From the Heart of Texas where we know Dennis well and prefer him to George W. Bush who was never popular enough in Austin to win a citywide race for dogcatcher - We tried to warn the world that George W. Bush should never be elected president and no one listened or let’s say not enough people listened to put the race out of reach of their election fraud tactics.  So George W. Bush ascended to office on the strength of the black vote...Clarence Thomas. I know neocons sneer at a Department of Peace and the implication it will in time starve their beast but consider that we started with a Department of War, and guess what we got?  We renamed it to “Defense” which still implied war and guess what we got?  We seem to be adept at getting what we set out to get.  So not to wax to John Lennonish but IMAGINE what could happen if we actually set out to get “peace”, to resolve conflict, to help others, instead of conquering and exploiting them for the sake of exceedingly narrow “U.S. interests”, a euphemism for the men in the shadows who can be counted on to sell us our wars and religions the same way they sell us our cars, as Jackson Browne once said.  Dennis did quite well and was running 2nd in the primary well ahead of John Who? and just behind the now vindicated Howard 50 States Dean until he made a fatal mistake.  He had the nerve, the gaul, the temerity to speak honestly about media consolidation.  From that point on he was given less than 1% of the media coverage and then only to paint him as a “vanity” candidate while a known GOP dirty trickster personally bankrolled Al Sharpton in order to upstage Dennis and dilute his message.  As a delegate to the Texas State Democratic Convention let me tell you I have never in my life heard a better more inspiring political speech not even in the days of John Kennedy than Dennis Kucinich gave.  He upstaged John Edwards and we had Kerry delegates jumping up and down yelling “why didn’t anyone tell us about this guy!  This is what we want!” And with that energy we did what no one thought possible in Texas, we passed a resolution calling for formation of a real Department of Peace.  We called for the leader of the free world to spend some portion of its allegedly vast resources on building an infrastructure for conflict resolution.  And as everyone knows we Americans can build anything we set our minds to.  Don’t dismiss it as silly hippy warm fuzzies or sell it short as new age hokum and do consider the gaping maw of nuclear/chemical/biological destruction we now stare into, the abyss of world domination by theocratic corporate feudalsim.  The only thing George W. Bush is afraid of is the same thing his father was afraid of, 5 million citizens in the streets of DC and a military so torn it will not fire on its own families.  The last time around many people thought well even so how bad could it be?  That was before George W. Bush, the Republican Party and 10 Democratic Senators overturned The Magna Carta.  We now live in what the University of Chicago neocons consciously set out to build, a presidential dictatorship which this year ranks 53rd in the world in FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.  We have all the 14 hallmark characteristics of fascism rampant (hit the Internets and use The Google if you doubt it.  This is what happens to democracies that fail.  They descend into fascism, an age old contrivance for the few to hold power over the many. It didn’t die in WWII when Prescott Bush was busy supporting it so strongly he had 5 businesses seized by the US government for trading with the enemy all the way through WWII.  And we didn’t heed the chilling words “military industrial complex” inserted into Eisenhower’s farewell address by John McCain’s father (who must now be on spin cycle). So quit worrying about bacon and silly ass power rankings or your local congressman’s ability to bring home the earmarks and start worrying about the complete demise of democracy and world wide eco destruction leading to agricultural collapse and famines much less resource wars.  We need every single Dennis Kucinich this world can produce and we need them now on the world stage.

Kucinich is a REAL Democrat, not like the do-nothing, Bush ass-licking, republican-wannabe corporate shills that make up the majority of the party. I sure wish there were more like him.

Dennis,

We’re behind you 100 %. Thanks for carrying on the good fight.

David & Marilyn Lucier

Dear Mr Kucinich,
A sticker with your name has been enhancing the back of my truck since before the 2004 elections. I raised my voice against a Bush war even before 9/11 and was quite active after 9/11 to expose the lies about WMD etc. to stop the insanity of an attck on Iraq.
Your sticker still is present on my truck and I get again positive comments becauswe of it.
Mr Kucinich, I know what is at stake, and I am deeply concerned. The dems have no strong, focused and centered un-fearful person to run for president in 2006 as of this moment.
Any president, no matter from which party, that will be elected in 2003 will have a gigantic task,
never before experienced by any pres of the US. However, I know that you have the ingtelligence, courage and experience to save this nation before it is drawn into a fascist-military theocracy.
Please consider running for president in 2004. I for one will do all I can to support you.

