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Post by michelle on Dec 13, 2006 18:22:16 GMT 4
It's time for a leader like Dennis Kucinich
My admiration for Dennis Kucinich is no secret. He's recently announced his Candidacy for President! I will continue to post here news of all the good work and speeches he makes until this MAN OF LIGHT IS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT....Michelle Announcement of Candidacy for President of the United StatesDear Friend, We are living in a time of great tests of our humanity, which also present great opportunities for transformation. The war in Iraq is a veil that shrouds our creativity and our potential for prosperity. It cuts us off from the world at a time when it is imperative that we acknowledge our interdependence and interconnectedness. This is a moment with a profound feeling of destiny. America has been an extraordinary international power to manifest that which we focus our energies upon. This power is true of individuals as well as nations. [Note: see Elizabeth J Kucinich's article below]In a way, when we focus on terror, we bring to ourselves that which we fear. We focused on terror in Iraq and paradoxically helped to create the circumstances, which have propelled Iraq into civil war and chaos. The prestigious Lancet report on excess casualties in Iraq estimates that the war in Iraq has caused 655,000 Iraqi deaths, and that 20% of those deaths are a direct result of the actions of coalition forces. This war sacrifices the lives of innocent Iraqis, the lives of our troops, and the physical resources and good will of our nation. We are sacrificing our financial future, borrowing money from Beijing to occupy Baghdad in a war that military generals and the Iraqi Study Group have concluded is impossible to win militarily. We are focusing our resources on the power of destruction rather than the vision of a world in which we want to live: A world of prosperity and peace, equity, beauty and justice. It is time for us to stand together to bring the troops home and stand by the people of Iraq through implementing a real policy for the security, recovery, reconciliation and restoration of their nation. We as a nation have the opportunity to embrace the challenges of our time and take a new direction, starting with ending the war in Iraq. The leaders of my party have said that they will not stop funding the war, and are openly supporting a supplementary appropriations bill for an additional one hundred and sixty billion dollars ($160,000,000,000), on top of the $70,000,000,000 that was appropriated to Iraq for financial year 2007, back in October of this year. This would bring war expenditure for 2007 to $230 billion, double the expenditure of 2006, and by far the largest appropriation of the war so far. Today, I announced my candidacy for President of the United States in a quest to call my party to courage and integrity on this issue. This is a journey upon which I hope you will join together with me to ensure that our country calls forth our great potential with the same courage of our forefathers and mothers who birthed the vision for our great nation. You can see a video of my Announcement speech on www.kucinich.us (Our site has undergone its own transformation!) Our campaign will change the direction of the Democratic Party, the war in Iraq and our nation. Please join me to help make this great turning possible. Thank you Dennis Kucinich -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Printed version of announcement: kucinich.us/files/KucinichAnnouncement.pdf--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some comments at Dennis's site:
Proud and Afraid at the Same TimeSubmitted by Vincent Amato on December 13, 2006 - 08:08. I just awakened to catch Rep. Kucinich's announcement on C-Span. I was proud to be an American as I listened to him speak. His is the true spirit of what it means to be an American. At the same time, I am fearful. It is frightening that Rep. Kucinich can be caricatured as a Don Quijote when, as he so eloquently points out, the U.S. voters gave all members of the Democratic Party a mandate to end the war in Iraq. One voice. It is a voice I intend to support in every way I can. The silent Democrats, those who began backtracking even before they took their seats as a newly elected majority must be given the message: You were sent here by the people with a mission and a mandate to end this war--not to temporize, procrastinate and double-talk. Your complicity in the war must end. It's time for a leader like Dennis KucinichSubmitted by crosier on December 12, 2006 - 19:31. Since I heard about Dennis' announcement, I haven't been able to think of hardly anything else.The so-called "leading" Democrats drift along without goals or vision, and continue on their path towards destruction of the Dem. party. They're ignoring what even the mainstream media said was the voters' main concern in the Nov. elections (Iraq). Just in time, Dennis steps forward as a real leader. A real leader is not afraid to give us a vision, nor to say what he believes in rather than what he thinks is acceptable to the media pundits. A real leader isn't afraid to talk about real solutions to Operation Iraq Quagmire, domestic needs that are being ignored, and the Department of Peace. Dennis is that leader.A few weeks ago, I was asked at a forum what I was proud of in my life. I said I was proud to have supported Dennis Kucinich for President. He was right in 2003-4, and he's right now.Dennis, you are going to make me proud again. Our country, and the world needs you. Thanks for doing this!Dennis is standing up for peace and for people everywhere. I'm standing up for Dennis.Anxious to get organizing for Dennis again, Bill Crosier Progressive Action Alliance Houston TX area coordinator, Kucinich for President 2004 I'm thrilled!Submitted by Maggie on December 12, 2006 - 19:15. It is a great delight to canvas and caucus for a candidate that one can support fully, without a single reservation. This campaign affords me that rare and wonderful opportunity.I've been absolutely beaming all day long, and have been more than happy to explain why to anyone that asks! Dennis made my daySubmitted by bacare on December 12, 2006 - 18:58. Dennis made my day. For him politics is not just a series of cheap tricks and deception but a most important means to serve the interests of all the nation and not just some powerful interests groups. I wish he won and restored the image of America compromised by the Clinton Administration and even more badly by the Bush Administration.GO DENNIS GO! Great speechSubmitted by Ivanhoe on December 12, 2006 - 18:45. I'm glad you announced early, this time. From all the emails I've been receiving, it looks as you are easily the most popular candidate in the race. There is even a poll at DU (where they've been kicking off practically everyone who's not DLC) and you are winning. I guess that the DLC is no match for Kucinich supporters. On that poll, Gore is in second place, behind you. The link is www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2898660&mesg_id=2898660 This is really cool. I get to vote for you this time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peace - Compassion - MindfulnessSubmitted by Elizabeth Kucinich on December 6, 2006 - 20:44. Middle East There's a brutal imperial power that my passport says I represent but it'll never represent where my heart lies only vaguely where it went. When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance you have to believe that mercy has its own country and that it's round and borderless. --Ani DiFrancoAs experience and Buddha teaches, life is suffering. Instead of being pessimistic, suggesting that everything is likely to lead to a bad outcome, the Buddha taught that there is a way to end suffering. In the teachings of the four noble truths, the Buddha outlined that life is suffering; suffering is caused by craving and aversion; suffering can be overcome and happiness can be attained, and that the Noble eight-fold path will lead to an end to suffering. The eight-fold path is a focusing of the mind on being fully aware of our thoughts and actions, developing wisdom by understanding the Four Noble Truths and by having compassion for others. It is this compassion, this mindfulness, being conscious of consciousness that we dearly need to channel into our lives and into our world. Our taxes, our nation’s creativity and our name stands by decisions to destroy from afar, to maneuver injustice and to cause great suffering through a disconnection from our humanity, the light of our spirit. I met a family of women in a town in South Lebanon. Precious little now stood in what was once a thriving community. The matriarch of the family recounted how two generations of her family were killed before her eyes. Her grown up daughter had been shot 6 times at close range from their occupied home. A surviving daughter watched in horror as her six year old daughter was shot dead. The remaining family and children were in a desperate emotional state. Family and friends dead. Their town in ruins. Their home littered with bullet holes. An unexploded bomb in the bathroom. Their kitchen sporting a window screen punctured with the six bullet holes made when their daughter/sister/aunt was shot. In village after village we saw shop keepers sitting on salvaged chairs on the street outside the front of what was once their shop, but was now a pile of rubble; nothing to sell and no one to sell to. I spoke with doctors who tended to the wounded. I stepped over many unexploded cluster bombs while walking through ruined streets and saw children playing next to exposed land mines. It was not until I visited this conflict zone that I truly acknowledged the dark side of the human spirit, the energy, resources and political maneuvering that enables the creation, development, public financing and use of such a vast array of heinous weapons. The bellman’s story is the one that I would like to share with you. He came to our room to collect our bags. He had watched the television coverage of Dennis’ and my tour in Lebanon and felt he knew the spirit of our hearts from the articles he had read in the newspapers, to which he responded by opening his heart to us. Unlike many we had met, he had not been directly affected by the bombing raids on Beirut, his home was intact, his family unharmed and his job secure; but this man, this strong father of three stood in the doorway and broke down into tears During the bombing of the southern suburbs of Beirut, bombing that completely flattened block after block of 8 storey apartment buildings, our friend the bellman was sheltering in his home several miles away from the affected area with his family. He described how utterly helpless he felt, the force of the bombs shaking his home, the noise too loud to bear. He described with the shame of a father who was unable to protect his family, his youngest son’s reaction. Overcome with terror, he told his father that his heart felt it was about to burst out of his chest and that he thought he was going to die. This little boy was only one of thousands of people who were affected that day by severe emotional trauma. The bellman described how he had lived through Israeli occupation and the civil war, how the region was just beginning to show signs of great recovery, its people had overcome their previous years of grief and their country had restored itself. Finally Lebanon was enjoying peace, a peace that the nation had craved. Then came this wave of terror, suffered on both sides of the border. Bombs made in the US, many paid for by US foreign military aid were being used to take Lebanon’s economy back 20 years and wipe whole areas off the map, opening the scars of previous decades. Why? was the bellman’s question. We want to live in peace with our neighbors. He expressed deep compassion and forgiveness, deep understanding for the pain that families in Northern Israel, too, were feeling. All victims of a political inability to talk and failed policies of retaliation. It was as I listened to this man’s story that my realization of the interconnectedness of the human experience was truly grasped. It was a story I had heard in similar words from the hearts of many villagers whose lives, livelihoods and communities had been completely destroyed in South Lebanon; city dwellers who had lost their homes in Beirut. Each carrying feelings of utter helplessness, complete terror, fearful for their children’s lives and future, war weary from past decades of violence. Yet at the same time their compassion and open heartedness was a miracle of the capacity for human forgiveness. I experienced it deeply and it transformed my understanding of the world.. The suffering of our friend the bellman is the suffering of the people of Lebanon, the people of Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq… As Clausewitz is so famously quoted, "war is a continuation of politics by other means". War marks a breakdown, unwillingness or inability to engage in the science of human relations, in the acknowledgement of the humanity and sacredness of the other, dialogue. Reflect for a moment upon the human tragedy that is war, a tragedy of the human spirit. Yet how do wars end? Do they end on the battlefield? No, they end when parties come together to negotiate. Wars end when disparate groups talk. War has never worked as a means to justice, only to dominance of power. War is bankrupting our nation and each nation that wages war and that war is waged against. As the nation with a military budget greater than all other nations of the world combined, and the largest arms manufacturer and seller in the world, how long will we stand idly by watching our brothers and sisters killing each other with weapons that we have supplied and in many cases paid for? For how long can we maintain this split of our consciousness from our conscience? Now is time the time to speak out for peace and justice, and to act in peace and justice. Together we are able to create a shift in global consciousness through our own personal expressions of compassion, mindfulness, conscience of consciousness in our lives and into our world. As the oceans have land beneath them, reaching out to other continents, so our lives are connected in a vast, unseen way to the sacred web of creation. Elizabeth J Kucinich Elizabeth@Kucinich.us Source: kucinich.us/node/577Also here: Related Video Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich - Southern Suburbs, Beirut Ani DiFranco
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Post by michelle on Dec 21, 2006 9:29:30 GMT 4
Kucinich Plans Another Presidential BidDecember 11, 2006, CBS News/Associated Press www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/11/politics/main2248157.shtmlDemocratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004, said Monday he is planning another bid because his party isn't pushing hard enough to end the Iraq war. The liberal, anti-war Ohio congressman said he was inspired to run because he disagrees with the way some of his fellow Democrats are handling the war, including approval of a proposal to spend $160 billion more on the conflict. "Democrats were swept into power on Nov. 7 because of widespread voter discontent with the war in Iraq," said Kucinich, 60. "Instead of heeding those concerns and responding with a strong and immediate change in policies and direction, the Democratic congressional leadership seems inclined to continue funding the perpetuation of the war." The anti-war message was also the cornerstone of Kucinich's 2004 bid, which drew support from some Hollywood celebrities. His previous presidential proposals also have included a national peace department and a single-payer, universal health care system. Note:Coverage of the occasional successes of Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 Democratic primary campaign were clearly suppressed. When Kucinich took second place in Hawaii with 26% of the vote, almost twice the 14% of John Edwards, most major media gave Edwards name, but didn't even mention Kucinich, saying only that a "third candidate" took second place. The media seems not to like anti-war candidates. SEE: www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/primaries/pages/states/HI/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why should you support Dennis Kucinich? How about these reasons:
Because early on he struggled and voted against the Bush war. Dennis Kucinich is leading the fight against war with Iran. Dennis is also leading the fight to end the war in Iraq and he is opposing the funding that is keeping the war going.
Because he's a principled person who wants to serve the people, and serve the cause of peace for all people.
Because Kucinich is the leader who will stand up to the corporate forces.
Because he has strong moral character and the guts to speak truth to power.
Because Dennis Kucinich is the only member of Congress with a perfect voting record. He is the one person who can always be counted on to vote his conscience.
Because most members of Congress have sold out on the free trade issue. They get money from corporations to allow those corporations to fire American workers and hire underpaid foreign workers (often children) who work in inhumane conditions. Dennis Kucinich always stands up to and opposes these free trade bills.
Because last year and the year before, the vast majority of members of Congress voted for a bill that funds Yucca Mountain, a dangerous project that threatens California’s food and water supply. Yet, Dennis Kucinich, half way across the country, voted against these nuclear bills. Pelosi voted for them and against the interests of the people of her own state.
Because Dennis represents what we have never before seen in public politics, a principled man of integrity; precisely the kind of leadership desperately needed in this country, and the kind of leadership now sorely lacking.
Below, Joshua Scheer at Truthdig has posted an interview, newspaper articles and TV news stories which show the great courage it took for the then 32 year old Mayor, Dennis Kucinich, to save Cleveland's public power system.
The city went into default, because the banks would only accept the public utility as payment on the city's debt. Nothing else would do. Then-Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich in 1978, when he was under siege by Cleveland’s business community, its media and many local private interest groups—all of which were pushing him to sell the city’s publicly owned municipal power plant. His principled refusal to do so kept him out of public office for the next 20 years. He now serves as a U.S. congressman from Ohio.
The story exposes the very real issues of corporate greed, media manipulation and corruption all of which were overcome when the people were supported by the very courageous Mayor, Dennis Kucinich.
Please support Dennis's work by making a contribution at www.kucinich.us/contributeMichelle[/color] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Charge of the Muny Light BrigadePosted on Dec 14, 2006 By Joshua Scheer TRUTHDIG: When the chips fell, they fell pretty hard. You were forced out of public life for nearly 20 years. In hindsight, do you stand by your decision to do this? KUCINICH: Every public official or aspiring public official who would read this interview should remember that when you take a public trust, the most important thing is to defend the public interest. There’s always some kind of a deal out there where someone is out there to convince you that if you just go along with this particular matter, it’ll be good for your career; it’ll show people that you know how to come to reason. Deals like Muny Light are out there every day for politicians who want to get in with certain interest groups, who want to advance their career. This isn’t condemnation of people who do it, but that’s just so much of what politics is about: People decide, “Well, I’m going to do something I really don’t like, but I’ll stay in office and I’ll be able to help people some other time.” There are millions of little bargains that take place like that every day. It’s just that I saw something else: I saw that this had immediate economic relevance for the people of Cleveland, and also for everyone who was ever in public life who felt like they needed to take a stand and were looking for the courage to do it. Because any one of us can inform all of us that it’s OK, that life is going to go on, that you can stand up for what you believe in, that you don’t have to sell out, that you don’t have to sell your soul, that you don’t have to let someone else determine the circumstances under which you are in public service. So this was a wonderful opportunity for me, having been the youngest mayor of the city of Cleveland, who had this chance to stand up for the public interest—at a critical moment, when everything was on the line, and all the odds were stacked against me ... I stood up for the people. And years later they knew I was right. Years later they put me back in the state Senate, and they followed up by putting me in Congress, and I win elections in Cleveland now by huge majorities. And I’m grateful for that. But I knew in 1978 when I refused to sell that electric system, I knew the bank was going to follow up on its threat to put the city of Cleveland in default. I also knew I’d lose the next election—which I did. But there are, believe it or not, some things more important than holding public office. And what’s important is that when it comes your turn to make the decision, you stand up, you don’t relent, and you—in the words of “Prometheus Unbound” by Shelley—you defy power which seems omnipotent. And that is what it means to be joyous and free. If you are going to want to be a torchbearer for the freedom of the people, you have to be free yourself. TRUTHDIG: There’s a lot of debate over the regulation and deregulation of energy companies. But this was not really a deregulation-regulation debate, right? You were trying to prevent a monopoly. KUCINICH: Right. This was an issue of: Do the people have the right to own their own utility? The question is: Is there such a thing as the public domain? Is it appropriate for governments to operate water systems, sewer systems, parks, libraries, public services? The man who founded Muny Light 100 years ago, Mayor Tom Johnson, said something to this effect: I believe in the public ownership of all municipal service utilities, because if you do not own them, they will in time own you. They will rule your politics, corrupt your institutions, and finally destroy your liberties. The issue of public ownership has huge implications today for the people of the United States: It relates to whether or not we can have a public retirement system like Social Security, which has been under attack in a privatization scheme. It relates to whether or not we can have a public health system through a universal single-payer system instead of this system we have today, in which 100 million people are either uninsured or under-insured, because the system is held by private interests. It relates to the question of whether public education is going to be adequately funded. It relates to the theft of natural resources—of oil companies using their power to get leases and mining companies using their power to grab public lands, or everyone looking at public resources as something to be looted. This same destructive impulse is evident in the policies of the International Monetary Fund—the so-called structural adjustment policies, which force communities to give up publicly owned assets in order to gain access to capital, and then the people end up paying exorbitant amounts of money for services which used to be provided directly to the people. This question of public control was at the center of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell speech, where he said to beware of the military/industrial complex. Today we see the privatization of war reflected in mercenaries and contractors in Iraq, who will make of the war in Iraq a perpetuating industry. It relates to this destructive ethic of privatization, which is being visited on the people of Iraq right now, with the attempt by interest groups to push changes in national law which pave the way for the privatization of the oil industry. These are the kinds of questions that are central to issues of democratic governance. These are questions that are central to the very idea of a polity which exists for the public interest, as opposed to the private interest. So go all the way back to Dec. 15, 1978, and my decision had implications far into the future. And I can see the same kinds of schemes that are out there today that try to steal or defraud the public of what is really a heritage of the people. And for my part, what I learned in Cleveland in 1978 is that it is possible to stand up; and you may pay a price, but what is the most important thing in life is the triumph of principle; and nothing, no high office, no monuments, no false praise from media working against the public interest, is a substitute for being at peace and one with integrity. TRUTHDIG: Thanks for shedding light on this; because when you read encapsulations of your public career, you usually only read that you ended your mayorship in controversy. KUCINICH: When people look at the issue of default and they connect it with my name, they should also connect with my name a “Not for Sale” sign. They should connect with my name the essence of public power. *Truthdig interviewer Joshua Scheer worked as an entry-level staffer on Kucinich’s state Senate campaign and was later a summer associate in his congressional office. In this weekly interview series, Rep. Kucinich gives his take on the goings-on in Congress in the wake of the Democrats’ victory and addresses other matters. Source: www.truthdig.com/interview/page2/20061214_battle_muny_light/
