Belisarius for Kucinich

[eridani]

http://home.earthlink.net/~count_belisarius/

If you're against the war in Iraq, against NAFTA, for universal health care, against the death penalty, for decriminalization, and so on, you can (1) not vote, and take whichever candidate your opponents choose; (2) vote for someone who's against everything you believe in; or (3) vote for someone who believes and has acted on exactly what you believe in. He has no chance to get the nomination? Maybe not, but he's changing what the presumptive nominee talks about. The only way to force the Democrats to be anything other than what they really are, which is Republicans, is to make it clear to them that they will lose again if they don't claim to agree with you. And people are doing that in surprisingly large numbers as the campaign goes on. Here's John Nichols in The Nation (which, in another bad sign of success recently passed William F. Buckley's National Review in circulation:)

Kucinich's 30 percent finish tied the strongest previous showing in any primary or caucus for a candidate stressing an anti-war message: Dean's 30 percent showing in Washington state.

As Dennis says:

It's time for America to resume its glorious journey: time to reject shrinking jobs and wages, disappearing savings and rights; time to reject the detour towards fear and greed. It's time to look out upon the world for friends, not enemies; time to counter the control of corporations over our politics, our economy, our resources, and mass media. It's time for those who have much to help those who have little, by maintaining a progressive tax structure. It's time to tell the world that we wish to be their partner in peace, not their leader in war. Most of all, it is time for America to again be the land where dreams come true, because the government is on the side of its people.

[burrowowl]

1. Yes

true Dems should be for DK and even all the screwed of America.
However, the propaganda machine in place since before Ray-gun, but especially with Ray-Gun and afterwards has taken its toll.
Murkans think that far-right is leftist as compared to extreme-right.
To paraphase Gore Vidal: Murika has 2 right wings. That is why we are flying in an ever tightening circle of destruction. Or to translate Ionesco: Take a circle, any circle, caresss it, it becomes vicious.

[ThirdWheelLegend]

2. two right wings. great point

Two right wings, both headed in the same direction, just one is quicker and more blatant about it. The other(D) smiles and slows it down a bit as to sedate the public.

TWL

[revcarol]

3. (Wish I had that AZ techie mag article handy)

In an interview, Dennis said something like:

WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT AMERICA when we consider saving people's retirement, educating our children, promoting diplomacy and cooperation instead of war and giving people priority over corporations to be RADICAL IDEAS?

We have indeed sunk low.
But we have one PRACTICAL MAN OF ACTION AND VISION to help us dig our way out.

God keep you safe, Dennis Kucinich.:yourock: