Has the "flying saucer" thing neutered Kucinich?

Even if you have seen a UFO, don't you think it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut about it if you're a politician seeking office?

out in a book and he told the truth...of course he could have equivocated like the rest of the candidates?

I would love nothing more than to see Cheney go down, but I wish someone who hadn't claimed to see a UFO was behind the effort. I mean, really.

MKJ

on edit, welcome to DU, I'm sure we can look forward to more adverbs from you which denigrate our candidates. :hi:

He said he saw something he could not identify. I never heard him or anyone else besides you say he saw a "flying saucer"

:shrug:

I like the man personally. Anyone with the sack to go on Colbert Report gets points in my book, but his politics are to extreme for just about everyone outside of DU. When you don't have to worry about winning, you can say whatever the heck you want.

Most Americans want single-payer health care, the want rid of Cheney, they want NAFTA repealed and they want good-paying jobs to stay in the United States.

That's what Dennis stands for, which is hardly outside of the extreme.

The only people who think it's extreme are the Republicans and the corporate media.

drives off a large chunk of his own party.

He's pretty much in line with what most Americans want on most all of the other issues, save gun control and the Department of Peace.

Most people want out of Iraq, are pro-choice, want to protect social security and want to sustain the Middle Class and American workers.

I don't really have a candidate, but, since it looks as though Clark, Gore and Feingold aren't going to run, I'll probably vote for Kooch since he's closest in line with my belief systems. And, you know something, if people would stop thinking he can't get elected because he's short or because the media wants to make him into a kook, he'd probably win the primary based on 95 percent of his stances on important issues.

are often very different things. Lots of Americans want health care for all. Not all Americans are in agreement on the method for achieving this. Do you think there are any candidates who are going to come out and say they are NOT for sustaining the middle class? That's one of those vague issues that both sides say they're going to do but are vague on what their plan is. I agree with Kucinich on quite a few things as well...but I want to know how he plans to achieve them. Because if that plan is a substantial tax hike, I don't think he's going to find much popular support for it. People support lots of things until that thing reaches for their bank account.

Hmmmm?

I missed that bill in the spring.

Yowza.

That's pretty extreme in my opinion, especially when one considers two Polls on DU alone. One showing that almost 50% of DUers OWN a handgun, and another showing that about 80% of DU'ers support the right of individuals to own handguns.

Till now, anyway.

It is extreme for this country.

I'm all for gun rights, but I'd be happy with just rifles & shotguns & such. So that said, it doesn't bother me too much.

:shrug:

To shoot each other....

Were you seriously asking?

I don't see how your question makes any sense in the context of this conversation. :shrug:

WOW didn't know that... never mind that every poll identifiies THAT as a priority of the American people

I guess the rabble are extreme

Thanks for the update

I mean cripe. They even cropped him out of the photo sessions. He does not exist on the medias radar except as the punchline for their jokes.

he handled it well. And of course, he's hardly a leading candidate.

everything and that there are no mysteries left on Earth and beyond Earth.

UFO = Unidentified Flying Object

It may be that a UFO can be identified, but not by the person who saw it. Ergo, it is a UFO to the witness.

And it might be that a UFO is a UFO because science has not yet be able to make a conclusive identification of the object.

Just under three hundred seventy-four years ago, Galileo was ordered to stand trial for heresy for promoting the theory of heliocentrism... I'm sure that those who persecuted and prosecuted Galileo believed firmly that the Sun did rotate around the Earth and not the other way around.

and NO, when Fat Timmeh asked him about it, he handled it in an appropriate manner. If he would have lied and said "no, I didn't say I saw one", they would have been all over him calling him a LIAR.

Reagan saw a "UFO". Carter saw a "UFO". Pilots and Astronauts have reported seeing "UFOs"

A better idea would be for *you* to keep your mouth shut about "flying saucers" and quit putting words in peoples mouths. How's that sound? Deal?

and they don't get called whackos. Well, by me they do, but I'm not "in the media"

What is it with aliens and genitalia?

:scared:

Now, he might not even finish in the top three in Iowa or NH.

no.

to you, then you were already not a Kucinich supporter.

There was no more neutering of Kucinich left to be done, and there hasn't been for a long time.

As if that was anyone's business.

he's having trouble getting it otherwise.

it's not something to be worried about. As Richard Belzar said.."more people have reported seeing UFOs than WMD".

Right now Dennis is working on his House Resolution #333.

Unidentified lights in the sky does not a flying saucer make. Too funny that you think it would be better for him to 'shut his mouth' about it. Please go out and listen to Kucinich so that you can get a feel for the type of person, not politician that he is. You will understand that there are many good and exciting things that you could share about Dennis Kucinich. Peace, KIm

That's as appalling to me as Kucinich's claim is to those who don't understand what "UFO" means.

Many very 'credible' people have also reported UFOs.

This is nonsense. RW BS... but hey, nice to see it here. No shortage of RW BS around here, oh no.

Did that look like a "neutered" man to you? Would you care to compare him to the rest of the Democratic congresspersons in standing up for our Constitution, which is itself being "neutered" by our so-called Commander-in-Chief?

Go on. I dare you to compare him to the other Democrats in Congress at this moment. Neutered?? Unbelievable.

if it's over Shirley Maclaine's house, or Tom Cruise's house, keep your mouth shut.

or Yale then I'll give them more serious thought. Until then it makes Dennis look interesting but not in a good way. Go Joe Biden!!!

The public has grown weary of the smear campaigns, "Dean scream, Kerry swiftboating, etc."

GOP is going to have to come up with a new trick.

Not at all. The Truth is Out There. :kick:

I don't think he ever had a chance of being elected in the first place;he's just not a good enough politician to get elected(not to mention he's an extremist to half the country).

The UFO thing only made that more apparent in my opinion.

You're just stirring a hornets nest as everyone already knows he is the sentimental favorite here on DU.

For the general public, he has never been much more than an asterisk anyway.

Not a flying saucer, not aliens, not anything like that....

He still possesses the same niche following as before.

:scared:

The man I saw yesterday was anything but neutered, and if saying something people might think was stupid prevented politicians from getting elected, we'd have had no politicians.

even less visible than Dennis' UFO.

Beware

...it was his comment about banning handguns that did him in. That may sell in Cleveland but it's the kiss of death in my neck of the woods.

He is the one who tells the Truth

We just did a poll here on DU about people believing in UFO's and it showed 2 Duers out one believe UFO existence and some have any seen them

my friend that is the MAJORITY

so ya got to be kidding me

just because we have some who don't
doesn't make the majority negligible