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Post by michelle on Dec 24, 2006 14:41:54 GMT 4
The CQPolitics Interview: Dennis KucinichDecember 15, 2006 "People aren't looking for the Democrats to be better managers of the war, they want the Democrats to end the war and to bring our troops home." - Dennis KucinichRep. Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio this week became the second officeholder to announce a bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. And since the other candidate is retiring Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, Kucinich is the first member of Congress to officially enter the Democrats’ presidential sweepstakes. He also is the first repeat candidate for the party’s 2004 White House field. Kucinich did not gain serious political traction that year — earning less than 4 percent of the overall primary vote — and his candidacy was largely seen as a symbolic effort to represent the liberal activist wing of the party. In an interview Thursday with Marie Horrigan of CQPolitics.com, Kucinich made it clear that he again will emphasize the trademark issue of his 2004 campaign: his fervent opposition to the Iraq war, which he described as “a Hydra-headed disaster.” Kucinich contends he is the only current or likely candidate in the 2008 Democratic field to reject the war from the beginning and also to vote against funding the war. He touts this as a credential that will make him a much stronger contender in his second run than in his first. “I’m in a position to save the presidency for the Democratic Party and to be elected the next president because people will know not only is there someone who has had the foresight on this and a plan, but people will know that my leadership can implement the plan,” he said. The 60-year-old Kucinich has a political career notable for its iconoclasm and its ups and downs. He took a seat on the Cleveland City Council in 1969 at age 22; his election as mayor in 1977 drew him national notice as a political “boy wonder.” But his stormy tenure lasted only two years, during which he had to weather a recall election. Kucinich returned briefly to the city council in the early 1980s. The loser of U.S. House bids in 1972 and 1974, he ran for that office again and lost in 1988 and 1992. Yet in one of the strongest second acts in recent American politics, Kucinich won a state Senate seat in 1994 and then in 1996 won the Cleveland-based 10th District seat that he has held since. Popular on his home turf, which has a strongly Democratic lean, Kucinich won re-election Nov. 7 with 66 percent of the vote. The following are excerpts from the interview.
CLIP - read this interview at news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20061215/pl_cq_politics/thecqpoliticsinterviewdenniskucinichHere is the conclusion:CQ: And just one final question, in terms of the nitty-gritty of campaigning, a number of potential candidates who have not even thrown their hats in the ring yet have astronomical amounts of money — one person who comes to mind is [New York] Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Do you feel that you will be able to compete in terms of campaign fundraising to run a competitive campaign? Kucinich: I think it’s possible to be elected president of the United States without outspending other people, and I’ll tell you why: because this election is not going to be about money, it’s going to be about truth, and it’s going to be about integrity. And I’m on a quest for integrity, and people respond to that and they’re looking for a candidate not just who’s gifted of tremendous financial resources, but who’s gifted of integrity, gifted of truth, gifted of foresight, gifted of leadership. And so I think that as people look at our campaign they’re going to support it. ... But you know what? I can’t say that I had planned to run this time. I knew after the Democrats came back and we had our caucuses returning from the Thanksgiving break, I knew when I heard our leaders start to talk about continuing funding for our war, I knew that I had to step forward. I knew I had to step forward for the young men and women whose lives are on the line while leaders in Washington temporize, I have to step forward for their families who are worried about whether their loved ones are ever going to return. I have to step forward for the people of Iraq who are left in unimaginable violence. ... I want to change this. I have to. As I said in my announcement, my conscience calls me to action here, and because I’ve been consistent and because I understand exactly what’s going on and because I’m in a singular position right now, I expect that I’m on my way to being elected president of the United States.Blessings to Dennis Kucinich....I am so ready for a leader such as he....How about you, America?.......Michelle
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Post by michelle on Dec 31, 2006 2:30:37 GMT 4
A New Year of Peace, Prosperity, Hope
Dear Friend,
A New Year of Peace, Prosperity, Hope: All possibilities exist prospectively as we look forward to 2007.
Each one of us holds transformational capabilities to engage the world constructively through the images of the future we hold in our mind. Our thoughts have power. The power of intent together with action transforms our lives and our world.
We invite you to join with us on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, wherever you gather with family and friends, to hold fast the intention to create structures of peace in our society by inviting everyone with whom you come into contact to join this intentional effort to make a practical reality our dynamic vision of peace.
The Kucinich Campaign is a race for the Presidency, and much more. It is about helping every person reach his or her own highest potential as citizens of America and the world. It is about empowering ourselves and each other in a joyous realization of our highest aspirations.
Of course peace is possible. Peace is already the practical, overriding existent reality of our lives; it describes our loves, our joys, our dreams and we rely on it for our future. Some would have us buy into war as the fundamental, inevitable perpetual condition of the world. This is a lie which we buy into at our greatest peril. We are called upon to respond with courage and with truth from the wellspring of our humanity.
The world is in a situation of urgency on many levels, but we still have a window of opportunity around which we can rally to enable great transformational changes. The situation in Iraq is salvageable with the right leadership and a change in approach. The damage to our global climate can be repaired, if we are willing to pursue new directions, new technologies and a renewed commitment to individual action to protect our air, our water, our land.
Let us, in this annual celebration of our humanity, call forth the buoyant, expectant energies of the New Year and harness them to quicken the impulse toward positive change. The economic stability of our communities and the physical and spiritual health of our nation depend upon our commitment to practical paths toward renewal. That is the power which stands behind all New Year's resolutions.
Let us resolve, then, to join in a collective effort to create a new world. The Presidency becomes the catalyst for powerful, transformative change, a new American evolution, spiraling upward along paths of clarity, strength, vision, determination and action.
Let us collectively have a bright encounter with the energies of the New Year and make 2007 the year of which future generations will say: "That is when the change began. That is when we began to create with courage a new nation and a new world."
