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Elizabeth Kucinich for First Lady
Elizabeth Kucinich, whose husband Dennis is running for President, was in Fresno last Saturday. The following is a report by Jay Hubbell, who helped organize the Fresno visit.
As a long time supporter of the Presidential aspirations of Congressman Dennis Kucinich I was thrilled to get a call from Larry Johnson who is our Fresno County Democratic Central Committee representative on the State Party Executive Board saying that he had met Elizabeth Kucinich at the State E-Board meeting and that she promised to visit Fresno.
Not long after that I got a call from Sandra Marshal of San Luis Obispo who is Elizabeth’s campaign coordinator for California. She wanted me to pick a day and draw up a list of events she might be able to speak to. I picked Saturday, December 1st and gave her a list of six events. On Wednesday, just three days out from the target date. I finally got the word that Elizabeth would be able to be here.
She arrived in Reedley late Friday evening to speak to the Reedley Peace Center. The next morning she spoke to a citizens group that is trying to stop the destruction of Jessie Morrow Mountain (a burial ground that is sacred to a local Indian tribe) by a gravel mining operation.
I rendezvoused with her campaign at a lunch break at Laborer’s Hall in east Fresno where the State Party was conducting a campaign training workshop. As a thirty something and six foot or better in height with long straight flowing red hair she would do well as a model for haute couture on the runways of the world stage for latest trends in clothing. But here she was in an out of the way acoustically challenged hall in an out of the way city in a politically overlooked part of the country representing a largely ignored second tier candidate for the most important job in the world.
As soon as she spoke her first words with her clear, pleasant, audible, English accent tinged voice she convinced everyone that beauty and brains are not necessarily antithetical to one another. It was startling to hear her intellectually insightful passion as opposed to the usual vague pablum like sound-bite all-things-to-all people clichés of shop-worn campaign rhetoric.
She spoke about how her husband, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, was distinct among the plethora of Democratic candidates seeking the nomination for President. She pointed out that Dennis Kucinich actually most represents what most Democrats and the American people want. He is the only candidate to vote against the war in Iraq and against the funding that keeps it going. Kucinich has an actual bill before Congress (HR 1234) that would responsibly end the war.
He is the only candidate who has a plan (an actual bill in Congress) to have a national, non-corporate, not-for-profit, health insurance coverage for all Americans. This would be funded by saving the money that currently goes in the pockets of the wealthy insurance corporations.
He is the only candidate who voted against the police state spying Patriot Act. He would restore rule of law both under our Constitution and under International Law. Kucinich calls it “Strength through Peace” that engages the rest of the world in nuclear disarmament and in solutions to the economic problems that result in wars.
He is the only candidate who has a plan called the Works Green Administration modeled on Roosevelt’s WPA that would link and promote economic development and sustainable and environmentally safe energy solutions like wind and solar.
Kucinich is a long time advocate of universal pre-school as one way to help get at-risk children from economically and socially challenged families and neighborhoods get started on a path that leads to useful employment and not to street gangs, drugs, crime and prisons. He would fund jobs initiatives and education with the peace dividends that come from cutting back on our illegal, immoral and unnecessary wars and their huge burden of cost.
He would promote jobs and economic development by rescinding NAFTA which has sent most of manufacturing base to China. He is the only candidate who is a union member and the only one who opposes NAFTA and voted against the China Trade Agreement. As our President, Kucinich would insist on fair trade (not our so-called free trade) that would respect workers’ rights, women’s rights, health and safety, and the environment.
Elizabeth was asked to respond to the accusation that Dennis is a “spoiler.” She responded that her husband is a life-long Democrat and the one candidate who is most reflective of the values and principles that Democrats are supposed to stand for. She pointed out that her husband, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, has a long and successful political career as a Democrat who is not afraid of taking on the entrenched corporate interests and defeating incumbent Republicans.
