KW: This is a repost from my onthewilderside co-blogger Ian Wilder.
Cindy Sheehan:Â If any American “politician” got the Nobel Peace Prize, it should have been Cynthia McKinney
Cindy Sheehan from Facebook:
I wonder if the Nobel Committee looked at the videos of the G20 protests in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago when the US stormtroopers were hunting down protesters like dogs and beating them and teargassing grandmas (me) without provocation. If any American “politician” got the NPP [ed: Nobel Peace Prize], it should have been Cynthia McKinney.
Bob Barr voted for the wars. McKinney, Nader, Paul and Baldwin deserve kudos for their genuine anti-war stances.
As a libertarian, I’m always a little skeptical of left wing statists who are for peace abroad, but want the guns of the state turned on their own people through control of the economy, health care, etc. but I’d endorse McKinney for the Peace Prize if it were awarded to her jointly along with Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Ralph Nader, and Chuck Baldwin for their stance against the war parties.
The whistleblower who criticized the UN for not investigating election fraud in Afghanistan would also be a good choice as would the Iranian protesters.
the name Medea should be the first clue 🙂 just kidding
I probably should have known that Medea Benjamin was no good. But I thought that someone who spends so much time protesting war would come around to the same sort of realizations that Cynthia McKinney did – peace will never come from the Washington corporate duopoly.
Now I’m glad that Benjamin left the Green Party – she can go ahead and discredit her own organization, and we Greens will continue to stand strong against the wars.
Cory Quirk, Doctor Donald J. Grundmann, others just ‘making it up as they go along’ …..
The #&%@%$# Democans and Republicans are snickering all the way to 2010 ……….
left dying on the hosptal floors out of incubators , which was nothing but lies
Right … ‘do it for the women’ sounds as disingenuous as ‘do it for the children ‘ or some other emotional argument not grounded in what is actually right.
lets not forget how we were told babies were dying on the grounds of hosptals as 1 of the reasons for the 1st Iraq war.
its time to come home
Erik, what Benjamin is doing is disgusting. If she isn’t anti-war, she should just step down, not lead a famous anti-war group in the pro-war direction. It discredits the whole movement – and we are out there, and we are willing to hold Obama accountable!
Michael/Ross:
An article on that very topic:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/10/08/code-yellow/
Excuse me while I laugh uncontrollably.
Ross Levin, IMO Obama was picked along with a few others like Deval Patrick as a liberal by Kennedy & Kerry. Sponsoring them up artificially to where they never would get otherwise, US Senate, Mass. governor. Then making very certain he was still a liberal-not radicalized-Keynote speaker at Dem. convention 2004. Then endorsed 2007/8 after HE announced. Making sure Kennedy & Kerry were NOT at announcement. So he’s definitely a liberal democrat. Kennedy wanted a return of a liberal democrat to the Presidency. By manipulating progressive/anti-war support-Progressives for Obama- & adding the vote black because you are black vote, Obama secured the nomination. & just about any democrat who got the nomination after Bush would win. Kennedy made sure it was Obama. So that explains your present observations. Anti-war progressives are disappointed. Liberals & democrats are not going to criticize.
I think the anti-war movement, at least from what I’ve seen, has been pretty solid in saying that Obama doesn’t deserve the prize. Liberals and Democrats, on the other hand… not so much.
Kim
Could not agree more. The question is, does the “peace” community have the moral and political courage and integrity to protest Obama the war criminal? Or were they just protesting republicans but will happily accept any democrat war?
Very serious question and only time will tell.
Kimberly Wilder- Yes!!!!
This is a golden [P2008 style] opportunity for high profile protest. [Yet another situation to blow ????]
New Federalist…
LOL!!!!!
(You were joking, right?)
Um, I’m not sure I would go that far to say Cynthia McKinney deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. But Obama certainly doesn’t.
Nah… it should have been John Edwards!