Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney Seeks Presidency as Green Party Nominee

Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney is now seeking the Green Party presidential nomination. McKinney is among the most outspoken critics of the Bush administration, and one of her last measures in office was to introduce a bill for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. She joins Democracy Now! to talk about her new campaign and why she left the Democratic Party after more than a decade in public office. [includes rush transcript]

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Edwards’ Withdrawl is America’s Loss

America just lost its best and brightest hope for real change when John Edwards gave up the presidential ghost. Edwards did something that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and certainly none of the Republicans would dream of doing: He made poverty no longer a dirty word in the mouths of many, and that included Clinton and Obama, for a minute anyway.

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