Reply #16: He not only said, "NO" to the gas tax, [View All]

he also said something Democrats don't want to hear. Here's a transcript of the question and answer, the bolding mine:

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Would you be in favor of a phase-in $3.00 a gallon gasoline tax?

KUCINICH: No. And he said something else that didn't receive
much notice. He said that the Iraq war was about oil, something that
I said on "Meet the Press," Tim, on February 23rd, 2003.

I think that we need to make sure that the next president was
right about Iraq, was right about the Patriot Act.

You can have a president like that, who was right about Iraq, who
voted against it from the beginning and against the funding. You can
have a president against -- who was for a single-payer, not-for-profit
health care system, one who will stop the Patriot Act...


RUSSERT: Time.

KUCINICH: ... or you can have a president who's tall.

http://ipol-2008.blogspot.com/2007/09/transcript-of-dartmouth-debate.html

There are many Democrats who don't want a president who's right; they want Washington to be a choreographed theater that will put them in the "VIP" box in the audience, without looking at what goes on behind the curtain.