Reply #262: McKinney's career could be assessed as a lost opportunity. She has the

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brains and the ambition to attach herself to the traditions of civil liberties but the accurate read, IMO, is that she attaches herSELF to those traditions and in the process shrinks the traditions.

In true public service it is the self that is dissolved into the greater good.

McKinney's flip of that point to promote herself to such a degree is pre-adolescent. In an actual adult it's the equivalent of political road rage.

The woman could do a lot of good. But she isn't doing much of anything at all doing her righteous rage number.

A woman who is suffering in an abusive relationship and who is working 2 jobs to feed a child and whose boyfriend or husband is alcoholic needs a brainy, courageous, and effective advocate at the other end of a Call-for-Help line that she read off a 3 X 5 at the local laundry mat.

Cynthia McKinney does not speak for that woman. Cynthia McKinney speaks, most of the time, for Cynthia McKinney.