Elizabeth also visited the feeding of the homeless by Food Not Bombs, spoke to the Hmong-American National Conference, spoke at the Peace Faire, visited the homeless living on the street near the Poverello House in the dark, and attended a reception and fundraiser in her honor hosted by noted Peace activist Jean Hays in north Fresno, and then drove back to Los Angeles for the next day’s flurry of speaking engagements.
I am looking forward to seeing a wonderful era of peace and prosperity under President Dennis Kucinich and his First Lady, Elizabeth.
Jay Hubbell
Not long after that I got a call from Sandra Marshal of San Luis Obispo who is Elizabeth’s campaign coordinator for California. She wanted me to pick a day and draw up a list of events she might be able to speak to. I picked Saturday, December 1st and gave her a list of six events. On Wednesday, just three days out from the target date. I finally got the word that Elizabeth would be able to be here.
She arrived in Reedley late Friday evening to speak to the Reedley Peace Center. The next morning she spoke to a citizens group that is trying to stop the destruction of Jessie Morrow Mountain (a burial ground that is sacred to a local Indian tribe) by a gravel mining operation.
I rendezvoused with her campaign at a lunch break at Laborer’s Hall in east Fresno where the State Party was conducting a campaign training workshop. As a thirty something and six foot or better in height with long straight flowing red hair she would do well as a model for haute couture on the runways of the world stage for latest trends in clothing. But here she was in an out of the way acoustically challenged hall in an out of the way city in a politically overlooked part of the country representing a largely ignored second tier candidate for the most important job in the world.
As soon as she spoke her first words with her clear, pleasant, audible, English accent tinged voice she convinced everyone that beauty and brains are not necessarily antithetical to one another. It was startling to hear her intellectually insightful passion as opposed to the usual vague pablum like sound-bite all-things-to-all people clichés of shop-worn campaign rhetoric.
She spoke about how her husband, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, was distinct among the plethora of Democratic candidates seeking the nomination for President. She pointed out that Dennis Kucinich actually most represents what most Democrats and the American people want. He is the only candidate to vote against the war in Iraq and against the funding that keeps it going. Kucinich has an actual bill before Congress (HR 1234) that would responsibly end the war.
He is the only candidate who has a plan (an actual bill in Congress) to have a national, non-corporate, not-for-profit, health insurance coverage for all Americans. This would be funded by saving the money that currently goes in the pockets of the wealthy insurance corporations.
He is the only candidate who voted against the police state spying Patriot Act. He would restore rule of law both under our Constitution and under International Law. Kucinich calls it “Strength through Peace” that engages the rest of the world in nuclear disarmament and in solutions to the economic problems that result in wars.
He is the only candidate who has a plan called the Works Green Administration modeled on Roosevelt’s WPA that would link and promote economic development and sustainable and environmentally safe energy solutions like wind and solar.
Kucinich is a long time advocate of universal pre-school as one way to help get at-risk children from economically and socially challenged families and neighborhoods get started on a path that leads to useful employment and not to street gangs, drugs, crime and prisons. He would fund jobs initiatives and education with the peace dividends that come from cutting back on our illegal, immoral and unnecessary wars and their huge burden of cost.
He would promote jobs and economic development by rescinding NAFTA which has sent most of manufacturing base to China. He is the only candidate who is a union member and the only one who opposes NAFTA and voted against the China Trade Agreement. As our President, Kucinich would insist on fair trade (not our so-called free trade) that would respect workers’ rights, women’s rights, health and safety, and the environment.
Elizabeth was asked to respond to the accusation that Dennis is a “spoiler.” She responded that her husband is a life-long Democrat and the one candidate who is most reflective of the values and principles that Democrats are supposed to stand for. She pointed out that her husband, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, has a long and successful political career as a Democrat who is not afraid of taking on the entrenched corporate interests and defeating incumbent Republicans.