We wish you a joyful New Year!
Dennis and Elizabeth
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Post by michelle on Jan 7, 2007 17:43:05 GMT 4
Dennis Kucinich - The Voice Of The New American Majority 1/7/07 5:01:58 AM Eastern Standard Time
Dear Friends,
Let us tell everyone the good news: we can have the America we want! We can have a nation which relates to the aspirations of people for good paying jobs, health care for all, education, solid retirement, a clean environment, a government that is capable of creating peace and prosperity. Our hearts long for something better for our families and our nation. In our hearts we know that the conditions that exist today can be changed. This campaign gives you a chance to put your resources where your heart is.
With a majority of Americans supporting my position on Iraq and with me being the leading voice for a new direction in US international policy, we have enormous fundraising potential, and the greatest potential to be elected President when we unite our efforts.
Today, I will appear live on CNN’s Late Edition (11am-1pm ET) to discuss my presidential campaign.
On Monday morning in New York City, I will unveil a comprehensive Iraq exit strategy at a news conference with major media already confirming attendance.
At noon I will present an address at Jesse Jackson’s Wall Street Project, entitled "Out of Iraq and Back to the American Cities."
On Monday afternoon I will appear live in the New York studios of Fox TV’s Neil Cavuto Show and then return to Washington to meet with Congressional leaders to discuss my plan regarding Iraq.
People are ready to listen because they realize that everything I said four years ago about Iraq turned out to be true. People want a new, authentic direction. That is what they voted for in November when they made Democrats the majority. I am leading the way.
"Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." The nation is ready to respond. We need the resources to make the call.
The concept is simple: I am asking you, and each and every one of my supporters to help raise or to contribute at least $1000 for the campaign. You can sponsor a gathering for one hundred people at $10 each. You can sponsor a fundraiser and invite your closest friends. Or you may be able to make a contribution of $1000. The maximum contribution for an individual is $2,100.
Our goal is to raise our first $10 million. If you are interested in participating in our fundraising campaign or would like to organize a fundraiser, please send us an email at: fundraising@kucinich.us. Then we will email you a guide to assist you in your effort. Elizabeth and I would love to support you in your endeavors by phoning into your gatherings, sending a video or perhaps even joining you.
The nation is ready to respond. We need the resources to make the call. So please join me in this new effort. Please join people from across America in calling forth a new American reality.
Help make it happen today by going to kucinich.us to make a contribution and register for our fundraising campaign.
Today, together we take our first step to the White House, towards peace, prosperity and the presidency.
Thank you,
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Post by michelle on Jan 10, 2007 16:48:37 GMT 4
The Kucinich Plan for Iraq 1/8/07 6:03:14 PM
Dear Friends,
In November of 2006, after an October upsurge in violence in Iraq, the American people moved decisively to reject Republican rule, principally because of the conduct of the war. Democratic leaders well understand we regained control of the Congress because of the situation in Iraq. However, two months later, the Congress is still searching for a plan around which it can unite to hasten the end of US involvement in Iraq and the return home of 140,000 US troops.
There is a compelling need for a new direction in Iraq, one that recognizes the plight of the people of Iraq, the false and illegal basis of the United States war against Iraq, the realities on the ground which make a military resolution of the conflict unrealistic and the urgent responsibility of the United States, which caused the chaos, to use the process of diplomacy and international law to achieve stability in Iraq, a process which will establish peace and stability in Iraq allow our troops to return home with dignity.
The Administration is preparing to escalate the conflict. They intend to increase troop numbers to unprecedented levels, without establishing an ending date for the so-called troop surge. By definition, this escalation means a continuation of the occupation, more troop and civilian casualties, more anger toward the US, more support for the insurgency, more instability in Iraq and in the region, and prolonged civil war at a time when there is a general agreement in the world community that the solution in Iraq must be political not military. Iraq is now a training ground for insurgents who practice against our troops.
What is needed is a comprehensive political process. And the decision is not President Bush's alone to make.
Congress, as a coequal branch of government has a responsibility to assist in the initiation of this process. Congress, under Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution has the war-making power. Congress appropriates funds for the war. Congress does not dispense with its obligation to the American people simply by opposing a troop surge in Iraq.
There are 140,000 troops remaining in Iraq right now. What about them? When will they come home? Why would we leave those troops in Iraq when we have the money to bring them home? Soon the President will ask for more money for the war. Why would Congress appropriate more money to keep the troops in Iraq through the end of President Bush's term, at a total cost of upwards of two trillion dollars and thousands of more troop casualties, when military experts say there is no military solution? Our soldiers stand for us in the field, we must to stand for them in our legislature by bringing them home.
It is simply not credible to maintain that one opposes the war and yet continues to fund it. This contradiction runs as a deep fault line through our politics, undermining public trust in the political process and in those elected to represent the people. If you oppose the war, then do not vote to fund it.
If you have money which can be used to bring the troops home or to prosecute the war, do not say you want to bring the troops home while you appropriate money in a supplemental to keep them in Iraq fighting a war that cannot be won militarily. This is why the Administration should be notified now that Congress will not approve of the appropriations request of up to $160 billion in the spring for the purposes of continuing the occupation and the war. Continuing to fund the war is not a plan. It would represent the continuation of disaster.
The US sent our troops into Iraq without a clear mission. We created a financial, military and moral dilemma for our nation and now we are talking about the Iraq war as our problem. The Iraqis are forgotten. Their country has been destroyed: 650,000 casualties, [based on the Lancet Report which surveyed casualties from March of 2003 to July of 2006] the shredding of the social fabric of the nation, civil war, lack of access to food, shelter, electricity, clean drinking water and health care because this Administration, with the active participation of the Congress, authorized a war without reason, without conscience, without international law.
The US thinks in terms of solving our own military, strategic, logistical, and political problems. The US can determine how to solve our problems, but the Iraqi people will have problems far into the future. This requires an intensive focus on the processes needed to stabilize Iraq. If you solve the Iraqi problem you solve the US problem. Any comprehensive plan for Iraq must take into account as a primary matter the conditions and the needs of the Iraqi people, while providing our nation with a means of righting grievous wrongs and taking steps to regain US credibility and felicity within the world community.
I am offering such a plan today. This plan responds to the concerns of a majority of Americans. On Tuesday, when Congress resumes its work, I will present this plan to leadership and members as the only viable alternative to the Bush Administration's policy of continued occupation and escalation. Congress must know that it cannot and must not stand by and watch our troops and innocent Iraqi civilians die.
