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(Wall Street Journal)   Nader can't run for the Green Party this year; they've already selected a less embarrassing candidate with a better chance of winning: Good old Cynthia "I Hate Jews" McKopslapper   (online.wsj.com) divider line
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dahmers love zombie
2008-02-26 2:13:17 PM  
Sooooo...the Greens are officially becoming the US version of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party? I mean, they were well on their way, but tapping Cynthia "Jewbaiter" McCommunist pretty much seals it.
 
Jaboobinator
2008-02-26 2:16:13 PM  
I'll slap your kop!
 
fenrael23
2008-02-26 2:18:10 PM  
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THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR JELLO!
 
BravadoGT
2008-02-26 2:23:14 PM  
Radically left, anti-capitalist, anti-Semitic?

Sounds like the Green party has secured the Fark vote pretty nicely...
 
Bonkthat_Again [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-02-26 2:24:41 PM  
Radically left, anti-capitalist, anti-Semitic?

Sounds like the Green party has secured the Fark vote pretty nicely...

We play the race card too.
 
absoluteparanoia
2008-02-26 2:30:39 PM  
Allegations have been made that McKinney is an anti-Semite, though she herself denies this. Several pundits have accused her of making anti-Semitic statements, although without citing any specific quotations.[49][50] Others have accused her more generally of holding anti-Semitic beliefs[51] and/or running anti-Semitic campaigns for office.[52][53] Controversy erupted when one of her supporters, a member of the New Black Panther Party, said, "Why do you think she lost? You wanna know what led to the loss? Israel. The Zionists. You. Put on your yarmulke and celebrate."[54] McKinney responded that she opposes anti-Semitism. She added: "The people who made those remarks were not associated with my campaign in any formal way, and I want to make clear from this hour that any informal ties between me and my campaign and anyone holding or espousing such views are cut and renounced." She also said: "Anyone who makes blanket denunciations of Jews or 'the Jew' is certainly not a supporter of mine, not a staff member, not a consultant to, nor is welcome to be a volunteer in my campaign."


I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your little flame-war with facts or anything.

Sorry.

Flame on.
 
Nabb1
2008-02-26 2:37:13 PM  
absoluteparanoia: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your little flame-war with facts or anything.

Sorry.

Flame on.

Oh, well, thankfully she's just radically left, anti-capitalist, race baiting, reactionary, and batshiat crazy, but she's NOT anti-semetic. I see now that her candidacy will be giving the Green Party the legitimacy that Nader just couldn't bring to the table.
 
whidbey
2008-02-26 2:39:04 PM  
Trollbait, aside, WTF?

Why can't the Green Party like, act real'n'sh*t? Nobody wants to vote for that crazy b*tch, either.
 
Guy Innagorillasuit
2008-02-26 2:39:20 PM  
Pure bullshiat. The Green Party hasn't decided on its presidential candidate yet. We've been having caucuses and primaries leading up to the convention in July.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-02-26 2:39:27 PM  
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PurplePimpSaber
2008-02-26 2:40:07 PM  
BravadoGT: Radically left, anti-capitalist, anti-Semitic?

Sounds like the Green party has secured the Fark vote pretty nicely...

Bad troll! No cookie!
 
absoluteparanoia
2008-02-26 2:45:14 PM  
Nabb1: Oh, well, thankfully she's just radically left, anti-capitalist, race baiting, reactionary, and batshiat crazy

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Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-02-26 2:46:46 PM  
absoluteparanoia: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your little flame-war with facts or anything.

"McKinney alienated Jews by making what they allege were anti-Semitic remarks, taking donations from Arab organizations and showing support for Palestinians during a time of heightened homicide bombings by Palestinian terrorists in Israel."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,117018,00.html

" With relations already beginning to show signs of strain, an episode in
1994 heightened Jewish suspicions about McKinney. She refused to vote for a
congressional resolution condemning the anti-Semitic speeches of a
Farrakhan disciple, Khalid Muhammad. McKinney saw the vote as a threat to
freedom of speech, while her critics saw it as a blatant slap at the Jewish
community."

http://www.atljewishtimes.com/archives/1999/110599cs.htm

""Ms. McKinney is a racist and anti-Semite of the first rank. If she were white and male, she would be David Duke." -- Peter Swartz, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University

"Her hatred of Jews and the Bush Administration also apparently includes a hatred of white people here and abroad. Of Marxist President Robert Mugabe's racist policy of confiscating all white farms in Zimbabwe, McKinney said: "To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue - to return its land to its people.""

