Reply #4: Cynthia McKinney would be good [View All]

She's irrepressible and pretty much fearless. Her congressional bio:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000523

And check out her recent victory speech, it's powerful stuff:

http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com/news/statements/11-02-2004.html

Edit: A teaser, to entice people to read the speech:

I predict that the American people will send a resounding message tonight that the war machine--must stop now.

But there's another kind of machine of which we must beware that lurks among us: and that's the corporate propaganda machine.

Leaders who dare go against, or merely even question, the policies being polished by a slick media machine can get sucked up, chewed up, eaten up, devoured.

Or in a familiar set of words more famous than my own: "expose, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" such leadership. "To pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them." These words are straight from the FBI during its program to counter dissent in this country.

And as we have seen in the cases of both, these immensely powerful and monied machines take their aim directly at the people.

Breaking free of the influence of both these machines heralds a new way of thinking. And that's what this campaign was all about.

We really believe:

that a multitude of people can outweigh any special interest every time; that media magic has little persuasion over an informed people; that we as a people are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other; and that we can embrace the human rainbow, celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together, tear down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice.

Evidence of the power of this new way of thinking is here tonight in this room and in our election numbers.

And so commanding is our presence, and significant is our mission that what we have now accomplished in Georgia's Fourth Congressional District, is being broadcast by the best of America's corporate media: Who said the revolution wasn't going to be televised?