In reply to complaints about DK:

1) “Kucinich is no longer important”. He is very revelent, as seen by this weeks’ comments on Alex Jones’ show revealing the 911 investigations. It appears that a Cleveland Congressman must interevene to help NYC First Responders who are sick from the poisonous effects of the “911” dust. Even the health of firemen and police is too controversial a subject for their local Congresspersons, because to do so means opening up the question of the 911 Commission lying and hiding the truth, and anyone that takes this on will likely be sanctioned. They are apparently so frightened of ANYTHING to do with the subject of 911, that they refuse to help these people. Since Kucinich is already being attacked for his honesty and desire for truth, he is very effective in this role: As a Congressman that actually owns a set.

The fact that the controlled mainstream media blacklisted him and blackballed him from Debates proves he is one of their greatest, most dangerous enemies: They would not risk the blatant and obvious silencing if he was not a serious danger to them. Why? Because he is willing to speak truth.

2) “Kucinich is not effective as a lawmaker”. This lie comes straight from the Cimperman campaign. DK is extremely effective as a source of constant pressure for change, as one who refuses to accept the usual party line of lies and inaction. Without him and a handful of others in Congress, the charade of the Democrat leadership would have gone even further, the lies increased, the corruption and subservience to the Bush administration even more craven than now (as proof,look to the Senate: Since the death of Paul Wellstone, they no longer even pretend and rubber stamp nearly everything).

Universal not-for-profit healthcare will not be passed without years more of hard work: Without people like Kucinich, it has no hope of ever being passed. But they yell that he has not garnered pork. What a joke, we are fighting for our Liberty, our Freedom, our Nation here… Not sticking our head in the sand and aiming to get another overpass on Rte. #71 as a trade for voting for more weapons systems. So they sugest he should instead be just another go-along, get-along yes-man; in the pocket of corrupt interests like the vast majority of those in Washington. No… Kucinich is effective just by being Kucinich; and God bless him for standing up for the people’s rights.

3) “Kucinich is a Grandstander”. This one has absolutely nothing to back it with. Every issue DK works for, every stance taken, every single time he speaks out… There are vital and compelling reasons for doing so. Since so few Congresspeople have the courage to take on most of these topics, some may be confusing unprecedented boldness with “sensationalism”. WE, Progressives all over the country, ask, even BEG Dennis to take on these dangerous issues, and he has not profited from it: Look at him now, forced out of the Presidential race by an unholy alliance of the Democratic leadership and big business to try and take away his Congressional seat. Look around you: There are millions who want Impeachment. There are millions who want to end the war immediately, stop the next wars from happening. Is it “grandstanding” to work for this? No, it is trying to do our part for a better world… Despite the dangers of bucking a system intent on destroying all dissention. Some of the people here ought to try it themselves, it can be very rewarding (...however it requires courage). But if you won’t help us take back our country; then at least get out of the way.

Incompetent. His constituency services have been top notch. Incompetent not. His issues are Cleveland’s issues. Health care and Offshoring jobs. Kucinich has been the primary fighter . For proof. Seek out Kucinich’s questioning on Waxman’s subcommittee , Government Reform. Kucinich’s focus is like a dog with a bone. I suggest you check realitity before you suck in the spin.

“What major piece of lege did he shepherd through?
What minor piece?
What’s he achieved? NOTHING!”
I’ll concede that a quick search reveals no “Major” legislation sponsored soley by Dennis becoming law.A quick search does show that in the 105th congress Kucinich did successfully sponsor into law house bill
4083. A “minor” piece of legislation but law none the less.  Kucinich also has multiple successful amendments to legislation that have become law. He has also co-sponsored partisan and bi-partisan legislation as well.
Purporting that he has achieved “NOTHING!” is asinine and you know it.  Passing law is not the sole benchmark on ANY congress persons achievements and I say respectively your naive to hold this opinion.  Spend some time in the Thomas Jefferson online library and you will see substantial and AMAZING examples of progressive legislation that you claim you would support that has made it to or is sitting in the laps of our right leaning committees and sub-committees. All authored by Kucinich. Some with large co-sponsorship and some with minimal.  How many letters have you written to congress DEMANDING that they support the “ineffectual” legislation that Kucinich has proposed?  You say that you support over 95% of what he “says” but do you fight to show the conservative congress that Kucinich is not a lone progressive candle in the dark?