Regards, Maurice

SENATOR KUCINICH SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER. 
HE SPEAKS TRUTH ABOUT POWER. I HOPE HE WILL CONTINUE TO SPEAK TRUTH FROM A POSITION OF POWER...CONGRESSIONAL CERTAINLY… PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULLY.  HIS POINT OF VIEW AND HIS OPINIONS OVER TIME HAVE PROVED TO BE SPOT-ON.  WHILE ALL THOSE AROUND HIM WERE BEING HERDED BY REPUBLICAN SHEPHERDS OF FAITH-BASED, CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY LIKE LEMMINGS INTO THE ABYSS, SENATOR K. MARCHED TO THE BEAT OF HIS OWN WELL-REASONED AND INCITEFUL DRUMS. MANY OF HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS ALSO SPOKE AGAINST THE INVASION OF IRAQ BUT WHEN IT CAME TIME TO VOTE THEIR SO-CALLED CONVICTIONS...THEY CAVED!

POLITICAL SCOUNDRELS WRAPPED THEMSELVES IN THE FLAG AND HEADED FOR THE ‘MORAL HIGHGROUND’. SENATOR K.
STOOD FAST AND SPOKE OFTEN AGAINST MINDLESS, MILITARY
MADNESS. THOSE OF US OUT HERE IN THE HUSTINGS RARELY
GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR HIS SANE, REASONABLE
VOICE BECAUSE THE MEDIA CHOSE NOT TO GIVE AIRTIME OR
COLUMN SPACE TO ANYONE NOT ON THE WARWAGON. FLAG
WAVING AND STRIDENT PRO-WAR SPEECHES SELL MORE
ADVERTISING AT HIGHER PRICES...THIS MOVES MORE PRODUCT.
TO HELL WITH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM! TO HELL WITH
ASKING TOUGH QUESTIONS TO THOSE IN POWER. ACCEPT WHAT
WE ARE TOLD BY THE PRESS HANDOUTS FROM THE WHITEHOUSE.
ABOVE ALL ELSE DO NOT LISTEN TO THE LITTLE MAN FROM
OHIO. THE THINGS HE IS TRYING TO TELL US ARE TOO FAR FROM
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TOLD TO BELIEVE...AND THEY SCARE US!

THE PRESIDENT IS A BORN-AGAIN (AND AGAIN! AND AGAIN!!)
FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN. HE SURROUNDED HIMSELF
WITH A COTERIE OF LIKE-THINKING TOADIES, LACKIES, AND
BOOT-LICKING SCUM.  SURELY HE/THEY WOULD NOT LIE TO
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?!? THE MEDIA GIVE IT NEITHER AN INCH
OF SPACE IN PRINT NOR A MINUTE OF AIRTIME.  ALL THE WHILE
SENATOR DENNIS KUCINICH CONTINUED TO POINT OUT THE
FLAWS IN THE NEOCON PHILOSOPHY. HE SPOKE ABOUT THE
REAL SITUATION ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ: NO PLAN FOR WHAT
TO DO WHEN THE WAR TURNED INTO AN OCCUPATION; LACK
OF BODY ARMOR FOR OUR TROOPS IN HARMS WAY; TROOP TRANSPORT WITH NO ARMOR PLATING; DISBANDING THE
IRAQI ARMY AND THE EXISTING GOVERNMENT; FAILURE TO GET
ANY DOMESTIC SERVICES UP AND RUNNING; FAILURE TO GET
THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF IRAQI OIL PUMPED AND SOLD TO
PAY FOR THE WAR; THE COMPLETE LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY
AND OVERSIGHT FROM THE REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED HOUSE
AND SENATE: THE GREED AND CORRUPTION OF THE ‘CHOSEN
CONTRACTORS’ WHO FAILED TO DELIVER THE GOODS AND SERVICES AND THEN HAD THE TEMERITY TO ASK FOR MORE BILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS’ DOLLARS SO THAT THEY MIGHT
CONTINUE TO BLEED US DRY AND NOT DELIVER THE SAME GOODS AND SERVICES THEY FAILED TO DELIVER IN THE FIRST AND SECOND AND THIRD PLACE!!

