wlotus | Cynthia McKinney on African Americans and the Democratic Party

I have said that my relationship with the Democratic party became even more like an abusive one when Obama and his supporters sneered at the half of the party which questioned his readiness for presidential office, effectively told us to drop our principles by ordering us to "get in line", and then acted as though they didn't need our votes anyway when we refused blind obedience to the party directive. (Sour grapes, anyone?) Cynthia McKinney, Green Party candidate for U.S. President, draws similar parallels to the other ways the party has forsaken one of its most loyal bases: the African American community.

I, for one, am glad to have ended that abusive relationship.