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1508
 
Shaggy_C
2008-02-26 2:48:52 PM  
Called it on Sunday...Talk about not getting a decent choice; if I could only choose between the two of them I'd be farking depressed.
 
Nabb1
2008-02-26 2:49:27 PM  
absoluteparanoia: [citation needed]

Oh, I'm sorry, just go to www.itsajokelightenupfrancis.com. I'd hate to think my internet jest caused damage to her Presidential bid. Heaven forbid that I question her sanity by her well-publicized actions.
 
Doggie McNugget
2008-02-26 2:50:41 PM  
A lot of her supporters are Truthers, which I think is where a lot of the bizarro AIPAC conspiracy stuff comes in. As nuts as she is, you can't really blame her too much for what her supports think.
 
BravadoGT
2008-02-26 3:00:49 PM  
Doggie McNugget: As nuts as she is, you can't really blame her too much for what her supports think.

Unless, of course, she courts said supporters as her base...

Prominent on that list include:

Hani Y. Awadallah - president, Arab American Civic Organization, New Jersey.

Jesse Aweida - co-founder, American Task Force on Palestine.

Belal Dalati - a vice president of Arab-American Broadcasting Co. (Orange County Register, February 19, 2002) associated with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Hasan Elkhatib -member, board of directors, American Islamic Educational Foundation (MetroWest Jewish News, October 10, 1996)

Yaser Elmenshawy - chairman, Islamic Council of New Jersey.

Rafeeq Jaber - president, Islamic Association for Palestine, a Hamas offshoot.

Oussama Jammal - president, Bridgeview Mosque.

Samer Khalaf - chairman, American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee's Political Outreach Committee in New Jersey.

Faroque Khan - president, Islamic Center of Long Island, also connected to the American Muslim Alliance and Islamic Society of North America.

Mahmoud A Nimer - member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa (an Islamic school established by Sami al-Arian; al-Arian's indictment indicates the school was used as a base of support for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad).

Ayman Osman - member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa; employer of Hatem Fariz, arrested on terrorism charges and charged with being a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Talat Othman - former chairman of the Islamic Free Market Institute; secretary/treasurer of the American Task Force on Palestine.

Khalid Qazi - former president, American Muslim Council of western New York State.

Hareth Raddawi - member, board of directors, American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, Chicago.

Allam Reheem - former member, board of directors, Islamic Academy of Florida, Tampa.

Talal Sunbulli - former chairman, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago.

James Zogby - president, Arab American Institute.

Source
 
absoluteparanoia
2008-02-26 3:11:17 PM  
SquirrelsOfDoom: "McKinney alienated Jews by making what they allege were anti-Semitic remarks, taking donations from Arab organizations and showing support for Palestinians during a time of heightened homicide bombings by Palestinian terrorists in Israel."

Heaven forbid we consider the difference between Palestinians and Palestinian terrorists. They're all murderers, right?

And our support for Israel should be unilateral and unwavering regardless of their human rights violations, yes?

Thanks for the the Fox News "fair & balanced" look at a marginal candidate.

" With relations already beginning to show signs of strain, an episode in
1994 heightened Jewish suspicions about McKinney. She refused to vote for a
congressional resolution condemning the anti-Semitic speeches of a
Farrakhan disciple, Khalid Muhammad. McKinney saw the vote as a threat to
freedom of speech, while her critics saw it as a blatant slap at the Jewish
community."

http://www.atljewishtimes.com/archives/1999/110599cs.htm

Has she voted to condemn other speeches made in the US? No? This is called Lying through omission.

""Ms. McKinney is a racist and anti-Semite of the first rank. If she were white and male, she would be David Duke." -- Peter Swartz, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
 
absoluteparanoia
2008-02-26 3:14:54 PM  
It cut off the bottom of my post.

""Ms. McKinney is a racist and anti-Semite of the first rank. If she were white and male, she would be David Duke." -- Peter Swartz, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University

Interesting that this Peter Swartz is not listed by Cornell, and indeed its next to impossible to prove that this person even exists.