SOME OF US LISTENED. THOSE OF US PERSISTENT ENOUGH TO
SEARCH FOR VOICES IN THE CACOPHONY OF DECEPTION AND
LIES EMANATING FROM THE WHITEHOUSE, AND THE CONGRESS,
AND THE PENTAGON HEARD THE STILL SMALL VOICE OF DENNIS
KUCINICH. THIS VOICE FOR TRUTH AND REASON WAS STILL AND SMALL BECAUSE THE MAJOR MEDIA FOR ALL PRACTICAL
PURPOSES COLLUDED WITH THE NEOCON/REPUBLICAN/
EVANGELICAL TRUE-BELIEVERS TO STIFLE DISCOURSE AND DISSENT. ANYONE WHO QUESTIONED THIS WAS ACCUSED OF LACKING PATRIOTISM AND SUPPORTING THE TERRORISTS. IF HIS
WORDS WERE REPORTED AT ALL SEN. KUCINICH WAS ROUNDLY AND SOUNDLY DENOUNCED BY THE PRESIDENT’S TALKING HEADS. HE WAS CUSSED AND DISCUSSED BY “FAIR AND BALANCED” ‘JOURNALISTS’ EVERYWHERE. STILL HE PERSISTED. THANK YOU, SIR. I DO HOPE THAT IF SEN. K. ASSUMES THE
COMMITTEE CHAIRMANSHIP THAT HE WILL PERSUE THESE
NO-GOOD, LYING, THIEVING BASTARDS ALL THE WAY TO
THE FEDERAL PRISON CELLS THAT SHOULD RIGHTLY AWAIT
ALL WAR PROFITEERS AND CRIMINALS. MEANWHILE, LET US
NOT COUNT OUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY ARE HATCHED.
PLEASE GO AND VOTE. THE PRESIDENT IS A LAME BRAIN.
VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT THE REPUBLICANS AND TURN HIM INTO
A LAME DUCK...FACING IMPEACHMENT!
LAM-06

Congress.org just released it’s “power rankings” for members of Congress, based on committee positions, legislation and overall “influence” as determined by Knowlegis, an information management company. As would be expected, members of the party in power, the Republicans, are, generally, more influential than the overwhelming majority of Democratic legislators. Hopefully, House and Senate Democrats will all gain relative influence if our party takes back control of Congress in January 2007. That should be good news for ALL Democrats but, unfortunately, that’s not necessarily true in all cases.

My congressman, Rep.Dennis Kucinich (OH-10), will soon be re-elected to a sixth term to the U.S. House of Representatives on November 7th. In addition, he is running for president (again) in 2008. Despite spending $13 million and investing two (2) years of his life, Dennis managed to capture only 23 convention delegates in his losing 2004 primary. Rev. Al Sharpton was able to convince 27 delegates to endorse his candidacy.

Having said that, Congress.org lists Dennis’ current “power rank” at # 391 (out of 435). A relatively low rank, for any Democrat, is hardly shocking in the 109th, GOP controlled, Congress. What IS troubling, however, is Kucinich’s low 157 rank among his 201 fellow House Democrats and, in particular, his mediocre standing with fellow Ohio Democratic representatives. Dennis (157) currently ranks 5th in the six-person Ohio Democratic delegation, behind Rep.Marcy Kaptur (28), Rep.Sherrod Brown (36), Rep.Ted Strickland (116),and Rep.Stephanie Tubbs Jones (154). Apparently, only two-term Rep.Tim Ryan (188) and disgraced Republican congressman Bob Ney (437) ranked lower than Dennis Kucinich in Congress.org’s most recent power ranking. 