You know, mostly I really like what Bob Scheer writes, and his stands.  But, let’s not glorify him for giving Kucinich space on TruthDig.  I ask you (and I asked him), where was the coverage of Dennis Kucinich when it mattered?  Why was there no space given to him to write about his plans for the country when he was running for president?  It wasn’t here, it wasn’t at HuffPo.  Kucinich was non-existent.  I was regularly looking for the coverage.  The first thing Mr. Scheer bothered to cover was Dennis leaving the race.  He was as bad as all the other mainstream liberal blogs.  So, while I appreciate him on many other levels, he has failed us, and his friend Dennis here.  And, that’s the truth.

By Gabir, February 12 at 9:09 am #

“When people begin a comment with “with all due respect” , I take issue with whether they have any respect at all for the person or views of the person he/she/they are addressing .”

Oh shit, you caught me…You’re right. You win.  I have no respect for you at all…..

Is possibility that the corporate enemies of Kucinich are being funded and helped by U.S. government as retaliation against Kucinich for submitting Bill 333 to impeach Cheney and the new, delayed bill to impeach Bu$h.  The corporate dogs are set up Kucinich to get rid of him with U.S. government’s blessing.  The public and the voters do not mean anything anymore.  We are expendable peasants.

This is what happens. This is why Mr Kucinich is a brave and good person.

Vote Obama for Kucinich.

President Obama, 2009.

With all due respect Gabir, you sound like a Ron Reagan Campaign commercial. 

Which puts me in mind of a funny line John Travolta used.  He was speaking of his comeback in the nineties and was telling of a time when work was difficult to find. He went to his agent and said: “Jeeze, when I was a kid in the Breakfast Club, and on Welcome Back Kotter, everyone loved me, and now I can’t even get an advertisement… I’m a bum!”.

The agent replied: “John, you were not that good then, and you are not that bad now.”

The USA has been a “beacon” of hope with a failed promise lately.  BUT when the Germans, Irish, Jews, and Italians arrived on these shores they were discriminated against, forced to work for slave wages, and occasionally killed, leaving their families to starve. They didn’t call it “hell’s kitchen” because life was easy.

Inherit the wind, since you wont do your own homework I’ll do it for you.  This snippet is taken from http://www.kucinich.us ;

” U.S. Congress

Since being elected to Congress in 1996, Kucinich has been a tireless advocate for workers’ rights, civil rights and human rights.

He has authored and co-sponsored legislation to create a national, not-for-profit health care system, preserve Social Security, lower the costs of prescription drugs, provide economic development through infrastructure improvements, abolish the death penalty, provide universal pre-kindergarten to all 3, 4, and 5 year olds, create a Department of Peace, regulate genetically engineered foods, repeal the USA PATRIOT Act, and provide tax relief to working class families. He has also opposed trade policies that resulted in the out-sourcing of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs. And, he has also introduced legislation to begin impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney to investigate his role in providing false and misleading information to the Congress and to the American people leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

Kucinich is widely regarded as the most vocal opponent of the Iraq War in the U.S. Congress. In 2002, when the Administration was pushing for a resolution of authorization to proceed with military intervention, Kucinich rallied 125 member of the House to vote against the authorization measure. He has voted against every war funding authorization bill since, and he is the author of legislation to end the war, withdraw all U.S. forces, and turn security and peace-keeping responsibilities over to a multi-national force that includes representatives from countries in the region.
In his Congressional District, which includes parts of Cleveland and several western and southern suburban communities, Kucinich has been recognized by the Greater Cleveland AFL-CIO as a tireless advocate for the social and economic interests of his constituents.
Kucinich led the effort to save Cleveland’s 90 year-old steel industry and the thousands of jobs and retiree benefits it provides. While hundreds of community hospitals have been closed throughout the country, Kucinich led a community-based effort to reopen two Cleveland neighborhood hospitals.

He also worked with the nation’s largest railroads to create a merger agreement that improved rail safety while diverting a heavy volume of train traffic away from heavily populated residential areas of his district. Kucinich has also been a strong advocate for preserving and expanding the critical the role of the NASA Glenn Research Center, which is in his district.

