{"article":{"id":57435,"heading":"Kucinich, Not The Front Runner – Yet Miles Ahead.","author":"builder123","created":"2003-05-15 23:49:14","modified":"2005-08-15 01:29:53","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:29:53","article":"

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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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". \r\n\r\nVoting 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.\r\n\r\nAdd 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.","author":"Don't vote it only encourages them","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-16 12:32:27","modified":"2003-05-16 12:32:27","fileurl":""},{"id":57472,"heading":"better than bush","article":"kucinich is definately the lesser of two evils, but allowing bush to maintain his control of this country is a dangerous idea. ","author":"blue","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-16 13:43:45","modified":"2003-05-16 13:43:45","fileurl":""},{"id":57473,"heading":"circus","article":"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.","author":"bigtop","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-16 14:10:05","modified":"2003-05-16 14:10:05","fileurl":""},{"id":57482,"heading":"Seig heil!","article":"Heil Bush!","author":"KOBE SBM","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-16 15:02:46","modified":"2003-05-16 15:02:46","fileurl":""},{"id":57485,"heading":"Hell's Circus","article":"These elections are all circuses.\r\nthe myth of representative democracy boils\r\ndown to 1 vote per dollar. A sickening cacophony\r\nof sounds bites, half truths and outright lies.\r\nIn other words, a carefully choreographed show.\r\nkinda like the academy awards night.\r\nThese total shams of the \u2018peoples\u2019 will\u2019 are just that.\r\nWhat will it take, besides endless war on enemies of our own\r\ncreation and martial law in a failing society with its\r\nshrinking quality of life, and diverted, destructive production to get the public pissed off instead of confused?\r\noh, BTW...\r\n\r\n9-11 WHAT INVESTIGATION ?\r\n\r\n\r\nP.S. Kill your TV before it kills you.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-16 15:06:59","modified":"2013-11-11 00:22:28","fileurl":""},{"id":57666,"heading":"Kucinich is still miles ahead...","article":"Check his \r\nhttp:\/\/www.house.gov\/kucinich\/\r\nhttp:\/\/www.bop2004.org\/dtaweb\/bop2004\/default.aspx\r\n\r\nSo 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.\r\n\r\nIs this something politicians should not be allowed to do?\r\n\r\nHe doesn't accept corporate campaign contributions.\r\n\r\nHe's for the people.\r\n\r\nGo Dennis!","author":"S.King","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-17 01:26:54","modified":"2003-05-17 01:26:54","fileurl":""},{"id":57914,"heading":"Let's run Buxh Admirer","article":"For the office.\r\nHe seems like a perfect candidate.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-18 12:13:38","modified":"2003-05-18 12:13:38","fileurl":""},{"id":57920,"heading":"if...","article":"If by some unexpected miracle the DEms nominate this ass to run, it will spell CERTAIN victory for Bush.\r\n\r\nThe 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.\r\n\r\nBy all means, please back this guy.","author":"fresca","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-18 13:27:20","modified":"2003-05-18 13:27:20","fileurl":""},{"id":57928,"heading":"yep","article":"Unfortunately, if this bunch is behind him his chances at nomination are virtually nill. \r\nConservatives 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.\r\nOur friends here comprise, oh...about...none of the American public. \r\n","author":"fresca","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-18 13:43:55","modified":"2003-05-18 13:43:55","fileurl":""},{"id":58040,"heading":"none?","article":"not even me?\r\ndamn, your right.\r\nwe are surrounded. The bullhorns outside tell me to give up\r\nbut my fingers caress the tacky linseed oil finish on the\r\nstock of my rifle. Sand bags three deep long for the\r\nmedium stuff, frag & thermal perimeter flags out and holding to deadman switch.\r\nHope I don't have to use the scalar stuff. The neighbors\r\nhate that.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 06:55:09","modified":"2003-05-19 06:55:09","fileurl":""},{"id":58041,"heading":"oh, wrong thread","article":"I apologize, carry on with your drivel...\r\noh....uh, way to go, Dennis.