The biggest shock, however, is Kucinich’s dramatic 55 slot drop (from 336) just since 2004. Apparently, the congressman’s failed 2004 campaign cost him more than $13 million and the two years of his life (and focus) that he invested in pursuit of the presidency. His drop in influence (i.e.Power Ranking) was, easily, the most dramatic of all his Democratic colleagues in the Ohio delegation. Unfortunately, it now appears to have cost his long-suffering constituents even more. Although Congress.org has predicted that Dennis’ rank will climb 67 slots if (and when) the Democrat’s take back the U.S. House, his rise in rank will only be a net gain of 12 from where he was in 2004. The fear of many of his district supporters is that another presidential campaign by our congressman will only further erode his already weakening influence in both the Ohio delegation and among his Democratic colleagues in the House of Representatives.

Dennis is a good man. No doubt about that. His 2004 presidential candidacy was successful in raising awareness to a number of important issues; particularly the war in Iraq. Having said that, it’s become painfully apparent that Dennis is not who the Democratic primary voters want to be their eventual nominee. It’s time, then, that Dennis return home and help the folks who sent him to Washington, who gave him a platform to speak in the first place. There’s a lot of work that need to be done in Cleveland. We need Dennis’ full attention and considerable energy. 

Lawrence J. McDonald
Fairview Park, OH

In response to Allen Ross, I interpret what he said about wealth moving upward as being that more of the rich will get richer. As this administration has taken away from the middle class to give tax breaks to the rich corporations etc, the wealth of the nation is moving upward into the hands of those running the corporations and the already rich.

to my OH-10 neighbor, Lawrence - if the Dems regain control of the House, I agree that Dennis will be a position to “bring home some bacon.” I don’t agree that possibility would be negated if Dennis runs for President again.

Dennis has proven over decades to be a hardworking, dedicated, selfless public servant. If he runs for president again, I expect he will do as he did in the 2004 race- he will raise the level of discourse about the national issues we SHOULD be talking about - making the other candidates from both parties quirm a little - and force them to formulate their positions and debate the issues.

In this age of corporate money & control of political discussion - that is a great service to all Americans. We need more candidates willing to insist on discussing what matters most to most Americans.

This is the definition of a dedicated, selfless, (and I would add, fearless) public servant. Congressman Kucinich is that, undoubtedly.

What does anyone else in OH-10 have to say about this?
As you can see, I am undecided - should Congressman Kucinich mount a presidential run in 08?

Recall, Dennis’ published plan back in Fall 2004 to “Bring the UN in and get the US out of Iraq” He proposed that the occupation was already a quagmire, our troops were targets of terrorists flowing into Iraq, the cost of occupation (then at $155 billion) had no end in sight, and “staying the course” would damage American security. He proposed bringing UN peacekeepers in and getting our troops home in 90 days.

If only more people had heard him then.

In 2008, will Americans have the fearlessness required to imagine and fight for peace? Maybe we do need him to lead us in 08?

Could somebody please edit this sentence? It has a (probable) typo that I can’t resolve definitively enough to quote Dennis accurately. Thanks. It’s near the beginning:

“It has led to a government which has abused the war power, corrupted the Bill of Rights, established a national security state, and sharply accelerated upwards the wealth of the nation.”

I’m hoping it should say, “… and sharply accelerated upwards the ["theft of” or “illegal manipulation for profit of” or, most probably, “expenditure of"] the wealth of the nation.”

The Party and its supporters no longer care where the money they get or are promised comes from. They already know The Party and the money are drenched in the blood of many of The People, from many nations. They want The Party (the power) and the money anyway, and greed seems stronger than any other motivators, such as those represented by Dennis Kucinich. This goal, satisfying personal greed, is “on the other side,” is clearly an impediment to achieving the opposite of greed: traditional American goals.

If the statement is accurate as it appears here, The People will ignore the critical long-term damages, and reach for the promised and never delivered cash, to spend now.

They’ll be supporting the nation in the only way Bush offers the former middle class, now called the working poor, which now is the class just above that with the highest numbers dying in Iraq, those just a bit poorer and less educated. Spending money is the biggest way, other than shutting up, dying or being permanently wounded, visibly or not, to help our military win this war so they can come home. Borrow and spend more money.

The Party’s fiction: Infected with George W. ("The Wuss"), Bush the Disgrace III’s silver spoon mindset, “Borrow and spend will never come due.”

