Essex girl on the road to the White House [View All]

Source: Independent UK

She's an idealistic young Englishwoman. He's an American politician more than twice her age, making his second run for the presidency and his third run at marital bliss. She's six feet tall with long, flowing, red hair. He's short, with looks unprepossessing enough to earn him comparisons to one of the hobbits from The Lord of the Rings.

Nothing, in other words, about the union of Elizabeth Harper, now Kucinich, and her husband Dennis Kucinich fits the usual clichéd categories of a Mills and Boon romance. Except there it is. The seasoned, ultra-liberal congressman from Cleveland, Ohio, and the fresh-faced VSO veteran fell in love almost instantly when they met a little over two years ago, and they have been inseparable ever since.

Mr Kucinich's die-hard – but, unfortunately for him, not very numerous – band of supporters would love to think that Elizabeth's presence on the campaign trail will give him just the shot in the arm he needs to garner support for his opposition to the Iraq war, his calls for gun control and an end to the death penalty, his demands for the impeachment of the Vice President, Dick Cheney, and his dream of replacing the Pentagon with a Department of Peace.



Read more: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3174387.ece

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So this is what Britain thinks?