Elizabeth also visited the feeding of the homeless by Food Not Bombs, spoke to the Hmong-American National Conference, spoke at the Peace Faire, visited the homeless living on the street near the Poverello House in the dark, and attended a reception and fundraiser in her honor hosted by noted Peace activist Jean Hays in north Fresno, and then drove back to Los Angeles for the next day’s flurry of speaking engagements.
I am looking forward to seeing a wonderful era of peace and prosperity under President Dennis Kucinich and his First Lady, Elizabeth.
Jay Hubbell
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Amazing how Elizabeth got around. Did any local media cover it?
Glad she could make it to Fresno. I know they don't have much campaign money. Thank god for alternative media.
Glad she could make it to Fresno. I know they don't have much campaign money. Thank god for alternative media.
People shouldn't be fooled by the Kucinich campaign --it's a diversion.
The guy is off on himself--he's even seriously stating now that he'd take the far-right wingnut Ron Paul as his running mate.
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/11/kucinich.mp3
Dennis is tolerated in the party because he stands for the things most thinking people stand for but --never poses any threat because he never steps out of the party to actually pose any threat to Republicrat domination.
By sucking cash and people's energy into his two failed "Presidential campaigns" --and failing to use any of that energy to lead us into a more broadbased movement, that is needed to challenge the entire Congress and conscience of this nation --by the sort of tactics outside of politics that Martin Luther King and Gandhi both used, Kucinich proves himself, as each day goes by, to be a waste of time.
But democratic party leaders like John Dean, will cravenly push Dennis forward any time they need to suck off progressive energy in the nation that might actually organize and get behind leaders to seriously challenge them.
The only big push for the Kucinich campaign recently came solely from a DFA online diversion.
We need to look for and support leaders out there willing to build a broader coalition than just a single pair of "do gooders" dependent on party hacks like John Dean has become --and hyped up on their token presidential campaign; and all the money and energy for websites, plane tours, television ads and "Kucinich for President" garbage they waste.
Nice faces make us feel "good": work will free us.
Unil these two start doing work outside of failed Presidential media campaigns, they are a gigantic waste.
The guy is off on himself--he's even seriously stating now that he'd take the far-right wingnut Ron Paul as his running mate.
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/11/kucinich.mp3
Dennis is tolerated in the party because he stands for the things most thinking people stand for but --never poses any threat because he never steps out of the party to actually pose any threat to Republicrat domination.
By sucking cash and people's energy into his two failed "Presidential campaigns" --and failing to use any of that energy to lead us into a more broadbased movement, that is needed to challenge the entire Congress and conscience of this nation --by the sort of tactics outside of politics that Martin Luther King and Gandhi both used, Kucinich proves himself, as each day goes by, to be a waste of time.
But democratic party leaders like John Dean, will cravenly push Dennis forward any time they need to suck off progressive energy in the nation that might actually organize and get behind leaders to seriously challenge them.
The only big push for the Kucinich campaign recently came solely from a DFA online diversion.
We need to look for and support leaders out there willing to build a broader coalition than just a single pair of "do gooders" dependent on party hacks like John Dean has become --and hyped up on their token presidential campaign; and all the money and energy for websites, plane tours, television ads and "Kucinich for President" garbage they waste.
Nice faces make us feel "good": work will free us.
Unil these two start doing work outside of failed Presidential media campaigns, they are a gigantic waste.
You should have met with her before you make your case.
Try to get more information, I think youre working with tainted sources.
Try to get more information, I think youre working with tainted sources.
Ralph Nader said he'll run if Clinton gets the nomination.