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-19 07:02:25","modified":"2003-05-19 07:02:25","fileurl":""},{"id":59032,"heading":"DON'T MOURN MEDIA COVERAGE, ORGANIZE!","article":"Many Kucinich for President activists have complained about how mass media \r\nmarginalize our candidate, belittle our chances, attack our policies. The \r\ncomplaints are valid, but such coverage is exactly what we expected. Given \r\ntheir bias and boosterism on the war, one could hardly expect these same \r\noutlets to fully and fairly cover the presidential candidate who led antiwar \r\nopposition in Congress. \r\n\r\nThe Kucinich campaign is no ordinary campaign; it is a movement campaign. \r\nThe mainstream media are not going to be any friendlier to us than to the \r\nmovements that animate our campaign: peace, labor, environmental, family \r\nfarm, consumer rights and every civil rights movement for equality and \r\ndignity. \r\n\r\nKucinich supporters have to be brave enough to keep building, recruiting and \r\norganizing our grassroots campaign without validation from mainstream media. \r\n"Don't count on the mainstream media to lead a social revolution," a former \r\nNew York Times reporter once said. "They won't even know about it for six \r\nmonths."(In Seattle in 1999, when Kucinich joined thousands of labor and \r\nenvironmental activists in protesting the WTO, no group was caught more \r\noff-guard by events than mainstream media.) \r\n\r\nWe will of course continue fighting for access to mass media forums, reaching \r\nout to conscientious journalists who work in the mainstream, and responding to \r\nmedia attacks (often with your help\/ see bottom) -- but our strategy must rely \r\nin the coming months mostly on grassroots organizing, plus independent, \r\nalternative outlets and the Internet. \r\n\r\nLet's face it: as a result of deregulation that Dennis Kucinich has long opposed, today's \r\nmedia are dominated by huge conglomerates. The three cable TV news channels \r\nare now right, righter and rightist, and conservatives dominate opinion shaping from \r\nradio and TV talkshows to syndicated columnists. Outlets formerly seen as "liberal," \r\nincluding public broadcasting, are corporatized, timid or both, and the spectrum of \r\nmass media opinion typically extends from GE to GM. U.S. coverage of the war was \r\ndenounced worldwide, even by the head of the BBC, as sanitized and propagandistic. \r\n\r\nGiven the narrowing center-right media spectrum, when Dennis Kucinich proposes \r\ncommon-sense programs that are popular with most Democrats, and often most \r\nAmericans -- national health insurance, ending unfair trade treaties, returning \r\nSocial Security's retirement age to 65, cutting the bloated military budget, \r\nreversing a reckless foreign policy to conform with international law and \r\ntreaties -- he is deemed beyond the pale by elite punditry. \r\n\r\nTo mainstream pundits, Lieberman has "serious" foreign policy views... because \r\nthey're so indistinguishable from Bush's. Gephardt has a "bold" health plan... \r\nbecause it keeps the private insurance bureaucracy in the center of healthcare. \r\nDean is the "peace candidate"... because of a shallow critique, free of any talk \r\nabout cutting a military budget that almost equals the military spending of \r\nall other countries combined. \r\n\r\nDue to the grassroots nature of the Kucinich campaign and late start, our \r\nfundraising and organizational apparatus are just getting going. Both will \r\nbe upgraded in the next months. While mainstream media may take note of that, \r\nwe should not count on mass media to legitimize a progressive campaign that \r\n-- unlike those of Dean and Gephardt and Kerry -- seeks to transform the \r\npolicies of the Democratic Party and the nation. \r\n\r\nThe insurgent campaigns of Jesse Jackson in '88 and Jerry Brown in '92 got \r\nlittle help from mainstream media and a lot of ridicule -- but they persevered \r\nin spite of media attacks, and rocked the political process. \r\n\r\nIn recent weeks, Kucinich has been attacked by leading conservative commentators \r\nand operatives -- including George Will and Mary Matalin. This is good news. \r\nLet's keep building, recruiting, fundraising, organizing in Iowa and elsewhere, \r\nand we'll earn more such attacks! \r\n\r\nBut don't count on the mainstream media to help us build a movement to transform \r\nthe party and country. They won't even know about it for six months... until we \r\nrise up in the Iowa caucuses come January. \r\n\r\n*** \r\nSpread the word about the Kucinich campaign [http:\/\/www.kucinich.us] \r\n\r\nContribute to the Kucinich campaign [https:\/\/www.kucinich.us\/contribute.php] \r\n\r\nCheck out our new web feature 'Responses to Media' \r\n[http:\/\/www.kucinich.us\/responses_media.htm], and join our effort to challenge \r\nbiased coverage. \r\n\r\nIf you would like to be removed from this mail list please click here: \r\nhttp:\/\/www.kucinich.us\/email\/manage.php?key=ttcPwshBmoTp \r\n\r\n","author":"S.King","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-22 19:57:58","modified":"2003-05-22 19:57:58","fileurl":""},{"id":59034,"heading":"Kucinich","article":"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.","author":"brigg","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-22 20:05:27","modified":"2003-05-22 20:05:27","fileurl":""},{"id":59037,"heading":"What Kucinich stands for","article":"Yep, Brigg, and the hilarious