For those efforts and others, he has been honored by the Cleveland AFL-CIO, the Ohio PTA, the NASA Glenn Research Center, the Salvation Army, the United States Post Office, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, Ohio’s Boys Town, and the Human Rights Campaign.

Nationally, he has received similar honors and accolades from Public Citizen, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters as a champion of clean air, clean water and an unspoiled earth. Kucinich has twice been an official United States delegate to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (1998, 2004) and attend the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.

He currently serves as Chairman of the Domestic Policy subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives.”

The point that some of these actions died in the halls of Congress shows us how far to the right this country has swayed. We have mouth breathing knuckle dragger’s in their like Lieberman et al. calling themselves liberals.
Good luck getting them to vote with you.  A candle in the darkness may not light the whole room but at least I am close enough to see it.

I would vote for Kicinich even if he decided to go on to Independent and if not I would vote Ron Paul even if he went Independent. But that is neither here nor there so to speak because I agree wholeheartedly with you voting for DK over any repub who may not be incompetent but are very very criminal and that takes some smarts and nerve to pull off the crap they continually dish out. And what gets me is that nothing is happening to take the criminals down, no oversight, no investigations(at best very few but was a great way to handle cunningham & delay)and that spells bad news for the future. Then it comes down to waiting. Waiting until November to see who wins the prize. But it will not be enough just to get a democrat or independent elected at president, it will take a massive vote out of well entrenched incmubents to even think about turning this government and country around. I cannot say strongly enough that that will happen.

You hit the nail on the head my friend. Thank you for your well thought and sincere comment.

A republican congress from the mid 90’s to 2006. They produced many accomplishments-none of them good for the American people. DK did his best to inform the public.

Are you kidding me You think Dennis is not an honest person?And incompetent? People like you need to GO AWAY

Don’t know if the link below is true. This weeks ’ ALexander Cockburn asks is Kucinich being “McKineyed,?”  Kucinich had the gaul to talk to Syria. Which I believe is overdue and a positive step. I believe AIPAC is capable of all kinds of Skullduggery. I’d like it if someone buttonholes Kucinich and demands an answer. If true and Kucinich leaves the Democratic Party , this family will follow.
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“Before the Nevada primary, Dennis [Kucinich] was visited by representatives of Nancy Pelosi and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — AIPAC”
They told Dennis that if he would drop his campaigns to impeach Cheney and Bush, they would guarantee his re-election to the House of Representatives.

Kucinich threw them out of his office.

http://endinjusticenow.blogspot.com/2008/02/before-nevada-primary-dennis-kucinich.html

I have tremendous respect for Dennis Kucinich as a principaled and courageous individual. I wish he had had a real shot at being nominated for the Presidency. Of all the candidates running, I thought he had the best all-around platform. He definitely has been one of the very few democrats who have shown any willingness to stand up to Bush/Cheney and the rest of the Dark Empire. But… I think he is now facing the consequences of not paying enough attention to his political base in Cleveland. The commments being posted by individuals mostly appear to fall into two categories: 1) those who praise him for his national stands, and 2) those who critisize him for not doing enought/anything for Cleveland. Telling to me is that there are almost no comments about how he should be relected by Cleveland for what he has done for Cleveland.

It’s a fantastic comment.

One thing;  If you want to win this, it can’t be fought in the sky.  It is a land acquisition fight, and if you try to make it about types of people that live everywhere, you WILL lose the places being specifically targeted: Urban Centers.

  If we sit around firing arrows into the sky, we will lose urban centers for decades.  We’ll be weaker in urban centers than we are in the south, if, even after the bridge in MPLS and Katrina’s ninth ward cant open the Dems eyes to what the “Ownership Society” means when they wage a “Culture war” against urban America…  Hope when they come for others communities they have friends with more spine than us “Vote Warehouses” who built the suburbs.

Bush and his legions have produced fantasic accomplishments for our country.
The terriost attack of 9/11 has been avenged.
          NOT
The invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought democracy and stablazation to the middle east.
          NOT
Tax cuts have made our economy stronger.
The federal budget is proof of our shrinking government.
          NOT

Why go on. The list is endless of all the screw-ups,lies, and crimes of the republican party

Dennis Kucinich has proven his foresight in protecting the public utilities and sound judgement in opposing the Bush administration.

