FOR DEMOCRATS IN SEARCH OF A REAL PRESIDENTIAL ALTERNATIVE: MAYBE THIS TIME OUR DENNIS WILL CRACK DOUBLE DIGITS
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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again."--Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich (and former Cleveland mayor), at his House swearing-in in 1997—according to the AP he will announce tomorrow that he's running for president againt in 2008
"The liberal, anti-war Ohio congressman said he was inspired to run," reports the AP, "because he disagrees with the way some of his fellow Democrats are handling the war, including approval of a proposal to spend $160 billion more on the conflict.
"'Democrats were swept into power on November 7 because of widespread voter discontent with the war in Iraq,' said Kucinich, 60. 'Instead of heeding those concerns and responding with a strong and immediate change in policies and direction, the Democratic congressional leadership seems inclined to continue funding the perpetuation of the war.'"
The AP report also points out that Kucinich in his 2004 presidential bid "posted single digits in most primary elections, including his home state of Ohio."
posted by KenInNY @ 3:25 PM
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Watching Dennis is like watching some firebrand southern baptist preacher except he's preaching the virtues of representitive democracy. I'll always remember when during the '04 campaign he called for courage. Courage to stand up to the Bush administration. Courage to stand up to the international corporate interests who do not have our best interests in mind. Courage to be the kind of Americans we are called to be by our fore fathers.
Sadly most Americans never heard his call for courage. Maybe now they're ready to hear.
I am glad he is running. I might write more on this tomorrow.
There are lots of reasons. I am not sure he will win, but he will make the debate about more than drivel.
This post has nothing to do with this story. But it's important.
Tonight, I'm flipping through the television channels between the Bears football game when I catch sean hannity doing interviews in Iraq with our soldiers.
As he continued to divide America as he's so famously good at, he prodded over and over again for a response on John Kerry and what he had said about soldiers (even though we all know it was a joke gone awry), how liberals have politicized their existence in Iraq and thus, causing us to lose, etc.
As this blog site is in the hands of capable people who get noticed, this is a story that can't get lost.
For hannity to pretend that anything he said in Iraq is true, and for the people of America to allow it to happen, especially in the face of soldiers who are putting their lives on the line, is close to treason.
The Dixie Chicks were castized and beaten to a pulp by hannity and the rest of the neocon media for making truthful statements about bush while on foreign soil. hannity's hypocrisy and treasonous act of going to our soldiers while on duty in Iraq and suggesting that any American Senator is against the troops (which NONE are, dem or rep) and because of it, causing us to lose, should be answered with COMPLETE PUBLIC RIDICULE and then perhaps, a prison term for treason. Please friends, lets not let sean hannity off the hook on this one. He deserves ten fold the humiliation of Jane Fonda.
He told complete lies to our soldiers. He is an agent of a right wing media corporation, out to divide America for profit ratings and for a totally misguided and unwanted future for America. sean hannity has the right to speak to our soldiers but he has NO RIGHT to propagate lies in front of them and the viewing public.
once again, the post above is from Timcanhear. Somehow, for the second time, my post was misidentified as "anonymous".
Can somebody check that out please?
Most likely, Kucinich can't win. But he can shine a spotlight on the dialogue that needs to continue about the mess in Iraq.
Kucinich would make a good President, if he had the chance. But I think that he will have a better shot as John Edwards' or (should he run) Al Gore's running mate.
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