SquirrelsOfDoom: "Her hatred of Jews and the Bush Administration also apparently includes a hatred of white people here and abroad. Of Marxist President Robert Mugabe's racist policy of confiscating all white farms in Zimbabwe, McKinney said: "To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue - to return its land to its people.""

Have you ever heard of "40 acres and a mule"?
 
Jubeebee [TotalFark]
2008-02-26 3:15:12 PM  
Apr1k0s is going to have a field day with this one.

Why do the third parties that espouse halfway sane ideals (Libertarian, Green) always attract the most raving lunatics in practice?
 
Karma Curmudgeon
2008-02-26 3:22:14 PM  
Jubeebee: Why do the third parties that espouse halfway sane ideals (Libertarian, Green) always attract the most raving lunatics in practice?

Because building a party is hard, menial, boring and thankless work. People think just because you want a new team to play, they can just jump right into the game. There's a helluvalot more to it than just trying to get some people together who want to vote for Wiggum or whoever.
 
Unright
2008-02-26 3:26:24 PM  
Jubeebee: Why do the third parties that espouse halfway sane ideals (Libertarian, Green) always attract the most raving lunatics in practice?

I suppose negative attention is still attention. If the Green Party were smart, they would win local/county/state positions in a place like Vermont and let their progress speak for themselves. Regional success first, then national.
 
Karma Curmudgeon
2008-02-26 3:28:07 PM  
(^ cont'd) So you half to start by using the most committed - some of whom should be - as they are the only ones willing to put in the long hours. Then, as the party grows in fits and starts, the new blood wants their say too. It's like herding cats just to get to the place where most people think it all starts: a name on a ballot.
 
QU!RK1019
2008-02-26 3:36:44 PM  
absoluteparanoia: Several pundits have accused her of making anti-Semitic statements, although without citing any specific quotations.

SquirrelsOfDoom: McKinney alienated Jews by making what they allege were anti-Semitic remarks...

Now I am curious if there actually is a specific quotatation.
 
Jubeebee [TotalFark]
2008-02-26 3:37:33 PM  
Karma Curmudgeon

That makes sense. The system does seem to favor the two established parties if only because of preexisting organization.

Unright

I think the Greens have a few seats in the House. If they kept focusing on that, you're right, they might gain some traction in places like New England and the Northwest.

I don't think I'll be seeing them in the Midwest any time soon though.
 
absoluteparanoia
2008-02-26 3:38:23 PM  
Unright: I suppose negative attention is still attention. If the Green Party were smart, they would win local/county/state positions in a place like Vermont and let their progress speak for themselves. Regional success first, then national.

The Progressive Party (^) would like a word with you. Even if you were right, the media would still ignore their success and they wouldn't receive the matching funds that the entrenched parties get today.

Media involvement has changed the game forever.
 
absoluteparanoia
2008-02-26 3:45:19 PM  
QU!RK1019: Now I am curious if there actually is a specific quotatation.

I haven't been able to find one that wasn't obvious hearsay.
 
xtex
2008-02-26 5:36:55 PM  
I'm so glad she's California's problem now.

/we kicked her out
 
the_chief
2008-02-26 5:42:16 PM  
Seriously, Nader needs his head examined.
 
fernt
2008-02-26 5:44:58 PM  
Nader, on "Meet the Press" simply farted in church (or should I say passed gas in synagogue) by mentioning the unmentionable: that the U.S. foreign policy vis a vis Israel is at odds with the interests of America.

Beyond that he's a lost cause and I wish he'd go away, although by now he won't draw any significant votes.

Perhaps his value, if any, will be to say the un-sayable, and that is ANYthing that brings to light the damage that our unyielding support for Israel does to us.

You can read all about it in the book I constantly reference and am attacked by doing so by people who haven't or refuse to read it.
 
moulderx1 [OhFark]
2008-02-26 5:46:40 PM  


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/just sayin'
 
annoyed_grunt
2008-02-26 5:46:56 PM  
absoluteparanoia:
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your little flame-war with facts or anything.

Sorry.

Flame on.

Yeah, the facts are she surrounds herself with anti-semites. Anyone normal that had heard that out of one of their contemporaries would have fired their ass a long time ago. She kept that dickhead on after not one, but two outbursts like that on public TV.

Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to interrupt you with facts or anything.
 
mycatisposter
2008-02-26 5:47:10 PM  
BravadoGT: Radically left, anti-capitalist, anti-Semitic?

