Dennis Kucinich has always been a huge favorite with progressives around the country as well as conservative constituents back in Ohio. Whether fighting to save Cleveland’s publicly owned utility or rallying fellow Democrats to oppose an illegal war, Kucinich seems bound by principal. Articulating his platform isn’t a problem, having the money to be heard is. Success in the early primaries will be vital if this breath of fresh air is to become the winds of change.

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Dennis Kucinch with Iraq mother and school teacher Um Haider. One son was killed in Gulf War 1 and another injured in the recent U. S. bombing campaign.

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Kucinich should not be backed by progressives. The illusion that Democrats are any better than Republicans is easily squashed when one looks at the current criticisms of the Bush regime: attacking foreign countries, neo-liberal trade policies, attacking the poor, enhancing the "security" apparatus of the Sate. Now go back and look at the record of the Clinton administration: attacked and bombed Sudan, Yugoslavia, Somalia, (continued the occupation of Vieques), introduced the FISA (precursor to Patriot Act), introduced "welfare reform".

Voting for someone to make change is an illusion. The only difference between the two parties is that the lies they tell to get elected are different.

Add to this that Kucinich has a long history of being anti-abortion and it results in DO NOT VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS. DO NOT VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICANS.

kucinich is definately the lesser of two evils, but allowing bush to maintain his control of this country is a dangerous idea.

Kucinich, Braun, and Sharpton are nothing but sideshow acts. The other sorta offer consideration. It's going to be between Leiberman and Kerry. And baring any unforseen circumstances, neither of them will defeat Bush.

Heil Bush!

These elections are all circuses.
the myth of representative democracy boils
down to 1 vote per dollar. A sickening cacophony
of sounds bites, half truths and outright lies.
In other words, a carefully choreographed show.
kinda like the academy awards night.
These total shams of the ‘peoples’ will’ are just that.
What will it take, besides endless war on enemies of our own
creation and martial law in a failing society with its
shrinking quality of life, and diverted, destructive production to get the public pissed off instead of confused?
oh, BTW...

9-11 WHAT INVESTIGATION ?


P.S. Kill your TV before it kills you.

Check his
http://www.house.gov/kucinich/
http://www.bop2004.org/dtaweb/bop2004/default.aspx

So he changes he postion sometimes... more for the people and NOT for the corporations and those who wish to take away our freedoms in violation of the U.S. Constituion and women's rights means he's learning and evolving.

Is this something politicians should not be allowed to do?

He doesn't accept corporate campaign contributions.

He's for the people.

Go Dennis!

For the office.
He seems like a perfect candidate.

If by some unexpected miracle the DEms nominate this ass to run, it will spell CERTAIN victory for Bush.

The midterm elections showed that thecountry is tired of inneffectual liberalism. Runnning a candidate that amplifies that very trait would be akin to Bush running unopposed.

By all means, please back this guy.

Unfortunately, if this bunch is behind him his chances at nomination are virtually nill.
Conservatives aren't the only ones who consider the typical views around here to be nonsense. Even the vast majority of those who consider themselves liberal would read this catalogue of pathology and cringe.
Our friends here comprise, oh...about...none of the American public.

not even me?
damn, your right.
we are surrounded. The bullhorns outside tell me to give up
but my fingers caress the tacky linseed oil finish on the
stock of my rifle. Sand bags three deep long for the
medium stuff, frag & thermal perimeter flags out and holding to deadman switch.
Hope I don't have to use the scalar stuff. The neighbors
hate that.

I apologize, carry on with your drivel...
oh....uh, way to go, Dennis.

Many Kucinich for President activists have complained about how mass media
marginalize our candidate, belittle our chances, attack our policies. The
complaints are valid, but such coverage is exactly what we expected. Given
their bias and boosterism on the war, one could hardly expect these same
outlets to fully and fairly cover the presidential candidate who led antiwar
opposition in Congress.

The Kucinich campaign is no ordinary campaign; it is a movement campaign.
The mainstream media are not going to be any friendlier to us than to the
movements that animate our campaign: peace, labor, environmental, family
farm, consumer rights and every civil rights movement for equality and
dignity.

Kucinich supporters have to be brave enough to keep building, recruiting and
organizing our grassroots campaign without validation from mainstream media.
"Don't count on the mainstream media to lead a social revolution," a former
New York Times reporter once said. "They won't even know about it for six
months."(In Seattle in 1999, when Kucinich joined thousands of labor and
environmental activists in protesting the WTO, no group was caught more
off-guard by events than mainstream media.)

We will of course continue fighting for access to mass media forums, reaching
out to conscientious journalists who work in the mainstream, and responding to
media attacks (often with your help/ see bottom) -- but our strategy must rely
in the coming months mostly on grassroots organizing, plus independent,
alternative outlets and the Internet.

Let's face it: as a result of deregulation that Dennis Kucinich has long opposed, today's
media are dominated by huge conglomerates. The three cable TV news channels
are now right, righter and rightist, and conservatives dominate opinion shaping from
radio and TV talkshows to syndicated columnists. Outlets formerly seen as "liberal,"
including public broadcasting, are corporatized, timid or both, and the spectrum of
mass media opinion typically extends from GE to GM. U.S. coverage of the war was
denounced worldwide, even by the head of the BBC, as sanitized and propagandistic.

Given the narrowing center-right media spectrum, when Dennis Kucinich proposes
common-sense programs that are popular with most Democrats, and often most
Americans -- national health insurance, ending unfair trade treaties, returning
Social Security's retirement age to 65, cutting the bloated military budget,
reversing a reckless foreign policy to conform with international law and
treaties -- he is deemed beyond the pale by elite punditry.

