Cindy Sheehan Endorses Cynthia McKinney, Green Party
Cindy Sheehan, flambuoyant anti-war activist, went ahead and endorsed McKinney-Clemente for President 2008. This is great news.
It’s important to note that while Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader both endorsed Sheehan, Sheehan endorsed McKinney in the end because of their long friendship through their struggle in the antiwar movement.
We are all at different levels of our struggle, but by helping each other along our paths, we will get to where we need to be. However, only through unity will we ever achieve this.
Can you imagine a day when three sisters, a black sister, a Latina sister, and a white sister will all unite to fight against racism, sexism, classism? Imagine no more, Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, and Rosa Clemente are together to fight for us.
I expressed my discomfiture with Obama pandering to the moderate and conservative brainwashers earlier, and I also talked about why I’m leaning towards McKinney.
This may be the year that the undemocratic two-party system loses its power. Here’s why. Besides the fact that many of you know that Barr is polling at as much as 4% in some polls, Nader at 1-2% and McKinney at 1%, the fact that that McKinney is running Green as opposed to independent has huge implications.
By working with an existing party, she not only has a more mobile base to work with, she’s ensuring future Green candidates an easier road. McKinney and Clemente are the stable base that is going to make the Green party into a force to be reckoned with, rather than a socialist political laughing-stock. With three third party candidates running in the 2008 election, the combined totals of third parties are guaranteed a percentage that will make polling more complex and both major parties just a little bit more scared of that factor.
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