Corporations have no conscience. Their only motivation is money. Dennis knows that NAFTA is killing American jobs. Dennis also knows that the crimes Bush and Cheney have committed has not only killed Americans but has shrunk the dollar considerably and that has alot to do with Cleveland’s and US cities bigger problems. Dennis has almost stood alone fighting back at these crimes and the media who are profitting from war are doing a hit job on anybody who fights them. Those of you who believe the mainstream US media don’t know how far they’ve gone to destroy our country via Reagan to Cheney. The middle class is shooting itself in the foot by letting Kucinich go.

Not that Suburbanites give a moldy shit what happens in urban America (Witness Katrina and aftermath), but this is urban politics.
  We are run by giant Corporations who have done all the Demographics and understand that there worst enemies are the urban communities which they haven’t absolutely destroyed.  They pick a weak, barely surviving neighborhood and decide it needs a road, or it needs to lose the public school or something that holds the weak together, then they magic things to celebrity status (even if it’s just an old lady trying not to get hit with eminent domain) and suddenly they can do whatever they want. 

As long as the shit doesn’t come into wealthy neighborhoods, the suburbs don’t give a damn.  In fact, it does.  Believing it won’t, is like believing that if you feed a pet, it won’t grow.  Most of urban blight is loss of decent jobs, by eliminating the people who both live AND work in their community.  As long as suburbanites keep feeding the giants, the giants will continue to grow, and THAT is what causes urban blight and sprawl…  Not illegals.  Urban areas used to be able to accept the poor and the less fortunate because of good people who owned their future in their business.  Not any more.  It’s all “Foreign”...  Meaning people who live in the “OTHER America.”  People who don’t live in cities, and just don’t care.  the worse they make our neighborhoods, the more desperate the residents, the better for the employers.  It ain’t a mistake.

So, if you still think the “Culture War” is victimless, come live in the cities, where it’s being fought.  The culture we are supposed to have is being built in NO…

“The reason Dennis Kucinich didn’t connect with ‘America’ (sic) is because America (sic) knows he’s an incompetent”

By that logic, he should be president as we have elected a series of incompetents back to (at least) the Nixon administration.

Once back when, I was an active drunk… Got my first bottle before 9AM, and had my last drink before I put my head on a pillow.  I pissed away money, friends, and youth doing something I KNEW was bad for me ... but I NEVER listened to folks who had my well-being at heart, BECAUSE they were all telling me to slow down, or stop my drinking…. something that although it would benefit me in the long run, would be hard, mess up (what I thought was) my social life, and leave a whole in my being.

Kucinich is saying things people don’t want to hear. Ted Kennedy said some of those things in 1980, as did John Anderson (remember the .50 fuel tax?) Mondale said some of the same things in 84 (alternative energy restricted vehicle use, and repairs to infrastructure.) Dukakis said we needed to cut back on our spending and shore up regulations concerning banks and financial services institutions (Remember Drexel-Burnham, the 87 stock-dive, and Mike Milliken?)  Then Ross Perot warned us against NAFTA, not once, but over and over… He even “drew us a picture” and described the “Great sucking sound” as jobs went south… We elected Bill(Nafta-boy) Clinton. So it goes.  We (like an alcoholic) beat up the messenger, and continue down the path of destruction. 

EVENTUALLY we will get national Health Insurance that is in truth benefitial for companies like Ford and GM. Someday we will ween ourselves off the cheap Chinese goods sold by WALMART TARGET AND COSCO. Someday we will burn Hydrogen (NOT FUEL CELLS) in our cars, and make our forests green again, someday we may even limit our out-of-control population growth knowing that we simply can’t support this many people… Someday…but not this election….just one more drink!

Hell. Clevelanders turn out to be dumbheads, pegged to what the media tells them to do. Well, Kucinich and his wife are both intereseted in the media . Did not Ms. Kucinich work for TV news. She loves DK for his books and ideas. SO she say in her interviews. She fell in love with him while sharing books. / If I were the two , I’d go back to England. THe US is too dumb for such intellect. The UK, where serious journalism still survives.

