While Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama has previously rejected the idea of impeaching President George W. Bush and has not commented on Representative Dennis Kucinich's introduction of 35 articles of impeachment, Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has embraced the call. In a statement released last week, McKinney urged her supporters--and those of Senator Barack Obama--to demand hearings on impeachment:

"Each fact exhibited in Rep. Kucinich's 35 Articles of Impeachment is true beyond dispute, and each by itself is sufficient to demonstrate the need to remove this criminal President and his gang of thugs from the Executive Branch--not least of all because most if not all of the crimes are still ongoing.

But, as a Black woman from the South familiar with the struggle against discrimination and racism, I am moved most profoundly, in particular, by three of the Articles of Impeachment that I think serve to point out the real sickness of this regime -- the fact that for Blacks, for Latinos, for Native Americans, for all peoples of color, and for much of the white working class, democracy has never really existed in the United States, and that today the limited gains in the direction of "a more perfect Union" that were won in struggle two generations ago are now being reversed through the deliberate, illegal policies of the gang that has taken over the government. I'm referring to:

* Article 28--Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice;

* Article 29--Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965; and

* Article 31--Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency.

Therefore, I am hereby putting out an urgent call to all the progressive forces throughout this country--including first and foremost the democratic forces of the Black community, together with my supporters in the Green Party, organizers of the Reconstruction Party, and most especially Katrina survivors--to mobilize specifically around these three Articles."

Citing the fact that Senator Barack Obama was able to defeat the Democratic Party's establishment candidate, she says that a mobilization by "the people" calling for impeachment could succeed in demanding hearings on impeachment.

Thus far, most of the major media has ignored Kucinich's impeachment resolution.