Paper Questions Why Cynthia McKinney is Running

Former Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney is seeking the Green Party nomination for president and Jeffry Scott of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution asks why. Come on Scottie, why does anyone run for president? They have a message they want to share. You seem to be upset because her campaign refuses to talk to you or any of the other "so-called mainstream media." Perhaps not the smartest thing to do, but it does hurt your feelings, doesn't it?

Long a political lightning rod, McKinney has long inspired loyalty and derision — never indifference.

Now that she's on a one-in-a-trillion quest for the White House — to replace the man she notoriously suggested might have had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks — the obvious question is: Why?

The 2004 Green Party presidential candidate, after all, got about 100,000 of more than 121 million cast. That's less than half of 1 percent.

McKinney isn't saying why, at least not to reporters. She declined several interview requests by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.