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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 7060
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 10:53 pm: | 
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(Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney on the Ballot In '08. The left-wing activist Ralph Nader from the 2000/Gore controversy will also be on the Ballot this year. http://www.draftnader.org/ I kinda like them both. ...My Black side loves McKinney and my liberal side likes Nader as well)
A Message from Cynthia McKinney
A Discussion of Race Worth Having
March 18, 2008
Much has been made around the edges of this campaign about the issue of race. Sadly, nothing has been made of the public policy exigencies that arise because of the urgent racial disparities that continue to exist in our country.
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I am glad that candidate Obama mentioned the existing racial disparities in education, income, wealth, jobs, government services, imprisonment, and opportunity. Now it is time to address the public policies necessary to resolve these disparities. Now it is time to have the discussion on how we are going to come together and put policies in effect that will provide real hope and real opportunity to all in this country.
To narrow the gap between the ideals of our founding fathers and the realities faced by too many in our country today: That must be the role of public policy at this critical moment in our country today.
I welcome a real discussion of race in this country and a resolve to end the long-standing disparities that continue to spoil the greatness of our country. I welcome a real discussion of all the issues that face our country today and the real public policy options that exist to resolve them. That must be the measure of this campaign season. For many voters, this important discussion has been too vague or completely non-existent. Now is the time to talk about the concrete measures that will move our country forward: on race, war, climate change, the economy, health care, and education. Our votes and our political engagement must be about ensuring that fairness truly for all is embodied in "liberty and justice for all."
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Tonya
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Post Number: 7062
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 12:49 am: |
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Of course, the ONLY way I would vote either one is if Barack Obama's name were not on the ballot. 
Barack is my number one choice...he did a good job with his speech on race.
McKinney and Nader are two and three respectively.
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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 7067
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 06:01 pm: |
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McCain says winning over black voters will be tough
(AP) The Arizona senator described in vivid detail the clubbing that fractured the skull of John Lewis, now a Democratic congressman from Georgia. McCain, who speaks often of courage shown by military veterans, said he never saw greater courage than Lewis and the marchers showed that day, March 7, 1965.
"There must be no forgotten places in America, whether they have been ignored for long years by the sins of indifference and injustice, or have been left behind as the world grew smaller and more economically interdependent," McCain said outside the St. James Hotel, several hundred yards away from the historic bridge.
"In America, we have always believed that if the day was a disappointment, we would win tomorrow. That's what John Lewis believed when he marched across this bridge," McCain said.
Lewis issued a statement Monday saying he was grateful to McCain for recognizing the march.
"These seminal events cut to the core of American democracy," Lewis said. "Their significance to all Americans is much bigger, much larger and much more profound than partisan politics."
full report http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iE2JCSH5p9r2GBkQWS9TWAMzmuvQD906G9C00 |
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