[Sosfbay-discuss] McKinney talks impeachment for Bush's 9/11 failure, possible candidacy

[E. Alan Meece]

Thanks for posting this talk. I don't think I'll be coming to the lunch
(I could change my mind), but I do support McKinney and she'd be the one
I'd vote for in primary and general elections of 2008.

Eric Meece ("Eric the Green")

Drew Johnson wrote:
> 
> http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2007/10/04/News/Former.Congresswoman.Calls.Out.Bush.For.911.Response-3011671.shtml
> Former congresswoman calls out Bush for 9/11 response
> By: Jackson Crews
> Issue date: 10/4/07 Section: News
> 
> Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney condemned the Bush administration's
> handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks during a speech in front of
> more than 70 people yesterday at the First Christian Church.
> 
> Speaking on a range of issues, McKinney, a Democrat, drew loud applause
> several times, particularly after critizing how the administration
> responded to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York
> City.
> 
> "How in the world can we sustain the injuries from Sept. 11th and not even
> ask any questions about what happened that day?" she asked.
> 
> She said members of Congress received "talking points" in the days after
> the attack urging them to tell their constituents that "(the attackers)
> hate our freedom."
> 
> "I thought that the failure of the Bush administration to protect the
> American people on Sept. 11, in and of itself, constituted high crimes and
> misdemeanors."
> 
> McKinney wanted to impeach Bush, but her mother persuaded her not to
> follow through.
> 
> "I hand-wrote articles of impeachment, but my mother said, 'Leave it
> alone, Cynthia, because they will kill you,' " McKinney said.
> 
> Several times she addressed the close presidential elections in 2000 and
> 2004.
> 
> "In 2000 - don't let anybody fool you into thinking that Ralph Nader was
> the cause of the Democrats losing the election," she said, receiving a
> round of applause.
> 
> "The bottom line is that the Republicans stole the election, and they
> stole it off the hopes and the dreams of black and brown people in
> Florida; and then, in 2004, they did it again."
> 
> Yesterday marked McKinney's second visit to Tucson. It was organized by
> Claudia Ellquist, co-chair of the Arizona Green Party.
> 
> McKinney hinted that she might again run for public office, this time as a
> Green Party candidate.
> 
> "If I am a candidate, it would be for only one reason: to provide an
> opportunity for the American people to vote their values, for a change and
> to also know that that vote 
 will institutionalize another seat at the
> public policy-making table."