We, The People are the subjects of extremely successful propaganda tools, as is evident in the national yawn over Dennis’s completely unsurprising and accurate list of the outrages happening in the U.S.A. in “broad daylight”, in front of our faces, with no significant opposition.

I LOVE your comment....yes, the world would forgive US if we chose Dennis for our next president.  I only trust Dennis Kucinich to uphold our constitution and set things straight.  He truly represents the heart and soul of the American Spirit!

And look at his ‘to do’ list if the 2006 election is not stolen…
unanswered questions about 9/11, WMDs, the abandonment of international law and the Geneva Conventions, the war in Iraq, the White House Iraq Group, the Rendon propaganda machine, Afghanistan, Abu Graib, Guantanamo, the Pat Tillman case, Iraq war casualties, the missing $10.8 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds, the human and economic toll of the war, rendition, wiretapping, domestic spying, and plans for an attack on Iran

The only way to save our democracy is through accountability.
GO DENNIS GO!! BRING IT ON!!!!!

I’m proud to live in OH-10 and have Dennis representing me and my family in Congress.  I admire his tenacity, his honesty, and most importantly, his open communication with his constituents.  When you send Dennis your thoughts on an issue, he responds...not with a “thanks for writing” e-mail like I get from the White House or Sen. DeWine’s office 99.9% of the time, but with a real letter outlining his views on the issue, how he voted on it in committee or on the House floor, and what he’s doing to make substantive positive change for the people of NE Ohio and Americans in general.

Washington needs more men like Dennis Kucinich.

Dennis speaks truth--something too many of our politicians know little about. Oh, to have leaders of his stripe whether they be Democrat or Republican. A true citizen and honorable American. This North Carolinian and former Ohio resident would like to see Dennis in a leadership position in our government. Keep the faith and that might happen.

“...I urge my colleagues to vote against the PATRIOT Act reauthorization, to stand up for our Constitution, to stand up for our Bill of Rights, to remember the long struggle that was instrumental in establishing those liberties.”
- Dennis Kucinich speaking from the Floor of the House, March 7, 2006
http://www.kucinich.us/floor_speeches/def_dont_reauth7 mar.php

Where have the voices of reason gone to, in this paranoid land of Terror Levels, and State of Emergency newscasts?  The countenance of this nation has changed these past years to that of an angry white man, smashing down all that his fist can destroy.

Popular opinion polls usurp logic, and science is quite out of favor now, easily replaced with distractions, smokescreens, and celebrity pedophiles that take the weight off a Persian war, spiraling out of control, wreaking unimaginable havoc on a people already burdened so heavily with grief, death. Perhaps democracy has always been found through the barrel end of a rifle, trading bullets for beliefs; lives for liberties.  But our task in the weeks ahead is to vote.  Vote this nation back onto her feet, and vow never to let her fall so far again.

My congressman, Rep.Dennis J. Kucinich (OH-10), is running for president again. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported last month that the 2004 presidential candidate and his new wife, Elizabeth, were in California for a seven-city fundraising tour ("Kucinich taps wallets in Santa Cruz”, 9/9/06). Confident that his re-election to Congress is “a safe bet”, the Sentinel reported that “the 59-year-old vegan and former mayor of Cleveland is eying the presidency once again”.

With House Democrats poised to take back control of Congress, it seems to me that Dennis’ plans for another presidential campaign should be disturbing to his loyal middle-class and poor constituents. His party in power, for the first time since he’s been in Congress, Dennis will be in a position to finally “bring home some bacon” to his beleagered constituents. (For the second time in the last three years, Cleveland, Ohio has been sited as “the poorest city in America"). And only last week, Cleveland was, unfortunately, designated as America’s 7th most dangerous city.

It seems to me, that Rep.Kucinich can’t maximize that opportunity if he’s traveling around the country with his new wife, staying in nice hotels, making speeches, “tapping wallets” of adoring supporters, and collecting even more (money) from federal matching campaign funds. The congressman’s two-year, 2004 presidential campaign cost him $13 million, two years of non-stop campaigning, but netted him only 23 convention delegates for his efforts. 4 less than Rev. Al Sharpton.