These are the elements of the Kucinich Plan:
1. The US announces it will end the occupation, close military bases and withdraw. The insurgency has been fueled by the occupation and the prospect of a long-term presence as indicated by the building of permanent bases. A US declaration of an intention to withdraw troops and close bases will help dampen the insurgency which has been inspired to resist colonization and fight invaders and those who have supported US policy. Furthermore this will provide an opening where parties within Iraq and in the region can set the stage for negotiations towards peaceful settlement.
2. US announces that it will use existing funds to bring the troops and necessary equipment home. Congress appropriated $70 billion in bridge funds on October 1st for the war. Money from this and other DOD accounts can be used to fund the troops in the field over the next few months, and to pay for the cost of the return of the troops, (which has been estimated at between $5 and $7 billion dollars) while a political settlement is being negotiated and preparations are made for a transition to an international security and peacekeeping force.
3. Order a simultaneous return of all US contractors to the United States and turn over all contracting work to the Iraqi government. The contracting process has been rife with world-class corruption, with contractors stealing from the US Government and cheating the Iraqi people, taking large contracts and giving 5% or so to Iraqi subcontractors.
Reconstruction activities must be reorganized and closely monitored in Iraq by the Iraqi government, with the assistance of the international community. The massive corruption as it relates to US contractors, should be investigated by congressional committees and federal grand juries. The lack of tangible benefits, the lack of accountability for billions of dollars, while millions of Iraqis do not have a means of financial support, nor substantive employment, cries out for justice.
It is noteworthy that after the first Gulf War, Iraqis reestablished electricity within three months, despite sanctions. Four years into the US occupation there is no water, nor reliable electricity in Baghdad, despite massive funding from the US and from the Madrid conference. The greatest mystery involves the activities of private security companies who function as mercenaries. Reports of false flag operations must be investigated by an international tribunal.
4. Convene a regional conference for the purpose of developing a security and stabilization force for Iraq. The focus should be on a process which solves the problems of Iraq. The US has told the international community, "This is our policy and we want you to come and help us implement it." The international community may have an interest in helping Iraq, but has no interest in participating in the implementation of failed US policy.
A shift in US policy away from unilateralism and toward cooperation will provide new opportunities for exploring common concerns about the plight of Iraq. The UN is the appropriate place to convene, through the office of the Secretary General, all countries that have interests, concerns and influence, including the five permanent members of the Security Council and the European community, and all Arab nations.
The end of the US occupation and the closing of military bases are necessary preconditions for such a conference. When the US creates a shift of policy and announces it will focus on the concerns of the people of Iraq, it will provide a powerful incentive for nations to participate.
It is well known that while some nations may see the instability in Iraq as an opportunity, there is also an even-present danger that the civil war in Iraq threatens the stability of nations throughout the region. The impending end of the occupation will provide a breakthrough for the cooperation between the US and the UN and the UN and countries of the region. The regional conference must include Iran, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
5. Prepare an international security and peacekeeping force to move in, replacing US troops who then return home. The UN has an indispensable role to play here, but cannot do it as long as the US is committed to an occupation. The UN is the only international organization with the ability to mobilize and the legitimacy to authorize troops.
The UN is the place to develop the process, to build the political consensus, to craft a political agreement, to prepare the ground for the peacekeeping mission, to implement the basis of an agreement that will end the occupation and begin the transition to international peacekeepers. This process will take at least three months from the time the US announces the intention to end the occupation.
The US will necessarily have to fund a peacekeeping mission, which, by definition will not require as many troops. Fifty percent of the peacekeeping troops must come from nations with large Muslim populations. The international security force, under UN direction, will remain in place until the Iraqi government is capable of handling its own security. The UN can field an international security and peacekeeping mission, but such an initiative will not take shape unless there is a peace to keep, and that will be dependent upon a political process which reaches agreement between all the Iraqi parties. Such an agreement means fewer troops will be needed.
According to UN sources, the UN the peacekeeping mission in the Congo, which is four times larger in area than Iraq, required about twenty thousand troops. Finally the UN does not mobilize quickly because they depend upon governments to supply the troops, and governments are slow. The ambition of the UN is to deploy in less than ninety days. However, without an agreement of parties the UN is not likely to approve a mission to Iraq, because countries will not give them troops.
6. Develop and fund a process of national reconciliation. The process of reconciliation must begin with a national conference, organized with the assistance of the UN and with the participation of parties who can create, participate in and affect the process of reconciliation, defined as an airing of all grievances and the creation of pathways toward open, transparent talks producing truth and resolution of grievances. The Iraqi government has indicated a desire for the process of reconciliation to take place around it, and that those who were opposed to the government should give up and join the government. Reconciliation must not be confused with capitulation, nor with realignments for the purposes of protecting power relationships.
For example, Kurds need to be assured that their own autonomy will be regarded and therefore obviate the need for the Kurds to align with religious Shia for the purposes of self-protection. The problem in Iraq is that every community is living in fear. The Shia, who are the majority fear they will not be allowed to government even though they are a majority. The Kurds are afraid they will lose the autonomy they have gained. The Sunnis think they will continue to be made to pay for the sins of Saddam.
A reconciliation process which brings people together is the only way to overcome their fears and reconcile their differences. It is essential to create a minimum of understanding and mutual confidence between the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds.
But how can a reconciliation process be constructed in Iraq when there is such mistrust: Ethnic cleansing is rampant. The police get their money from the US and their ideas from Tehran. They function as religious militia, fighting for supremacy, while the Interior Ministry collaborates. Two or three million people have been displaced. When someone loses a family member, a loved one, a friend, the first response is likely to be that there is no reconciliation.
It is also difficult to move toward reconciliation when one or several parties engaged in the conflict think they can win outright. The Shia, some of whom are out for revenge, think they can win because they have the defacto support of the US. The end of the US occupation will enhance the opportunity for the Shia to come to an accommodation with the Sunnis. They have the oil, the weapons, and support from Iran. They have little interest in reconciling with those who are seen as Baathists.
The Sunnis think they have experience, as the former army of Saddam, boasting half a million people insurgents. The Sunnis have so much more experience and motivation that as soon as the Americans leave they believe they can defeat the Shia government. Any Sunni revenge impulses can be held in check by international peacekeepers. The only sure path toward reconciliation is through the political process. All factions and all insurgents not with al Queda must be brought together in a relentless process which involves Saudis, Turks and Iranians.