I can pretty much foresee that the Denver democratic convention will proceed entirely differently if the nomination of Clinton is evident, vs if anyone else gets it. That would just suck
I can pretty much foresee that the Denver democratic convention will proceed entirely differently if the nomination of Clinton is evident, vs if anyone else gets it. That would just suck
Anti-abortion Dennis Kucinich (suddenly pro-choice when running for president) is running for president to again divert the peace movement to the dead end, pro war Democrats, as he did the last time he ran. As with the entire Democratic and Republican Parties, Kucinich votes for money for Israel, the US military base that exists to protect US oil profits in the Middle East. Such a vote means the murder and torture of Palestinians and the theft of Palestinian land. His support of reactionary Ron Paul and his desire to work with Republicans to "unite the country" (he ignores all other parties) to "restore this country" to what it was before Bush, the same old genocidal, racist, anti-labor capitalism, is insulting and reactionary. Ralph Nader should run for president and so should anyone else who wishes to do so. He is currently on the Green and Peace & Freedom primary tickets in California. It is unlikely he will get the P&F nomination, but he could be on the Green Party ticket. The only 2 peace parties are the socialist (in California, the Peace & Freedom Party) and the Green Party. There is no reason to even bother discussing the Democrat-Republicans if you are for peace.
Its always unsettling to see the lengths to which people will take their anger, out on a limb somewhere taking pot shots at people trying to organize a solution. This is not what democracy looks like, its what screwballs look like who cant contain themselves to the extent that they might work with others. Perhaps your unfettered caterwauling serves a real purpose, but it clearly isnt designed to stop the killing our taxdollars support.
Im certain the anti-Kucinich hysteria has only begun to surface, it will be interesting to see the direction and source of the infection someday. For now, one can only hope the average voter is smarter than yourself.
Not unlikely I imagine. Peace will overcome, why fight it?
Im certain the anti-Kucinich hysteria has only begun to surface, it will be interesting to see the direction and source of the infection someday. For now, one can only hope the average voter is smarter than yourself.
Not unlikely I imagine. Peace will overcome, why fight it?
Question: How does the left set up a firing squad?
Answer: They form a circle.
Answer: They form a circle.
Kelly, I have met both Dennis and Elizabeth at one of their campaign stops.
As far as sources --you can't get better than Dennis' own recorded, extended, comment that he currently wants Ron Paul as his running mate.
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/11/kucinich.mp3
I think it is critical to not just look and listen to what they say, but to look --beyond the feel good --at what they Do
And what opportunities they "act" oblivious to --as they just blow shallowly past.
Dennis and Elizabeth are bypassing the opportunity, right now, to take their unprecidented, and very expensive national attention --and use it, while still not abandoning his Presidential campaign, to build some momentum that might SERIOUSLY challenge whoever will be the eventual Democratic nominee --up to very day of the election itself; or, if that sounds to bold for you --to even be prepared to massively challenge them the very day AFTER that:
to do things like build a people based-movement, now, for something like maybe pressure for demanding a Democratic party walk-out, and shutdown of Congress
--unless it finally passes things like publically-funded political campaigns from here on out. (Wouldn't that be something to watch pressure building for --during the General Election?) Or an on the Washington Mall growing encampment for this
--along with telecommunications reform: that would end the media monopolies that are daily dumbing us down at the expense of the rest of the planet.
(Wouldn't that be something to watch --while all that election cash gets shoveled disgustingly into these upcoming two-party advetising blitzes that just cheapen us all; and all the while they enrich meda greedbags?)
Or even to massively build a movement among the poor for the guaranteed income for all --that Dennis says he wants to support; or build some serious regionally, or even industry-specific-targeted, general strikes for an end to Wall Street exploitation
--in things like the airline industry?
To get something like this going --that could positively build beyond the primaries and challenge them instead of just waste our energies on them --why doesn't Dennis and Elizibeth meet with publically and encourage, some serious national movement leaders now --like Cindy Sheehan or Medea Benjiman
--or any of the scores of progressive experienced Catholic organizers like Father Roy Bourgeois, or Blaze Bonpane; or Protestant/Jewish organizers like Michael Lerner now --while they've still got a spotlight going on themselves?
If you've also got access to D and E, why not try to suggest this to them, and see what response you also get.
