More history has been made. We now have two black people running for president in the same year. Moonbat former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of suburban Atlanta has nabbed the coveted Green Party nomination for president.

McKinney, you might recall, is a favorite daughter of the 9/11 Truthers movement, which believes that the Bush/Cheney cabal let the attacks happen. Probably at the encouragement of THE JEWS! ... or some such, I really don't make it a point to keep up with that stuff.

She met her political waterloo when national attention came to bear on the hissy-fit she threw when a Capitol Police officer failed to recognize McKinney (because she was not wearing her Congressional pin) and asked her to go through a metal detector. She infamously punctuated her "don't you know who I am!" rampage by throwing her cell phone at the officer's chest. Oh, and she insisted that she was not recognized as an Important Person because she is black.

McKinney's record of moonbattery is extensive, and humorous — if not for the troubling fact that this nut-job actually held a position of high power in our government for years.

McKinney on Al Gore:

"Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time."

Nevermind that Gore's campaign manager was Donna Brazile, a black woman.

Of her congressional re-election defeat at the hands of another black politician.

"White, rich Democratic boys club wanted [her] to stay in the back of the bus."

On Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwean nightmare:

“To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.”

To Michael Chertoff during a Katrina hearing:

“Mr. Secretary, if the nursing home owners are arrested for negligent homicide, why shouldn't you also be arrested for negligent homicide?”

On the Bush cabal's possible (probable?) involvement in the 9/11 attacks.:

“I am not aware of any evidence showing that President Bush or members of his administration have personally profited from the attacks of 9-11. A complete investigation might reveal that to be the case.

On the overall government conspiracy against black people.

"Now, I did not write that; the U.S. Government wrote that. They were going to round up 21 million Negroes because they were afraid of freeing black people."

Yeah. Right. A question: When a party is so nutty that it dispatches Ralph Nader for McKinney, does it even warrant coverage on CNN?

UPDATE (JULY 18): I only now realized that I appear to be a bit of a Cynthia For President groupie. One of the first blog items I did when joining the monkeys in May of 2007 was on McKinney contemplating a Green Party run for president. And that old post has an even crazier picture.