Cynthia McKinnsey
The Green Party nominated their own candidate for the presidential election. It is Cynthia McKinney, 53 years old. During her time as a Democrat in the representative chamber, she fought for the rights of Blacks.
McKinney's Vice President is the 36 years-old journalist and Hiphop activist Rosa Clemente from Brooklyn, NY. The spokesman of the Green Party Scott McLarty says: "The USA needs an alternative Party." McKinney is the alternative.
She stands for radical changes in the ecological policy (especially ecological sustainability), feminism and sexual equality and the decentralization of wealth and power.
An indication for her success may be the 2004 election, when the team Nader/La Duke got 2.8 million votes for the Green Party. Let's see, if she will be as successful as these two.
She has got great potential: She was a opponent of George Bush's war, at times, when a position like hers was diffucult to hold. She is involved with the victims of the hurricane Katrina, for their rights to return to their houses and their rights to be supported with money of the government. Cynthia McKinney is as left winged as it is possible in the established American policy.
That's the only reason why she has no chance to win this election.
The Green Party has tried for a long time to establish a third part in the two-party-system. The more votes McKinnsey gets, the more the anti-democratic character of that system is shown. Every attempt which had been made to establish a third party failed - they failed at the majority voting system and at the institutional discrimination.
Now protest voters in the USA have got the chance to vote for a woman, who stands - in contrast to Obama and McCain - always on the side of the underdogs: Cynthia McKinnsey.
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