Why doesn't Dennis get ever Noam Chomsky speaking about the possibilities of his current campaign? Or even someone more middle class acceptable like Howard Zinn, regularly out in front with him; even now?
Or black leaders like Glen Ford? Manning Marabel, Al Sharpton: or Maxine Waters; or Donna Warren, or Cynthia McKinney: or Danny Glover? Or met with latino leaders now --like Andres Manuel Obrador; along with, say, American socialist, Juan Jose Gutierrez?
So the question is why are they are just running around to forums --of the party's little, meek, professional aparack-tokens --like at the recent Black-Brown fourm: where a bunch of salaried, sweet-faced party folks get together; people who never seem to have the backbone though, to step at all out of "party orders"; or their "foundation grants"
--and serve to keep the minions just hoping they'll get a piece of the pie someday; if they just keep standing in the line for their GR; or eight year waiting list for some pathetic token of what's left of HUD housing. These folks, that Dennis and Elizabeth seem only too happy to settle for catering to, are just playing a role --but they'll never lead us out the bankrupting, killing --Republicrat scripting of it.
Ever.
The big question for the rest of us really is --why do D and E keep running around the country like they are in some kind of vacumn --of some of the much more powerful progressive leadership than just themselves all alone?
I would like to see D and E do some of this above --so I could now continue to support them like I have in the past; but I am seeing too many, many, wasted opportunities like this in their current agenda.
Dennis is not going to win the Democratic Party nomination
--and he's not even building anything now to seriously challenge it: and push it forward, or push it aside. And he should be doing that now.
Dumping energy into him and Elizabeth --until they step outside of themselves; beyond insisting they take these steps, if they are willing; or even even capable of it, is dumping energy and talent and your meaningful life into a big, soon-to-be-deflated, lame-o balloon. I'd rather put my support and time into people like any of the more substantive, group-oriented, movement oriented leaders above; or activists like Camilo Majia; or Ehren Watada --willing to pay heavy charater-building dues to stand by what they believe; or Cindy Sheehan --before all the energy she has very positively generated, is just blown off, and leaves her all abandoned.
Dennis, on his present path is leading to make a lot of noise --but until people demand they organize for movement tactics like Martin Luther King did --movement tactics, and put their faith in the power of peoples' good energy for justice, instead of pumping people up for a big dribbling out of the ballon; it's all in time for us all to fall disorganized, and like sheep, behind HilObamward's empty politics of "sell, shine, smiles, and drivel; no substance" --for a planet that desperatey needs more than this --from its most empowered people on all the earth.
You and me.
If you want to support Dennis and E --support them to do more than just this lame-o campaigning for "President."
And insist to them that you will wisely withhold any of your support --until they do more.
Unless you just like presidential party-hardy distractions.
Si Se Puede, Hotep;
Do you Have the Strengh FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE? --Openeyes
As far as sources --you can't get better than Dennis' own recorded, extended, comment that he currently wants Ron Paul as his running mate.
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/11/kucinich.mp3
I think it is critical to not just look and listen to what they say, but to look --beyond the feel good --at what they Do
And what opportunities they "act" oblivious to --as they just blow shallowly past.
Dennis and Elizabeth are bypassing the opportunity, right now, to take their unprecidented, and very expensive national attention --and use it, while still not abandoning his Presidential campaign, to build some momentum that might SERIOUSLY challenge whoever will be the eventual Democratic nominee --up to very day of the election itself; or, if that sounds to bold for you --to even be prepared to massively challenge them the very day AFTER that:
to do things like build a people based-movement, now, for something like maybe pressure for demanding a Democratic party walk-out, and shutdown of Congress
--unless it finally passes things like publically-funded political campaigns from here on out. (Wouldn't that be something to watch pressure building for --during the General Election?) Or an on the Washington Mall growing encampment for this
--along with telecommunications reform: that would end the media monopolies that are daily dumbing us down at the expense of the rest of the planet.