Why would Dennis get posted on Truthdig. He is a well trained journalist by education. Some Americans can stand the truth. Instead follow the money rendered to us via big city machine politics. If Cleveland does not deserve a truthdigger of Kucinich’s convictions and compassion , then they deserve to have Muny LIght privatized and see who gets screwed then.

And just exactly how does she “appear” to you? And what do you think you can tell by looking at a person? If you knew anything about Elizabeth, you would be absolutely embarrassed by your ignorant comment.

” Liberals may love him, but most of us in Cleveland know him far better, and aren’t suckered in.”

Really? I guess that makes Clevelanders a bunch of suckers since you keep re-electing the guy.

Ignoramus’s like you are always whining and crying about loosing but you never do anything but come here and do more whining. Dennis Kucinich has more competence and confidence in what he stands for than ten thousand idiots like you. Dennis knows what happened. I know what happened. All the real People who are engaged in the act of the democratic process know exactly what happened and none of them are people like you. You belong to the class of never weres.

You are part of the problem. You let the corporate shills convince you that Dennis can’t win and you buy it, you blame him and then you will vote for one of their people and get screwed but the guy how warned you that that was about to happen to you, why, it’s all his fault. Only stupid people let corporations drive them into default when the person who was right about it all along gets pushed out of office. You are another one of the slow learners. You are the intellectually and politically challenged fools that can’t figure out where their own best interests lay.

Dennis Kucinich transcends being a “Democrat”! He is a good and thoughtful person who wants to protect Ameicans from what is happening to them. The fact that you can’t see the conspiracy proves his point. Idiots like you don’t deserve him representing you. The Democan’ts haven’t protected you and will continue to sell you and anything else they can because they know fools when they see them.

Kucinich should take the same path Al Gore has taken. Gore knows how stupid and fickle people are and realizes that one has to sell ones soul to become President, or any other elected office for that matter, and then they get to represent fools like you! That Kucinich has managed to keep his principles and ethics all the while doing the People’s business speaks how good he is at what he does. And you see that as being incompetent. What a sad little person you must be!

The reason people didn’t get to connect with Congressman Kucinich is because the powers that be (the corporatist)decided that he should not. For the Corporatist, if Congressman Kucinich speaks out against war and they’re profits are derived primarily from war (G.E., Halliburton, Big Oil), then he shouldn’t be allowed to speak out, to challenge their bottom line (to hell with the American people). And Corporatist control the media….well, then it’s easy to silence voices isn’t it? Of course the list goes on of those in the Status Quo (Healthcare, Insurance, Credit, Big Oil, etc), whose interest would have been challenged, if Congressman Kucinich’s views were actually heard by a large enough percentage of the population. And remember, those who were aware of Congressman Kucinich’s views, in poll after poll choose him above all others. So it is unfortunate that he didn’t get more coverage, in order that he might have opened more eyes and ears to the complete tragedy of what America has become.

I am certain that it is a conspiracy, which has Congressman Kucinich in its crosshairs. One really need not look far for other examples of conspiracies against Congresspeople and others for ‘stepping out of line.’ And one would have to be completely naive to believe that conspiracies were/are not part and parcel of running an empire and controlling the people.

Congressman Kucinich is not incompetent, but rather the status quo is unwilling to let go its baubles, power and control in light of an informed populace and an alternative, constructive vision.

As this conspiracy goes forth, we must all be aware of agent provocateurs and PAC aligned stooges, who will attempt to defame, deride and swiftboat Congressman Kuncinich, at the orders of their Corporatist and PAC masters.

Cheers.

It was commendable and perfectly sensible for Dennis to try to rally the progressive wing of the Democratic Party behind his candidacy. He, after all, was the only candidate who embodied their two most fervently professed desires: i.e., to end the war in Iraq, and provide universal, single payer health care for all Americans. But progressives aren’t nearly as interested in achieving their ends as they are in winning this election, so they rallied behind one or the other of the Wall-Street-Republicans-in-Democrat’s-clothing candidates pre-selected for them by the ruling class. As a consequence, unfortunately, they and we will get the candidates we deserve.