Sounds like the Green party has secured the Fark vote pretty nicely...

Came here to say this.
This.
 
Hobodeluxe
2008-02-26 5:47:57 PM  
so if you accept Arab donations you're anti-semitic?
if you sympathize with the Palestinian people you're anti-semitic?

So what does that make those people? Anti Arab? Anti Muslim?

Is that why they keep emphasizing Barack HUSSEIN Ombama?

pot meet kettle
 
Facetious_Speciest
2008-02-26 5:48:46 PM  
I think you guys are missing the most important thing about McKinney...her diligent search for the truth about Tupac.

It is vitally important we all know the troof about Tupac. Sure, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Records Collection Act of 2005 fell through, but once she's president, we'll all find out what really happened...and why.
 
FunkOut
2008-02-26 5:49:31 PM  
Oh, good! Nader now can run for the Arab American Nostril Appreciation Party, the Patriotic Falafel Party, the Stop Smoking Eat Your Greens Buckle Your Seatbelt Party, Frank Zappa Is My Homeboy Party, Old Men Who Wear Brown Corduroy Party, or the Interfering Busybody Party.
 
gorgor
2008-02-26 5:49:47 PM  
One goes in yo mouf, and one blows yo ass up (new window)
 
kilgorn
2008-02-26 5:49:57 PM  
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These liberals....made my day
 
hockeyfarker
2008-02-26 5:50:11 PM  
Dear Ralph Nader,

You got 0.3% of the vote last time. What the fark are you doing? Moran.

Signed,

Everybody
 
pray.for.mojo
2008-02-26 5:51:43 PM  
If there's one thing I've learned on Fark, its that no matter how detestable an issue or person is, there is always someone rootin' for said issue or person. Be it trolls or morans.

/No one is perfect and this two party system sucks, but McKinney is one luny biatch.
 
BobNesta420
2008-02-26 5:52:05 PM  
Oh, Nader. What an attention whore you are. All you need is a gigantic pair of sunglasses and a chihuahua as an accessory and you'll fit right in with the others.
 
kbernardp
2008-02-26 5:52:40 PM  
McKinney might have an impact. She's got all the biatch of Hillary and all the black of Obama.
 
Nuuu [OhFark]
2008-02-26 5:52:56 PM  
Jubeebee: Why do the third parties that espouse halfway sane ideals (Libertarian, Green) always attract the most raving lunatics in practice?

Because the other half of a halfway sane idea is bat shiat crazy. It's a glass half-full/half-empty conundrum.
 
peachpicker
2008-02-26 5:53:07 PM  
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Danger Avoid Death
2008-02-26 5:53:13 PM  
Unelectable At Any Speed
 
Glass Joe
2008-02-26 5:53:53 PM  
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fernt
2008-02-26 5:53:55 PM  
Doggie McNugget: A lot of her supporters are Truthers, which I think is where a lot of the bizarro AIPAC conspiracy stuff comes in.

If there is a strong current of antisemitism in the 9/11 Truth movement I haven't seen it. Citations please? (Discounting the "Jews didn't show up for work at the Twin Towers because of an IM" stuff.)

While the Mossad certainly was monitoring the hijackers no credible truther source lays claim to an Israeli involvement in the planning and or execution of the attack that I've seen.
 
Pav
2008-02-26 5:54:26 PM  
BravadoGT: Radically left, anti-capitalist, anti-Semitic?

Sounds like the Green party has secured the Fark vote pretty nicely...
PurplePimpSaber
Bad troll! No cookie!


I thought that was a very lucid thought that BravadoGT had.

and funny.

/hehe
 
Jakevol2
2008-02-26 5:54:41 PM  
I thought Doug Stanhope was running as a member of the Green Party.
 
JohnBigBootay
2008-02-26 5:56:03 PM  
Karma Curmudgeon: Because building a party is hard, menial, boring and thankless work.

Oh bullshiat. The parties we have today weren't built by anyone alive today, let alone with hard, menial, boring and thankless work. There's thousands of people doing the same kind of goddamn work every single day canvassing and at the local level. They have about as much chance of building a national party that gets on the ballot on all 50 states as I do of becoming president. We vote Dem and Rep because it's what we were given by those before us - as the rules are written it's virtually impossible to get another choice on the ballot that has even the illusion of a chance.
 
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