(Wouldn't that be something to watch --while all that election cash gets shoveled disgustingly into these upcoming two-party advetising blitzes that just cheapen us all; and all the while they enrich meda greedbags?)
Or even to massively build a movement among the poor for the guaranteed income for all --that Dennis says he wants to support; or build some serious regionally, or even industry-specific-targeted, general strikes for an end to Wall Street exploitation
--in things like the airline industry?
To get something like this going --that could positively build beyond the primaries and challenge them instead of just waste our energies on them --why doesn't Dennis and Elizibeth meet with publically and encourage, some serious national movement leaders now --like Cindy Sheehan or Medea Benjiman
--or any of the scores of progressive experienced Catholic organizers like Father Roy Bourgeois, or Blaze Bonpane; or Protestant/Jewish organizers like Michael Lerner now --while they've still got a spotlight going on themselves?
If you've also got access to D and E, why not try to suggest this to them, and see what response you also get.
Why doesn't Dennis get ever Noam Chomsky speaking about the possibilities of his current campaign? Or even someone more middle class acceptable like Howard Zinn, regularly out in front with him; even now?
Or black leaders like Glen Ford? Manning Marabel, Al Sharpton: or Maxine Waters; or Donna Warren, or Cynthia McKinney: or Danny Glover? Or met with latino leaders now --like Andres Manuel Obrador; along with, say, American socialist, Juan Jose Gutierrez?
So the question is why are they are just running around to forums --of the party's little, meek, professional aparack-tokens --like at the recent Black-Brown fourm: where a bunch of salaried, sweet-faced party folks get together; people who never seem to have the backbone though, to step at all out of "party orders"; or their "foundation grants"
--and serve to keep the minions just hoping they'll get a piece of the pie someday; if they just keep standing in the line for their GR; or eight year waiting list for some pathetic token of what's left of HUD housing. These folks, that Dennis and Elizabeth seem only too happy to settle for catering to, are just playing a role --but they'll never lead us out the bankrupting, killing --Republicrat scripting of it.
Ever.
The big question for the rest of us really is --why do D and E keep running around the country like they are in some kind of vacumn --of some of the much more powerful progressive leadership than just themselves all alone?
I would like to see D and E do some of this above --so I could now continue to support them like I have in the past; but I am seeing too many, many, wasted opportunities like this in their current agenda.
Dennis is not going to win the Democratic Party nomination
--and he's not even building anything now to seriously challenge it: and push it forward, or push it aside. And he should be doing that now.
Dumping energy into him and Elizabeth --until they step outside of themselves; beyond insisting they take these steps, if they are willing; or even even capable of it, is dumping energy and talent and your meaningful life into a big, soon-to-be-deflated, lame-o balloon. I'd rather put my support and time into people like any of the more substantive, group-oriented, movement oriented leaders above; or activists like Camilo Majia; or Ehren Watada --willing to pay heavy charater-building dues to stand by what they believe; or Cindy Sheehan --before all the energy she has very positively generated, is just blown off, and leaves her all abandoned.
Dennis, on his present path is leading to make a lot of noise --but until people demand they organize for movement tactics like Martin Luther King did --movement tactics, and put their faith in the power of peoples' good energy for justice, instead of pumping people up for a big dribbling out of the ballon; it's all in time for us all to fall disorganized, and like sheep, behind HilObamward's empty politics of "sell, shine, smiles, and drivel; no substance" --for a planet that desperatey needs more than this --from its most empowered people on all the earth.
You and me.
If you want to support Dennis and E --support them to do more than just this lame-o campaigning for "President."
And insist to them that you will wisely withhold any of your support --until they do more.
Unless you just like presidential party-hardy distractions.
Si Se Puede, Hotep;
Do you Have the Strengh FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE? --Openeyes
Heard from another source that this "candidate" proclaimed his unwaivering support for Israel during a Demo debate? Is this true?