Send Dennis a generous donation, he was and is the most fitting representative of our best selves, and we rejected him when given the chance to redeem ourselves. Ask not for whom the bell tolls…

I wonder how long his wife will stick around if he loses his seat.  She doesn’t appear the “small house in a modest neighborhood” type of liberal to me.

The withdrawl of Dennis Kucinich from the presidential race has brought me face to face with the last stage of grief for the loss our country, sorrow. That so few are able to see what is to be our reward for continuing down this path is an unreal reminder. Our lust for material reward-our fear of the other.The disbelief, rage and anger rarely awaken in me any more. My tears are all that is left. The heart has been torn from the body of what used to be are proud country. We are left with the howling devils eating our flesh dressed as patriots. Goodbye great dream. 

The future for us looks a lot like what was dished up in the recent past for the former Soviet Union. They also were suckered into an un-winnable war in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has never been particularly generous to the invaders-not the British, not the USSR and it won’t be to the USA. Ditto Iraq. Soon we will be hawking our family heirlooms on the street to buy food for our next meal the way Soviet citizens were similarly humiliated after the fall of the USSR. But the cheery voices on the flicker box will never give us a clue.

“The majority of Americans would not know the truth if they heard it. Them’s the facts, folks. But too many of you don’t get it.”

Those words from a writer above “GA” seem to sum it all up pretty well.

Kucinich was and still is the only candidate talking about the nuclear threat that we are still facing after all of these decades.

“Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderst of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness.”

US President John F. Kennedy, 1962

Quoted from “Operation Cyanide,” Why the bombing of USS Liberty nearly caused World War III. by Peter Hounam.

The truth is-if you can understand it-we have already survived numerous attempts to launch an all out nulcear holocaust upon the mass of the human race.
Our nuclear war fighting elite decided long ago-1946 to be exact-to destroy the human race in total with the use of nuclear weapons.

We continue to exist due only to the intervention into our world by some unknown High level power, that we generally call ET.

Kucinich is the only candidate who said anything about the nuclear weapons that are still hanging by the slenderest of threads awaiting only a moment of Madness, to carry forward with the plan to kill us all.

When you(My fellow members of the Living Dead) awaken to this brutal truth, no cost or effort will be spared to convene World wide Grand Juries to hear evidence about the plans and overt acts of our nuclear war fighting elite to destroy us.

If juries decide to convict our nuclear war fighting elite of acts of “Criminal insanity,”  no cost will be spared to send them all to mental health facilities where they will be humanely institutionalzed to prevent them from continuing to attempt too launch a nuclear holocaust upon humanity.

If you understand the truth, you along with the rest of us who are also the Living Dead, will have an idea of what is ahead for us.

Peace is Perfect.
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Denis Denis Denis

I always underfire But I assure you will overcome it. just don’t give up like the Presidention Primaries. Remember the old saying “The ball don’t lie”. They waste there money but I will see you in Wahington

The old love it or leave it, huh? Jeez, I haven’t heard that one since the sixties. How about we stay right here and fight for the America we want? Personally, I find much about America I don’t like, but it’s where I live and I’m not going anywhere. You seem to like the ‘‘capitalistic ideal.’’ Good for you. Capitalism, to me, is little more than greed elevated to religious dogma. You also seem to miss the biggest ‘‘truth’’ of all. Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism are economic systems, not political. They are also quite equal on paper. They all work. That all three systems fail is because they each miss that one big ‘‘truth.” In order to work, a high standard of ethics is required by all participants. If workers own the means of production, they must all have a high standard of ethics in order for the system to work. The same goes for private enterprise. Otherwise you get Enron and 19% interest on your credit cards. I don’t know about you, but I’ve met few people in my lifetime who have a high standard of ethics. Look around. We’re mostly sheep and we live and vote that way. We take the path of least resistance. We go along to get along. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul actually have something to say but that would require us to pay attention, to listen, and to think. Far easier for us to simply support the candidate who waves the flag or the Bible the hardest. Thinking makes our heads hurt. That’s the reason the Kucinich and Paul campaigns didn’t catch on. We’d actually have to think. Either that or they’re both just too short. The outcome’s the same either way.