The path that Dennis chooses, between now and the 2008 election, will provide supporters and detractors alike with the congressman’s priorities. Will he be the dedicated, selfless public servant, with only the best interests of his loyal constituents at heart or will he, instead, choose the temporary fame and adulation that comes with being a candidate for president of the United States? Stay tuned.

Lawrence J. McDonald
Fairview Park, OH

It’s good to know there are men like Dennis Kucinich in congress. He represents the people. Period. I hope he runs for president again so we can have a debate on real issues that effect the working class. Go Kucinch!!! You got my Vote Brother.

Dennis, you are the individual the American people want to hear and have represent them in DC. Bring’em on!

I worked very hard for Dennis’ candidacy in 2004, and would work just as hard if not harder in 2008.  He is the only politician who makes sense to me other than Russ Feingold.  Dennis for President, and everybody, support him with money, time and whatever else you can give. 
We desperately need a Department of Peace.

I’m so proud to be able to cast a vote for Dennis as my Congressman.  I agree that Dennis was right all along. I agree he should be president!

However, I have to say that I am not sure that running for President is the right thing for Dennis to do. I don’t believe there are enough voters willing to support him to victory. And, we all know the Dem Party is not going to support him, because the Dem Party is too tied up tight to big business.

Perhaps the best way -most productive way for Dennis to work is from a step or two behind the party leadership and work in the existing committee structure and to work to organize other Congresspeople to push a “united front” against the fear-mongering corporate thieves that swirl around Washington.

Remember how he worked so effectively to lead 140+ Congresspeople to vote NO for the war back in 2002?

Maybe his most effective role is to steel the spines, bravery, nerves, hopes and dreams - of his collegues for the onslaught we know is coming.

BY THE WAY - make sure you see the film “Iraq for Sale”
@iraqforsale.org.

And if the vote counts here in Ohio don’t make much sense and if Democrats are made to wait in line for hours to vote because most of the voting machines have been placed in Republican precincts (again), I hope you’ll lead the charge to expose the corruption that’s crept into our election process just like it’s crept into the GOP-controlled Congress.

Rock on, Mr. Kucinich ... you make Ohioans proud!

Dear Mr. Kucinich,
I salute your strenght and your love for our nation, and I respect and admire your hard work to try to keep America the greatest country in the world.
Sincerely,

I voted for Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 West Virginia primary. I now live in Texas. The weather is good here now, but the political situation is not favorable. We need Dennis or someone with his courage to run and win! We need to drastically cut the budget of the Pentagon and somehow tackle the military-industrial-Congressional complex (Eisenhower’s original unrevised language) so that we can fund the human needs of this nation’s people, e.g., health care, education, infrastructure repair. These are the priorities of Dennis Kucinich and the Progressive Democrats. Keep fighting!

I am wholly in agreement with johnny progress’ statement - Dennis Kucinich for President.  The man’s got more common sense and ability in his fingernail clippings than the entirety of the current rethug administration and Congress.

It is without doubt that Mr. Kucinich is one of the exceptions, unfortunately, of honorable men to hold modern office. (His wife is not bad either - way to go Dennis)

This election is indeed the most important one we will ever have. If we are to ever save our country by bringing the criminals in this government to justice this may well be our last chance.

The most horrendous of these crimes is the attacks of 9/11. It doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes to know that 9/11 was a “false flag” operation planned and carried out by elements within our own government. Anyone that has any doubts about this claim need only to view the evidence yourself at sites 9/11Truth.org, Belowgroundsurface.org., Scholar’s for 9/11 Truth to name just a few.

If indeed the criminals do manage to steal another election you can pretty much prepare yourself for Hell in America. Actually no matter which way it goes things will get a lot worse before they get better.

Once the truth is known - nothing else matters.

My newspaper headline next wednesday would be “THE JIG IS UP!”

Hopefully, it wouldn’t be another story about how somebody got caught rigging the elections again.

Let us hope and hold Dennis to his word. Thoughts, such as these, disappear after elections more often than not. We do need answers and be damned to those that are guilty of covering up.