The elections in general with their new artifical timeline and endless campaiging are yet another distraction to the realities around us. People put more time, energy, and money to these drawn out campaigns... also what happened to the previous electoral vote fraud concerns--have these suddenly disappeared and now every one has "faith" in this broken system...
The elections in general with their new artifical timeline and endless campaiging are yet another distraction to the realities around us. People put more time, energy, and money to these drawn out campaigns... also what happened to the previous electoral vote fraud concerns--have these suddenly disappeared and now every one has "faith" in this broken system...
Thats a windy little road to nowhere youre vending. Im only responding to say bullshit.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Dear Kelly,
"Its always unsettling to see the lengths to which people will take their anger, out on a limb somewhere ..."
When you have time, I hope you'll take the time to reconsider it , then.
--Life is a long road, and you can't expect to get it in a soundbite, or upcoming presidential commercial.
These forums seem too easy for the quick retorts --and not very suited to allowing people to want to consider things deeply.
All I'm really trying to say is if you see somebody doing good, and I do believe Dennis and Elizabeth could do some real good, is push them to do the best with what opportunities they have.
Good heros lead by listening. And I deeply do not want to see the Kucinich campaign just puff up and disapate.
Why do you think that people like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky are not out there yet enthusiastically with them? Isn't it time for D and E to be building a movement, and not just a "Presidential Campaign" --now, when they are at the peak of their popular exposure?
Wouldn't it be nice to see the concept of "Presidential Campaigns" broadened out to something a little more substantial than what the Democrats are currently offering? I hope Dennis and Elizabeth could do this.
They certainly right now have the opportunity.
So why don't they?
"Its always unsettling to see the lengths to which people will take their anger, out on a limb somewhere ..."
When you have time, I hope you'll take the time to reconsider it , then.
--Life is a long road, and you can't expect to get it in a soundbite, or upcoming presidential commercial.
These forums seem too easy for the quick retorts --and not very suited to allowing people to want to consider things deeply.
All I'm really trying to say is if you see somebody doing good, and I do believe Dennis and Elizabeth could do some real good, is push them to do the best with what opportunities they have.
Good heros lead by listening. And I deeply do not want to see the Kucinich campaign just puff up and disapate.
Why do you think that people like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky are not out there yet enthusiastically with them? Isn't it time for D and E to be building a movement, and not just a "Presidential Campaign" --now, when they are at the peak of their popular exposure?
Wouldn't it be nice to see the concept of "Presidential Campaigns" broadened out to something a little more substantial than what the Democrats are currently offering? I hope Dennis and Elizabeth could do this.
They certainly right now have the opportunity.
So why don't they?
I wish you well on your journey, I can tell its a hard road, you might even have bumped your head on the way. If you have nothing better to say about the Kuciniches amid this field going into the strangest election in human history, I really have to wonder what hope you have? But I dont have to care. Im not about to get caught up having baseless discussions with either uber-partisans, holier/more intellectual/more non-violent or whatever floats your personal boat than-thous, or stroke your attention complex. Anyone who speaks ill of Elizabeth Kucinich after what I saw her do in Roeding Park is certainly not operating on the same planet, nor will I let disrespect go unchallenged. I just wont get drawn into silly discussions with morose individuals no matter how much they might need it. Obviously there will be an intensifying opposition to a candidate with an appeal based on consistent principals that make other candidacies look hollow and hypocritical. Whether that flack comes from War, Insurance and Wal-Mart supporting LCD democrats or deluded hyperprogressives, it really doesnt matter. The average American voter is ready and willing to give Dennis a chance, particularly because his wife speaks so well for him in so many ways. Its those who think the rest of America is stupider than they, who have some contextual difficulties making judgements about others...
Lots of hope.
But unlike Dennis and Elizabeth --until they do more --too much to limit it: or throw it away.
Peace,
Openeyes
But unlike Dennis and Elizabeth --until they do more --too much to limit it: or throw it away.
Peace,
Openeyes
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