By Brian Carnell

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney earned herself an all-but-certain return to the U.S. House of Representatives after defeating her opponent in the Democratic primary. McKinney is running in an overwhelmingly Democratic district, and the odds of her Republican opponent prevailing are about as likely as the Cubs winning the World Series this year.

So McKinney has been interviewed and quoted by all the usual suspects, from CNN to Amy Goodman.

The odd thing is that McKinney is still the only politician of national stature who has openly supported and endorsed Robert Mugabe's dictatorial regime in Zimbabwe, and yet outside of a handful of right wing web sites, you'd never know this.

This is especially odd given how much further downhill Zimbabwe has progressed in the two years since McKinney left office. Mugabe's current plan appears to be to intentionally force starvation on his political opponents by turning down food aid that his country is in desperate need of. Does McKinney still think Mugabe is simply the victim of racist Westerners engaged in a campaign of deceit against him?

Apparently such questions just aren't that interesting.

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