To mainstream pundits, Lieberman has "serious" foreign policy views... because
they're so indistinguishable from Bush's. Gephardt has a "bold" health plan...
because it keeps the private insurance bureaucracy in the center of healthcare.
Dean is the "peace candidate"... because of a shallow critique, free of any talk
about cutting a military budget that almost equals the military spending of
all other countries combined.

Due to the grassroots nature of the Kucinich campaign and late start, our
fundraising and organizational apparatus are just getting going. Both will
be upgraded in the next months. While mainstream media may take note of that,
we should not count on mass media to legitimize a progressive campaign that
-- unlike those of Dean and Gephardt and Kerry -- seeks to transform the
policies of the Democratic Party and the nation.

The insurgent campaigns of Jesse Jackson in '88 and Jerry Brown in '92 got
little help from mainstream media and a lot of ridicule -- but they persevered
in spite of media attacks, and rocked the political process.

In recent weeks, Kucinich has been attacked by leading conservative commentators
and operatives -- including George Will and Mary Matalin. This is good news.
Let's keep building, recruiting, fundraising, organizing in Iowa and elsewhere,
and we'll earn more such attacks!

But don't count on the mainstream media to help us build a movement to transform
the party and country. They won't even know about it for six months... until we
rise up in the Iowa caucuses come January.

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The most fun we could have with Kucinich in the race is to get up a pool and place bets on which primary he'll be in last before he finally drops out.

Yep, Brigg, and the hilarious thing is that many of these clowns actually think Kucinich is a viabble candidate :-)

What Kucinich stands for is the dutiful conifscation of other people's money which he then proposes to squander on an ever increasing list of government run entitlement programs.

In San Francisco the homeless people are paid monthly salaries by the taxpayer. With Kucinich in the White House that sort of nonsense could be extended nationwide.

He's a tax and squander liberal in the mold of Al Gore. The guy's a joke.

Yep, Brigg, and the hilarious thing is that many of these clowns actually think Kucinich is a viabble candidate :-)

What Kucinich stands for is the dutiful conifscation of other people's money which he then proposes to squander on an ever increasing list of government run entitlement programs.

In San Francisco the homeless people are paid monthly salaries by the taxpayer. With Kucinich in the White House that sort of nonsense could be extended nationwide.

He's a tax and squander liberal in the mold of Al Gore. The guy's a joke.

I'm even less than zero. You'll still buy my tripe-filled books, though.

Total Nuclear disarmament? A peaceful future? To have a presidential candadate utter such things seems to me to be impossible. But I will stand behind anyone who has the courage to envision a world without war, regardless of what he looks like.

I think Kucinich is a refreshing alternative — exactly what America and the rest of the world needs now. Kucinich is more of a visionary than another standard-issue politician. He is a rarity: he is dazzlingly erudite and one of the most ethical and courageous individuals in American politics today. Throughout his entire career he seems to have been motivated by principal, doing the right thing. He even sacrificed his political career as mayor by standing up to the banks and refusing to sell Cleveland’s power company, which he insisted belonged to the people and wasn’t his to sell.

Americans are fearful right now and the bush admin is prying on those fears. McCarthyism has come back to haunt Americans. We’re losing what’s dear to our country. We have a foreign policy that’s setting the stage for new wars. If you want to know more about the corrupt, greedy Bush family see www.bushbodycount.com to see how many people Bush has had KILLED, writers, critics and others who try to expose the truth about Bush’s illegal Iran-Contra deals.

America desperately needs someone like Kucinich. A follower of Ghandi and Dr Martin Luther King Jr, he is also an advocate of non-violence who is pressing the US government to “create a Department of Peace”, a pro-labour environmentalist who marched in the streets of Seattle and Washington DC and a vegan who believes in “the sacredness of all living creatures” and wants the inhumanity of factory farming to stop. In Kucinich’s own words . “I’ll be there on the side of workers, on the side of the animals and the environment, on the side of human rights and fair trade. I want to bring back the old-time Democratic values.”

Britt Collin, London, UK

Yes I can see how using the American working man and woman's tax money to help homeless people is a lot less sensible than using it to fund tax cuts for bloated, greedy, rich corporations and their cohort of incompetent and often fraudulent directors. I can't believ you guys ever even voted for Bush...oh, I forgot, you didn't

very nice, yes sir. thank you Chris.
waiting for my good family to join me down here.
me and the tortured others down here have made a spot for The rest of our Bushes to burn. We have all the time in the world to wait. It will be worth it.

president Kucinich, say it in your head cause thats the only place your ever going to actually here it. It's too european of a name and for this reason alone will prevent him from ever being president. sad but true. plus he's pretty goofy looking. if you add it all up then you'll understand. These are the rules and I didn't make them.

Saturday June 14th
Taft High School
5461 Winnetka Ave at Ventura Blvd
11:00 to 12:15

So, is he coming to get his diploma, or what?

Seats are limited.
RSVP ASAP 323-655-6618

didn't mean to be cryptic -- my bad.

BUSH FEARS KUCINICH--LIBERATE AMERICA--VOTE KUCINICH!

Suppose we had 5 candidates running for President (5 different parties) as follows:

Kucinich
GW Bush
Tom Delay
Al Sharpton
Ann Coulter

Bush would win by a landslide with the other candidates finishing in the following order: Delay, Coulter, Sharpton, Kucinich.