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http://www.kucinich.us/culturecorner.htm10 Key Issues
http://kucinich.us/issues/issue_10key.htmhttp://soli.inav.net/~njohnson/kucinich/Don't be fooled by the corrupting, compromising, poll-driven, big money candidates' and media attempts to marginalize you by trivializing one of America's most substantial presidential candidates since Franklin Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
Can he win? To borrow from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Let me count the ways."
Dennis Kucinich came out of a working class Cleveland neighborhood to run for City Council at age 21, and was elected at 23. His political career has been built on a series of upsets over "unbeatable" Republicans. As a result, he has served as a big city mayor, Ohio State Senator and U.S. Congressman. He has moved that congressional district from 34 percent Democratic, to 49 percent the first time he won, to 65 percent, and now 74 percent.
His colleagues in the House have demonstrated their respect for his abilities by electing him chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus -- the largest caucus in the House. He has been honored for his record of successful participation in global issues through a number of international organizations. In short, this is someone with decades of serious and successful political and governmental experience at all levels.
Moreover, he has a demonstrated ability to work with those of all political persuasions; he's a progressive who can work with -- without capitulating to -- business. He manages to hold to his idealism while functioning as one of the nation's most practical and successful progressives.
His platform stands in stark contrast to the Bush Administration's programs -- in contrast to those candidates who seem not to distance themselves too far from a popular president and his wars.
But perhaps his greatest winning quality is that he comes across as the kind of genuine human being Americans ache to find in their candidates. This is not just another slick, poll-driven, media make-over, actor. The kind of response he gets from those who've heard him is something the likes of which I haven't witnessed since Robert Kennedy.
Kucinich has been drawing very large, enthusiastic crowds in Iowa and around America because he speaks with a compassion and sincerity listeners find unambiguous and genuine. He talks about the country's real needs and ideals in a language that is at once both street savy and simple while reflective of a well-informed and thoughtful, educated eloquence, courage and wit.
Can he win? As Dennis Patrick Welch and I analyze it, Kucinich just may be the only Democrat who can.
-- Nicholas Johnson, Iowa City, Iowa
Power to the People by Dennis Kucinich
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16625http://www.kucinich.us/A Letter from Studs Terkel:
When I think of Dennis Kucinich, I think immediately of what our country is all about. Not only does he have the guts to speak out when others are silent, when others compromise their principles -- he does it in a manner that sets all hearts on fire. He speaks hope for those who have lost hope.
I have followed his career in public life ever since he was "the Boy Mayor of Cleveland". He, in saving municipal ownership of power from a corporate take-over, was a young Horatio at the bridge. It cost him his job, but he saved what is known as MUNY Light. Today, he is honored by the city, when once he was declared 'dead meat'. He is very much alive and speaking with his natural eloquence -- the language of all working men and women, of all small farmers, of all who believe in a better life and a safer world, for their children and others' children.
He's my man!
Studs Terkel
Chicago, Illinois
Statement from Granny D Granny D (Doris Haddock) is the unstoppable social change activist, now in her 90s, from the first primary state of New Hampshire. At age 89, she wore out four sets of shoes and was hospitalized in Arizona for dehydration and pneumonia, but she would not be deterred as she marched for campaign reform from California to her triumphant arrival in Washington D.C. 14 months later. Now, she is on the march for Dennis.
"I am proud to endorse Dennis Kucinich for President.
When I walked 3,200 miles across the United States for campaign reform and inquired of people why they were not voting, they said: 'Find us someone who understands us, who cares about us.' I'm talking about people living in trailers, people living in small towns with boarded-up windows on Main Street, with drugstores, grocery stores, hardware stores
all eaten up by Wal-Mart, Costco, CVS Drugs, Home Depot, and other monsters several miles beyond the town. People coming out of farmhouses in Iowa, squeezed out of their livelihood by stinking agri-hog farms, people coming out of tobacco fields, cotton fields, wheat fields, people living in cities who have been out of work for over a year, people whose well-paid jobs have been shipped overseas, people desperate for relief from the oppressions of our corporatized and disempowered lives.
I promised to look for someone who would understand them, that had a vision of the future for them, that believed in Peace, Love, Justice. Well, here he is: Dennis Kucinich.
I believe he is the candidate who can bring new voters and disgruntled voters into the political process.
To those people I met on my walk across America: 'Now keep your promise to me and come out and vote for him! Hugs.'"