Some guy up at the top is bashing Kucinich for Bankrupting Cleveland as Mayor and some lady thinks he shouldn’t have waded into the spotlight with his agenda…

Well, even my republican relatives in Cleveland give Kucinich credit for standing up to the hostile takeover attempt of the utility company back then… and that they really bankrupted the city… and acquiescing has in hindsight proven Kucinich’s judgement correct.

A year and a half ago, the proposals on democratic party platform weren’t what we hear today.  The movie Sicko shook a lot of people, as just about all of us have experienced some sort of frustration or worse at the hands of the insurance companies.  Those ‘no shot’ candidates like Kucinich that had universal healthcare front and center in their campaigns, just as the country was demanding it be given attention, forced the ‘anointed’ candidates to ante up as well, and it became a central issue for every democratic candidate.  He wouldn’t have made a difference sitting in one of his offices in Ohio or DC, but the popular issues he pushed on the national stage helped force those popular issues on the party and the other candidates.  Make no mistake about it, if you believe in universal healthcare or question the current NAFTA arrangement as it pertains to job losses, you were served well by Kucinich’s time on the road and in front of the cameras (as few as that may have been).    If we all had Kucinichs for representatives we wouldn’t need him to have spoken to and for everyone , but we don’t.

I agree that Kucinich is the best person to run for President since McGovern… the only true Progressive in the 2008 bunch (Edwards is a Liberal, who knows what Obama is, and Hillary is a moderate conservative not much different from McCain), but that it’s time for him to leave the Democrats. 

He should be the on the Green Party ticket for 2012. 

If we get an Obama/McCain battle (and I would hope Obama wins that one), we may see the end of the ultra conservative and neo-conservative base in the Republican Party and a return there to a moderate base (though the Huckabee’s and Cheney’s won’t just go away). If the Republicans move leftward, the Dems would have to too, and therefore shed their Clinton/DLC pseudo-liberal politic they’ve formed and go back to a politic where Edwards would be considered the mainstream (even conservative-leaning) Democratic candidate, and Kucinich would be considered a (very electable) progressive (like an FDR with less affection for the corporations and war).  More like Norway!

But until then, Kucinich should stay around as a Green to keep his message clear for all to hear.  If the 2 main parties shift left (and let’s hope they do, for the sake of America and the world), Dennis can then rejoin the Democrats.

Go die in one of your party’s wars for profit, you hate filled child.  There’s plenty to choose from.  This country was built atop piles of bodies.  Unfortunately, the latest capitalist call to arms missed one of the idiots in your case. Please troll, go and die for your country.

If only we could go back to the days before tv , when people were intereseted in thoughts and ideas -when people made intelligent choices by reading what a man had to say rather than the propaganda spewed out at them lying in their lazy boys… maybe we could get a real thinker like Dennis and not some corporate whore.  Dennis voted against the war.(A trillion dollars down a rat hole, A million lives wasted.)  He is against the war on drugs. (400 Billion dollars wasted. ,a million incarcerated)) He is for single payer universal health care…..( We’re paying for it - we are just not getting it.)  And on and on .  This country is full of ignorant asses who will get what they deserve because they are too lazy to think.  There were choices this time:  Bill Richardson, Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich.  Unfortunately the boob tube has made most Americans choices for them….Again.

As a native Clevelander, I’m one of many who are sick of Dennis Kucinich’s use of his position as an elected official to push himself into the national limelight while accomplishing absolutely nothing of value for the people of Cleveland.

Kucinich mis-managed the City of Cleveland into bankruptcy during his tenure as Mayor, vigorously fought the Gateway project which helped to re-invigorate Cleveland’s downtown in the 90s.

This is your progressive champion? Please. He’s always been an attention whore, who was trying to figure out how to run for higher office while Cleveland was circling the drain when he was mayor. George Voinovich, fortunately, was around to clean up the mess.

Liberals may love him, but most of us in Cleveland know him far better, and aren’t suckered in. If he loses his seat in a predominantly Democratic district, it will be because of his own desire to seek the spotlight rather than working for his constituents. It’s citizens, not “corporations”, who want more from their Congressman and will vote him out if needed.

Unbelievable.