7. Reconstruction and Jobs. Restart the failed reconstruction program in Iraq. Rebuild roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, and other public facilities, houses, and factories with jobs and job training going to local Iraqis.
8. Reparations. The US and Great Britain have a high moral obligation to enable a peace process by beginning a program of significant reparations to the people of Iraq for the loss of lives, physical and emotional injuries, and damage to property. There should be special programs to rescue the tens of thousands of Iraqi orphans from lives of destitution. This is essential to enable reconciliation.
9. Political Sovereignty. Put an end to suspicions that the US invasion and occupation was influenced by a desire to gain control of Iraq's oil assets by A) setting aside initiatives to privatize Iraqi oil interests or other national assets, and B) by abandoning efforts to change Iraqi national law to facilitate privatization.
Any attempt to sell Iraqi oil assets during the US occupation will be a significant stumbling block to peaceful resolution. The current Iraqi constitution gives oil proceeds to the regions and the central government gets nothing. There must be fairness in the distribution of oil resources in Iraq. An Iraqi National Oil Trust should be established to guarantee the oil assets will be used to create a fully functioning infrastructure with financial mechanisms established protect the oil wealth for the use of the people of Iraq.
10. Iraq Economy. Set forth a plan to stabilize Iraq's cost for food and energy, on par to what the prices were before the US invasion and occupation. This would block efforts underway to raise the price of food and energy at a time when most Iraqis do not have the means to meet their own needs.
11. Economic Sovereignty. Work with the world community to restore Iraq's fiscal integrity without structural readjustment measures of the IMF or the World Bank.
12. International Truth and Reconciliation. Establish a policy of truth and reconciliation between the people of the United States and the people of Iraq. In 2002, I led the effort in the House of Representatives challenging the Bush Administration's plans to go to war in Iraq. I organized 125 Democrats to vote against the Iraq war resolution. The analysis I offered at that time stands out in bold relief for its foresight when compared to the assessments of many who today aspire to national leadership. Just as the caution I urged four years ago was well-placed, so the plan I am presenting today is workable, and it responds to the will of the American people, expressed this past November. This is a moment for clarity and foresight. This is a moment to take a new direction in Iraq. One with honor and dignity. One which protects our troops and rescues Iraqi civilians. One which repairs our relationship with Iraqis and with the world.
Thank you,
Dennis J Kucinich
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Post by michelle on Jan 17, 2007 15:27:48 GMT 4
Kucinich: Bush setting stage for wider warThu, 2007-01-11 04:24 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, January 10, 2007 WASHINGTON, D.C - Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement tonight in response to President Bush's nationally televised address to the American people. "President Bush appears to be setting the stage for a wider war in the region. He has blamed Iran for attacks on America. The President is vowing to disrupt Iran. He is going to add an aircraft carrier to the shores off the coast of Iran. He has promised to give Patriot missiles to 'our friends and allies.' Isn't one war enough for this President? It is time the media and the Congress began to pay attention to this President when he talks aggressively about Iran and Syria. "It is imperative that Congress step up to its constitutional responsibility to restrain this abuse of executive authority by notifying the President that we will no longer agree to fund the war in Iraq. The supplemental budget request of up to $100 billion would enable the president not only to continue the war against Iraq through the end of his term. It would give him the resources to attack Iran, in the name of defending Iraq and the region." "In Iraq, his new plan is a plan for more door-to-door fighting, more civil war, more civilian casualties, more troop deaths, more wasted money, more destabilization in the region and more separation from the world community. The President wants to send more troops to Baghdad, where they will work to quell a civil war. Only a small portion - less than 20 percent - of the new effort will be spent in al Anbar, to fight al-Qaeda. Does anyone in this Administration have any sense left at all? They are sending more US troops into the middle of a civil war! "Congress needs to take a stand against the President and take the necessary steps to bring our troops home. We need to begin talks with Iran and Syria -- and not blame them for our misguided war in Iraq. Diplomacy is the only way to avoid a widening war. If we follow the President's path of war, we will get . . . more war." On Monday, Kucinich announced a 12-point plan (www.kucinich.us) to withdraw troops from Iraq, establish an international security and peacekeeping force under the auspices of the United Nations, and take steps to begin the political reconciliation process, shore up Iraq’s economy, re-start reconstruction efforts, and institute reparations for Iraqis. Source: kucinich.us/node/1839
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Post by michelle on Jan 19, 2007 16:15:00 GMT 4
Dennis Kucinich, Chair of Subcommittee with Broadest Oversight Authority in Federal Government 1/19/07
Great news!
Dear Friends,
This week Rep. Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Committee on Government Oversight of the United States House of Representatives, with the approval of members of the full committee, created a new subcommittee; one with the broadest oversight authority of any subcommittee in the federal government, with jurisdiction over all Domestic Policy in the United States.
With the support of all 23 democrats on the committee, I have been selected as the Chairman.
This year marks my 40th year of involvement in civic life. I have served as a member of the Cleveland City Council, as Clerk of the Cleveland Municipal Courts and as Mayor of the City of Cleveland. I have been an Ohio State Senator and am now in my 6th term as a Member of the United States Congress. Having served at local, state and federal levels, in legislative, executive and 'quasi' judicial branches I have one of the broadest backgrounds of anyone in government today.
I intend to put my lifetime of experience to work as the Chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of Government Oversight.
