Saw Kucinich on Colbert last night.  Great appearance!  Colbert had him pull out his pocket constitution; asked him how he shrunk it down to pocket size.  Kucinich responded that he couldn’t take credit for shrinking the constitution because “George Bush already did that.”

One more Neocon regime is about to bite the dust! A federal election is being held in Australia November 24th and the Australian Republican equivalent, the Liberal-National coalition, is expected to lose power in a significant voter backlash.

That is despite relative wealth in the economy from a commodities boom. It has been badly managed and there is a housing crisis as a result. Also mirroring the US in social problems, the health sector is in crisis too as the consequence of a political war in which the opposing Labor Party (Democrats equivalent) is in power in all of the states.

Trixie, polls like the one you cite have not moved the positions of any of the corporate charletons who masquerade as Democrats.  The only way to make Kuninich’s policies are reality is to convey to voters that Mr. Kucinich and only Mr. Kucinich stands with them.  So long as we are taken in by the corporate media manipulation which separates candidates from the issues they represent, there will remain what Noam Chomsky refers to as a “democracy deficit.”  If people voted for the candidate whose shares their goals for this country, rather on superficial concerns such as the gender or race of the candidate, the price of the candidates haircut, or whom the media tells the electorate is the “leading” candidate, the democracy gap would close and Kucinich would win in a landslide.

While much of the responsibility rests with the propaganda network we call the corporate media, it also rests with each voter, each of whom has the civil responsility to stop being a passive consumer, to start actively seeking out where candidates stand on issues of substance and voting accordingly.

Just about everyone who has posted on this article has expressed a recognition that Kucinich, despite his physical stature, stands head and shoulders above the rest.  We need to keep at it; to inform our fellow citizens and to change the dynamic.  Hope lies within the grass roots.

Maid in Hawaii:  While I would be the first to agree that 9/11 warrants a full and fair investigation, for you to suggest bypassing the only candidate who truly represents the interests of the vast majority of the electorate—the middle and working classes—just because the may doesn’t see eye-to-eye on what “you” perceive needs to be done about 9/11 is exceedingly myopic.  And just what do you propose we do?  Vote for Hill-the-corporate-shill because Mr. Kucinich doesn’t agree with your take on 9/11?

He certainly knows how to pick a wife.
Is she the ‘perfect 10’?
WOW

The situation obviously demands of the Democratic electorate to get Dennis K nominated so he debates and runs against the republikan nominee (Rudy G.)

If “we the people” vote for him in the primaries and caucus for him, then the people get a true Democratic nominee.  Simple.  Not easy. 

Stay true Dennis!

I’m a young septuagenarian that left the hysteria (& high cost) of living in America BEFORE the tragic events of 9/11 and am living happily in northern Thailand…but still voting and hoping that America will somehow change its direction and start restoring its badly damaged reputation worldwide.  Two things would markedly help toward that end: IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY and elect Dennis Kucinich President! He is the only candidate that makes sense…and obviously has a good sense of humor! 
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Marvelous how we can get someone like Doug Chalmers, who pretends to be a Democrat yet tells us to ignore the fact that Hillary plans to continue the war in Iraq, that she recently voted for Kyle-Liebermann, opening the door for an attack on Iran, whose husband betrayed American labor by ramming NAFTA & the WTO through on the fast track—devices utilized by our economic elites to betray the nation by outsourcing our manufacturing base in search of the $2/day laborer but which permitted Wal-Mart, which did not have a single store outside the continental U.S. in 1991 but is now the world’s largest corporation and the greatest threat to middle class aspirations everywhere.  We are supposed to ignore that Hill-the-Shill served on the Wal Mart board; that she is the second largest recipient of health care insurance lobby monies—second only to George Bush and that her so-called “universal healthcare plan” is nothing more than a scheme designed to subsidize the healthcare insurance industry.

Here is Kucinich—the first candidate in years who truly represents the vast majority of the electorate, the middle and working classes, who would repeal NAFTA & the WTO, replacing them with bilateral trade agreements that respect workers’ rights and protect the environment, who has a detailed plan for an immediate end of the war in Iraq, forcing not only the troops but all contractors out, replacing them with an Arabic-speaking peace force under the aegis of the UN, giving Iraq, its oil and its economy back to the Iraqi people; a man prepared to take on the military-industrial complex; the only presidential candidate to support a single-payer healthcare reform that would eliminate the middlemen (for profit healthcare insurers and HMOs) which account for 31% of our spiraling healthcare costs and bringing this nation in line with the healthcare systems of every other industrialized nation where administrative costs run only 1% to 2%; Kucinich who would role back the monopoly power massive corporate conglomerates have obtained over our public airwaves because of the give-aways provided by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and who would restore the Fairness Doctrine.

Get serious, Doug!  Dennis Kucinich is the only true Democrat running for president.  All the rest, especially Hillary, are, at best, Republican-lite.  Kucinich is the last man the corporate media and the military industrial complex want to see elected as President.  That is precisely why the corporate media seeks to marginalize him while extolling Hill-the-Shill, who by the way in her youth was a registered Republican.  Yet you want to tell us that Republicans want us to vote for the one man who would restore the New Deal and the economic balance that gave rise to a viable middle class? 

Anyone with half a brain can see that Mr. Chalmer’s irrational reasons for supporting Hillary are utter rubbish!

Marvellous how you get so many Republicans telling you to vote for “the Vegan wood spirit” as long as it helps split the vote for Hillary.

It really is too bad Kucinich isn’t given more news time.  Why is that?  He’s not a freak, he makes sense, and he’s smart.  Even if he can’t win the nomination, wouldn’t it be great to see whomever does, he’s appointed to a high-level job in the White House.  He sure could add to any admin…...

Best campaign link:

http://www.dennis4president.com/

Kucinich is the only presidential candidate worthy of any consideration in the election, and I can’t wait to see him on my favorite show.  Get ready America, you are about to be “wow-ed.”