Guess who's back? Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, whom the Democratic voters of Georgia's Fourth District have made their nominee for November

* Guess who's back? Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, whom the Democratic voters of Georgia's Fourth District have made their nominee for November. McKinney, as you remember, has a smoldering history. A race-baiting conspiracy theorist, she accused President Bush of not warning New Yorkers about 9/11 because friends of his administration stood to profit from a terror war.

(This was Michael Moore-ism avant la lettre.) And when Rudy Giuliani rejected a gift of $10 million from a Saudi prince--because it looked a little like blood money--McKinney was all too happy to ask for it, slamming America's Middle East policy in the process. In 2002's Democratic primary, voters opted for the far saner Denise Majette. McKinney's father, a former Georgia state rep, blamed his daughter's loss on "J-E-W-S" (yes, he spelled it out). Congresswoman Majette decided to run for the Senate, which left that House seat open. McKinney will probably recapture it in November. We show our journalistic bias, if not our patriotism, when we say: At least she will be fun to watch.

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