I welcome your suggestions and ideas as to how we can make our government truly become a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Thank you,
Dennis J Kucinich
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This subcommittee has jurisdiction over the following departments of the federal government:
Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Education Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Interior Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of Transportation Department of the Treasury Department of Veterans Affairs
It also has jurisdiction over the: Broadcasting Board of Governors Commodity Futures Trading Commission Consumer Product Safety Commission Corporation for National and Community Service Environmental Protection Agency Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Farm Credit Administration Federal Communications Commission Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation Federal Election Commission Federal Housing Finance Board Federal Labor Relations Authority Federal Maritime Commission Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission Federal Reserve System Federal Retirement and Thrift Investment Board Federal Trade Commission General Services Administration Inter-American Foundation National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Capital Planning Commission National Credit Union Administration National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities Institute of Museum and Library Services National Labor Relations Board National Mediation Board National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK) National Science Foundation National Transportation Safety Board Nuclear Regulatory Commission Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission Office of Government Ethics Office of National Drug Control Policy Office of Special Counsel Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation Railroad Retirement Board Securities and Exchange Commission Small Business Administration Social Security Administration Tennessee Valley Authority United States Commission on Civil Rights
Plus, over 50 Boards, Commissions and Committees, including: Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States Endangered Species Committee Federal Financing Bank Marine Mammal Commission Migratory Bird Conservation Commission National Indian Gaming Commission National Park Commission United States Holocaust Memorial Museum United States Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
The subcommittee also has jurisdiction over the following quasi official agencies: Legal Services Corporation Smithsonian Institution …and more…
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Post by evelyn on Jan 20, 2007 19:16:46 GMT 4
It is almost inconceivable that a good man (read also: woman) could jump all the establishment hurdles necessary to win the Presidency. However, hope lives eternal! Another spectacular candidate: www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/120107ronpaul.htm 'Ron Paul: Next President Of The USA?': While Democrats soft-peddle and cozy up to Bush, creating phony arguments about the level of troop presence in Iraq and ignoring the majority will of the country to bring the troops home immediately, Ron Paul's opposition to unnecessary wars of intervention has remained steadfast throughout his entire political career.
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Post by evelyn on Jan 20, 2007 20:07:48 GMT 4
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Post by michelle on Jan 21, 2007 1:13:35 GMT 4
Thank you for the heads up, evelyn. This is news to me and I really don't know what's going on. I wouldn't give Hillary Clinton an inch of my trust. Give me some time to look into this; I was really hoping to take the rest of the weekend off. In the meantime, please let us know if you find out any more. Bests, Michelle PS: I did post news of Ron Paul, elsewhere here....he too is one that I admire and would look forward, even excited, if the two ran against each other....A real choice for once in this country...Thanks again.
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Post by evelyn on Jan 21, 2007 4:00:48 GMT 4
Michelle, I certainly support your negative position vis a vis Hillary Clinton (totally bought and paid for by the Zionists).
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Post by DT1 on Jan 21, 2007 11:15:31 GMT 4
Kucinich...I haven't done my homework yet- The worst nightmare of the GFB admin is getting my vote. www.rense.com/general75/nextp.htmFor my part,I have no quarrel with the Jewish People. The Z government is attempting to take over the world,against the will of the people. And the results could be catastrophic... Somehow,the most fearsome military in human history has been tucked into the PTB's pocket. Who gets caught in the crossfire? The lower class people.The voiceless,the powerless.The downtrodden. In every nation on Earth. Don't care who is to blame. There is no time.209.157.64.201/focus/f-bloggers/1607403/postsIt is up to us to untangle the problem. I am an American of German descent,and I see this clearly. There is no war but class war. Be wise to this subtle nuance... Please understand,Dear Reader, the difference between a Jewish person and a Zionist. We are all in this together.
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Post by michelle on Jan 21, 2007 17:08:56 GMT 4
Sun. Morning 8:00am 1/21/07
Evelyn and All:
I checked at the Kucinich site and I did find the comment rense.com picked up, but that's all; nothing from Dennis or anyone else: Will someone please explain this to me?Submitted by PissedoffAmerican on Sat, 2007-01-20 12:56. Can anyone tell me if, when, and where Dennis made this comment, because I can't find anything about it when I do a search.There was also this post from a blogger on Hillary Clinton:Well here comes the "Billary Show"Submitted by Freedomfinder on Sat, 2007-01-20 17:24. Well Hillary says she's in but how long can America stand her triangulations not to mention stonewalling of the issues that really matter?She purposely derailed "Socialized Medicine"because Bill had the drug company cabal in his back pocket,she's a member of AIPAC et al! We must stop this excuse of a women,she can be "swiftboated" on nurmerous accounts.The only reason New Yorkers vote for her is they love "victims"(like she in one)she knew before she dated Bill that he was a player it's time she stop calling herself a feminist and call her as she is a carpetbagger!!! It's time we had fresh IDEAS not stale old retortical ad nauseam,rehashing of the same. I believe that Elizabeth Kucinich could speak volumes on foreign policy issues! Thanks for the forum from which to speak! Source: kucinich.us/node/2147A Couple of other things:NEW POLLS Vote for Dennis KucinichSubmitted by Elizabeth Kucinich on Mon, 2007-01-15 05:17. Campaign Issues Please go to the 12 URLs below and VOTE. www.democracyforamerica.com/presidentialsurvey nzdems.blogspot.com/ MSNBC : The Contenders--Where's Dennis Kucinich?Submitted by Elizabeth Kucinich on Sun, 2007-01-14 18:33. Media Reform Look at this list of presidential candidates: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12304248 who's missing? Tell MSNBC that you know Kucinich is running. Make Dennis' and your voices heard. Please be persuasive and reasoned but not hostile. And here's a snip from an interesting article:Can You be a Real Anti-War Politician in a Pro-War Party? Dennis Kucinich's Strange MissionBy KEVIN ZEESE December 15, 2006 "I must admit to being still struck by Dennis' eloquence when he is permitted his moments on television, and I too gave an incredible amount of time and energy last time around. But I know many of us are convinced there is no room for progressive thought inside the Democratic Party. The 'relief valve' Tony speaks of, sometimes called the 'border collie' role by others, is dead on. I respect Dennis and don't regret one moment or dollar I spent. But I think it may be a waste of time for him to run again as a Democrat. The left will back him less than last time, given four more years of proof that Democrats don't share any of our priorities; the 'realists' and electability freaks are emboldened by the midterm results, and I expect even more bullying this time around." For more: www.counterpunch.org/zeese12152006.htmlMaybe the Dems gave Dennis unanimous backing as Chairman to keep him busy because his running for President scares the heck out of them!?:This week Rep. Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Committee on Government Oversight of the United States House of Representatives, with the approval of members of the full committee, created a new subcommittee; one with the broadest oversight authority of any subcommittee in the federal government, with jurisdiction over all Domestic Policy in the United States. With the support of all 23 democrats on the committee, I have been selected as the Chairman. I'll check on this frequently, but please do let us know more if possible....Michelle
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Post by evelyn on Jan 22, 2007 17:08:15 GMT 4
www.rense.com/general75/deff.htmIn Defense Of Dennis Kucinich And Ron Paul As Presidential Aspirants: I don't know where Dick got the info that Kucinich said he would support Hillary if she got the Democratic nomination for president, but let's assume for the moment that Kucinich said exactly what Eastman claims he said. . . .
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