Kucinich: The Best Positions by far. So why are they trying to bar him?

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Kucinich: The Best Positions by far. So why are they trying to bar him?
Posted January 15, 2008 | 05:16 PM (EST)


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Dennis Kucinich is the only Democrat running for President who has voted against authorizing the war in Iraq and against funding its continuation and who wants to remove all the troops immediately.

Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate for President with a plan for a Universal, Single-Payer, Not-for-Profit health care system. Health care in the US is too expensive and leaves 46 million Americans without insurance and millions more under-insured, causing thousands to die needlessly.

Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate who is not beholden to the corporate interests, who has taken no monies from corporate lobbyists.

Kucinich is the only candidate who voted against the Patriot Act, and wants to restore basic constitutional rights.

Kucinich is the only candidate who supports gay marriage.

This isn't far left stuff. They are simply moderate Democratic positions. This is what the Democratic Party is all about. So why won't the Democrats vote like Democrats?

The reason is that they fear that if they support Democratic positions, they will give the election to the Republicans. They want to settle for the "good" rather than the "perfect."

What is outrageous is that Kucinich is being marginalized and excluded from the debates and media attention .... right at the beginning.

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when the best positions and policies are the very reasons a candidate is excluded, ridiculed and harnessed to the "unelectable" millstone, you know we are screwed.

It's pretty easy to see why they are ignoring and barring Kucinich - aside from his politics - he's not really running a campaign!

Sheesh...whatd'ya need another one or two candidates for?
Take yer choice...Hil or Barak.

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but a :grr:about this whole stupid debate! I am just so :grr:

but I always :loveya: you. ;)
DR

I expect it from Clinton, but Obama and especially Edwards are disappointing me.

He is not the 'progressive' candidate that some think.

of what DK always faces. It's not very democratic, is it?

I think that this primary has made it clear: it's not "electablility." It's not poll numbers. It's not how much money a candidate raises. A candidate that bucks the status quo is going to be undercut at every turn.

When CNN was trying to manipulate all of us into thinking they were providing us a show that WE somehow controlled in any way!

--than Kucinich. They didn't change their minds until Richardson dropped out.

Haven't you noticed the venom coming from DLC supporters here?

corporations that believe in corporate controlled fascist government.

if they allowed him to speak freely he might win.

want either of them to be the nominee or have a voice.

Over the past nine months, DK has participated in around 16 debates, including a couple in NH and a couple in Iowa. Yet, both in those states and nationally, he continues to barely register. Is there any evidence that he has ever gotten a "bump" from his participation in any of the debates in either the national polls or in the polls for the state in which the debate was held?

from their minds because the media decided that his issues shouldn't be heard, it could cause Americans to wake up to the shit thats taking place in the elites country.

Corpworld cannot afford for DK's message to get out to AVG JOE, because they would vote for him!

He and Edwards are candidates they must silence. They have been quite successful in silencing DK. They are shutting JE out of reporting every chance they get. It's all about the Corpwhores. They are the only ones who will get REAL press.

It is very telling how fearful Corpworld is of DK by the lengths MSNBC is going to to eliminate him from a debate that they already invited him to attend. A debate that he qualified for based on MSNBC's own criteria!

Why go to such lengths to exclude him? What's the big deal? Why would they enlist the amount of $, time, legal resources & risk bad press to exclude him? If you think about it, there is no other reason.

OUR COUNTRY OFFICIALLY SUX!!!!!:mad:

They can't even come close. The only way to beat him is to keep him marginalized.

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It's an epidemic....they become marginalized and ignored...by design...

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We need to replace Congress, with Kucinich supporters and Constitution defenders.
Imagine a Congress full of people who took their oath of office seriously, who valued themselves as a public servant.

a pariah...

Maybe MSNBC isn't the only one who doesn't consider him to be a serious candidate.

to the corporate powers that be.