude, maybe that's why they stopped her.

[progressoid]

13. Yep, and an easy target for Hannity, Rush etc.

[IndyOp]

15. Now they will find another easy target and you will help them by

failing to recognize when one of our own is under attack, accepting Hannity & Rush's version of events (as filtered through dozens of corporate media outlets).

Whose next? Barney Frank? Dennis Kucinich? John Conyers? Maxine Waters?

:(

[mom cat]

18. Good post . There is a lot of racism in America still.

[ShaneGR]

6. Her concession speach was odd though....

What does Cuba and Venezuela have to do with a mostly black Atlanta district? And singing the Pink song was odd.

[IndyOp]

9. I read it as heartbreak. She is trying to be who I WANT my Reps to be...

Someone who is Thinking Globally and Acting Locally. The US attitude and actions toward Cuba and Venezuala are psrt of the sickness we call "US Foreign Policy" -- we can't truly have healthy communities at home until we get right with the world and vice versa.

Ned Lamont struck a similar chord last night when he said we need a Foreign Policy based on truth and based on respecting other nations.

McKinney has withstood so much hatred from right and left for speaking the truth - I have tiny experience with that, tiny and I understand the sense of exhaustion and the feeling that I am going to whither away under someone's glare. I think Pink fits.

[jpkenny]

10. Not odd. She knows the US is about drag us into confrontations

with both and anything that hurts the US economy will hurt African Americans the most. Cynthia, like so many African American politicians is capable of thinking beyond the scripts and talking points that keep Americans unaware of what is going on around them.

[ananda]

12. I guess she was targeted for defeat..

.. because of her independent, outspoken views.

Dinos and Rinos are indistinguishable these days for the most part,
and she was her own person, standing up for the people and what's
right.

[Freddie Stubbs]

14. She'll have plenty of time to do that now

that she won't have to beother with showing to work in DC.

[Skidmore]

16. You may live to eat those words.

I think Ms. McKinney will be back some day and just as in-your-face with the truth as she is now.

[bigtree]

17. that's what she was there for

Let's hope Johnson finds his heart and fire.

[Skidmore]

20. Given that his beef with her was that she was an "embarrassment"

for making waves, I doubt that we'll see much truth telling from him.