thing is that many of these clowns actually think Kucinich is a viabble candidate :-)\r\n\r\nWhat 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. \r\n\r\nIn 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. \r\n\r\nHe's a tax and squander liberal in the mold of Al Gore. The guy's a joke.","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-22 20:41:09","modified":"2003-05-22 20:41:09","fileurl":""},{"id":59039,"heading":"What Kucinich stands for","article":"Yep, Brigg, and the hilarious thing is that many of these clowns actually think Kucinich is a viabble candidate :-)\r\n\r\nWhat 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. \r\n\r\nIn 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. \r\n\r\nHe's a tax and squander liberal in the mold of Al Gore. The guy's a joke.","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-05-22 20:41:09","modified":"2003-05-22 20:41:09","fileurl":""},{"id":62389,"heading":"Bush Admirer","article":"I'm even less than zero. You'll still buy my tripe-filled books, though.","author":"Ann Coulter","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-06 14:01:50","modified":"2003-06-06 14:01:50","fileurl":""},{"id":63963,"heading":"Is Kucinch legit?","article":"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.","author":"Jeffrey O.","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-09 22:55:10","modified":"2003-06-09 22:55:10","fileurl":""},{"id":64006,"heading":"Kucinich is the coolest man in America","article":"I think Kucinich is a refreshing alternative \u2014 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\u2019s power company, which he insisted belonged to the people and wasn\u2019t his to sell.\r\n\r\nAmericans are fearful right now and the bush admin is prying on those fears. McCarthyism has come back to haunt Americans. We\u2019re losing what\u2019s dear to our country. We have a foreign policy that\u2019s 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\u2019s illegal Iran-Contra deals. \r\n\r\nAmerica 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 \u201ccreate a Department of Peace\u201d, a pro-labour environmentalist who marched in the streets of Seattle and Washington DC and a vegan who believes in \u201cthe sacredness of all living creatures\u201d and wants the inhumanity of factory farming to stop. In Kucinich\u2019s own words . \u201cI\u2019ll 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.\u201d\r\n\r\nBritt Collin, London, UK\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Britt","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-10 09:14:50","modified":"2013-11-11 00:23:03","fileurl":""},{"id":64010,"heading":"Mr","article":"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","author":"Chris Brock","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2003-06-10 09:50:13","modified":"2003-06-10 09:50:13","fileurl":""},{"id":64013,"heading":"nice one","article":"very nice, yes sir. thank you Chris.\n waiting for my good family to join me down here. \nme 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.","author":"lurker from hell","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-10 10:18:56","modified":"2003-06-10 10:18:56","fileurl":""},{"id":64014,"heading":"hmmmmmmm","article":"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.","author":"let's see here","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-10 10:25:33","modified":"2003-06-10 10:25:33","fileurl":""},{"id":64296,"heading":"Kucinich Coming to LA","article":"Saturday June 14th\r\nTaft High School\r\n5461 Winnetka Ave at Ventura Blvd\r\n11:00 to 12:15","author":"builder123","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-12 00:13:27","modified":"2003-06-12 00:13:27","fileurl":""},{"id":64314,"heading":"Taft High School?","article":"So, is he coming to get his diploma, or what?","author":"Jacques","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-12 01:29:47","modified":"2003-06-12 01:29:47","fileurl":""},{"id":64487,"heading":"He'll Be Speaking","article":"Seats are limited. \r\nRSVP ASAP 323-655-6618\r\n\r\ndidn't mean to be cryptic -- my bad.","author":"builder123","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-13 10:17:49","modified":"2003-06-13 10:17:49","fileurl":""},{"id":74857,"heading":"Mr","article":"BUSH FEARS KUCINICH--LIBERATE AMERICA--VOTE KUCINICH!","author":"Gary Head","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-28 02:35:34","modified":"2003-07-28 02:35:34","fileurl":""},{"id":74869,"heading":"Kucinich","article":"Suppose we had 5 candidates running for President (5 different parties) as follows:\r\n\r\nKucinich\r\nGW Bush\r\nTom Delay\r\nAl Sharpton\r\nAnn Coulter\r\n\r\nBush would win by a landslide with the other candidates finishing in the following order: Delay, Coulter, Sharpton, Kucinich.","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":57435,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-28 09:32:40","modified":"2003-07-28 09:32:40","fileurl":""}]}