Dennis was right all all along. He hasn’t waffled. He wasn’t afraid to Bush a fraud when Bush was mega popular.

Much better than Hillary, or John.

Slogan:
Dennis Kucinich, right all along.

U.S. Deptartment of Peace--
Imaginge a world where the money spent for the DoD of $640B would instead be spent on peaceful means, like conflict resolution, renewable energy and mutual cooperation among countries to permanently sustain adequate living conditions for all...what would THAT World look like? ..How proud would we be to be leaders in a movement like that....this man can help lead us there as he speaks truth to power..stay the course Mr. K! We’re waking up. 
You may say I’m a dreamer.....

It’s ironic to see a Dem. rally against the one party system even as his party jumps in bed with the same corporate political pimps that own the Genocidal Oppression Party (GOP).

It is time for a true reform of the political process. No more special interest money, no more corporate money, no more PAC money, no more period. It is time that we (the taxpayers) fund our own elections. It’s not complicated really. FAR less complicated than the system now. It might even give us some actual candidates.

Here’s a general idea on how it could work.

Candidate statements (that included your stands on the issues of the day) would be required to have X amount of signatures. These would be submitted by some deadline. Once submitted and verified each candidate would get access to Y amount of funds.

New laws would make any election ad, mailing, or pamphleting that wasn’t paid for from the Election Fund illegal. Further, material support (transportation, food, lodging, etc) would similarly be required to be paid from these funds. Candidates could either be prohibited from spending their own cash or if X candidate donates $1 million to his campaign the fund would have to level the playing field by matching those funds to any other candidate for that race (to limit costs a ceiling could be made on self donations).

This needs a lot of flushing out of course. A system like this could actually allow people without the means (being rich themselves or being supported by those who are) to become candidates. This could expand us to a truly more representative government ...or at least some more choice in our elections. It would also take corporate money out of elections.

Of course this doesn’t remove greed. Corruption will still happen, but it will not be “legal” as it is now. (Oh you want my vote on HR 1269, give $10,000 to Ass PAC and I’m all yours!) Legalized bribery needs to be outlawed.

B

http://b-political.blogspot.com/

Thank you congressman for your continued clarity and moral voice on these momentous issues our country faces. I sincerely wish that the media had allowed you in all the debates of the last presidential election, so that our country’s dialogue could have been elevated to a level we all need as citizens.

Dennis is the only politician to whose campaign I’ve ever donated money in my life. Yes, he should be president. Let’s hope he runs again and wins this time.

Without a doubt, you are the best hope for real change in Washington. Please run again in ‘08 for president. Let your points become the issues, and, with or without the approval of the DNC, in time they’ll come your way because you have the will of the people behind you! Keep fighting the good fight of truth.

Many people are unaware as to how important it is not only for the future of Americans, but of the world, that Congressman Dennis Kucinich be re-elected and that he has a majority of Democrats in the House, with which to work.  He introduced a proposal for a U.S. Department of Peace and Non-violence and he had more than 70 co-sponsors, but not one of them was from the Republican side of the isle. Establishment of this department would be the start of a movement toward sanity in the United States.  If we can move our country into a culture of peace and sane behavior, other countries will follow. The United States is the most violent country in the industrial world and violent crimes are on the increase. The proposed U.S. Department of Peace and Non-violence deals with both international and domestic conflict resolution. We can do so much better as a nation.  We must do so much better.  But first we need leaders who are committed to doing better.  On my “I am grateful for” list, Dennis Kucinich has a spot.

If the dems win I hope they use their power to dismantle the Bush dynasty so it does not rise again.  If they instead play politics as usual, and let these crooks go, they will blow a huge opportunity to help the country survive.  We need to undo everything Bush has done.  And the ones responsible need a long prison stay.

This man should be president. No more of the power hungry big man on campus types.
And thank you, Dennis-we DO have questions about 911, and we’re not going to let it be another military industrial strike against the US like the JFK, RFK and MLK killings.
Such a gentle man yet so brave. The world would forgive the ugly, fat, greedy, violent, entitlement drunk American ONLY if we put old Dennis in there to apologize for us and fix things per the demands of progress.