Dude, if you don’t like America that much move.  There’s nothing keeping you here.  If you want to be “a de facto terroist” join Al-Qaida.  This country was build on the capitalistic ideal and will continue to be that for sometime.  If you can’t stand that move to France or somewhere more to your liking.  You want a socialist ideal, Europe is willing to accommodate you and if you wish for a communist one, China or Cuba or maybe Venezuela is more to your liking.  Dennis Kucinich is a Moron, that the reason his campaign never caught on with the American public.  With the Internet, Mass Media has lost it’s grip on America.  They can’t deal with it and it seems like you can’t either.

Guys, don’t feed the troll.  Feed Kucinich re-election campaign.  Those who are in control of government are busy DOING SOMETHING, while we are busy arguing with their sheep.  Donate to his campaign and get back to making what our side needs, money.

Right now, the powerful insurance, military industrial complex, AIPAC, and other lobbies are bankrolling candidates that will do whatever is in their interests.  Organize behind people and push back!

This demonstrates that the party honchos (not just the local Cleveland Deomcrats) are for weeding out parts of the party that represent more idealism.  When you get rid of the idealists and only have pragmatists you have a party that doesn’t stand for anything and is open to corruption, oh wait, we already have that in both major parties.

With all due respect, Mr. Kucinich, you should have been paying more attention to the people of your district—the people who gave you your bully pulpit in the first place. At a time when Ohio is in the worst economic condition in my lifetime (I am 44)...when houses are being forfeited at a rate of one per hour in Cleveland…when your constituents need you most…you were out chasing a dream. You had NO shot at being President.

While I respect (and agree with many of) your positions, you should have been here taking care of home. Joe Cimperman—opportunist, yes, but he genuinely cares for this area—has created a commercial that pretty much sums up how I feel about you. Rosemary Palmer has taken a higher ground, and I hope that she wins.

I will be moving into your district this spring, and I can guarantee that I will not vote for you.

Dennis
You gave us hope.  Corporate America dashed it, and your withdrawal from the primaries left us with no one to vote for.  I watched a congressional race here in MA go wrong and now this.  For me, my money and future dreams lie with the Green Party.  Good luck to you, and your family.  You are the best, bar none.

We will not have good government until we have media and election reforms.

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Yeah, really. The gall of these crazy lefties, presenting a piece on someone you’re not interested in. Did they not consult with you first on this? Imagine!

Support terror! Support Kucinich! If you’re wondering what the hell they have to do with each other, then you’re not scared enough! Put the TV back on and tune into a Republican, but for chrissake don’t think! Just swallow!

You’re a prick. A deluded, frightened one.

Americans are putty in the Mass Media’s eyes. America is the only country in the world that believes it’s own propoganda. Good men like Kucinich will eventually give up trying to awaken the American public as to what is going on. I think the middle class will have to disappear before America wakes up. Unfortunately that “moron” Bush has hoodwinked the “enlightened” public by signing enough executive orders to remove the checks and balances in the system and make anyone who opposes gov’t actions not only unpatriotic but an enemy of the state. Read my lips “a de facto terrorist”.
  Vote Hillary or even Obama and get what you deserve America.

DENNIS KUCINICH WAS A TRUTHER. THAT IS WHY HE IS NOT IN THE RACE. THE CORPORATE RUN MEDIA TELLS US WHO WE CAN VOTE FOR.
I NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE AGAINST IDEALISM. I THINK WE SHOULD ALL STRIVE FOR IT.
PEACE.

Corporations and government teamed up to globalize US industry, banking and labor and now they’re selling our assets too. It’s time to enter our super-sized over-priced out-of-control government in that same global arena. They want a New World Order? Let’s give it to them.

Make the federal government compete with other governments for ‘We The People’ allegiance and ‘We The Consumer’ economy or bear our rebellion: Do Not Tread On Me!

Suffering oppression twice under King George in less than three hundred years is more than American people must tolerate.

as one of the few authentic examples of integrity. Kucinich has the balls to say many of the things no one wanted to hear.

When good is contorted to appear bad and bad is choreographed to appear acceptably good - your near the tipping point.

The most effective vote we are all empowered cast is in our wallet. Spend your money very carefully, for nothing will get greed’s attention faster than not seeing our bucks.