Cheer up, one and all!

Now you will likely have the ability to vote for authentic change, and change history as you do it!

Last weekend, the Green Party of the US nominated Cynthia McKinney to run as their endorsed candidate for POTUS.

McKinney was the first African American woman to represent Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives. This former Democrat served six terms in Congress before losing her 2006 bid for re-election. She will be noted in the annals of history as the first African American woman in Presidential history to represent a major party in pursuit of the highest office in the nation.

She stands on the shoulders of several other notable African American women candidates: Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (1972), Dr. Isabelle Masters (1984, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004), Leonora B. Fulani (1988 and 1992) and Senator Carole Moseley Braun (2004).

As delegates and supporters waved \"Paint the White House Green\" signs, McKinney declared, \"I am asking you to vote your conscience, vote your dreams, vote your future, vote Green.\"

Resolutely anti-war and anti-imperialist, firmly committed to defending individual liberties and determined to hold the outgoing president and vice president to account – as a member of the House in 2006, McKinney introduced the first articles of impeachment against President Bush – McKinney is an ardent advocate for national health care, expanded education spending and energy policies that emphasize mass transportation and conservation rather than rewarding oil-company profiteering.

And, as she notes, \"I have a record of standing up on all of these issues.\"

It is that record, and her willingness to stand on it, that distinguishes McKinney from Democrat Obama and Republican John McCain, both of whom are being accused of changing positions in order to reposition their campaigns for November.

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