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[peaceandjustice]

Plenty of other candidates are tackling workers rights, expanding health care and education. The department of Peace is what sets Kucinich's campaign apart from Gephardt's, Dean's and Kerry's. You say nothing to discount my contention that the Dept. of Peace would use up the resources needed to implement expanded health care and other more important goals or the pragmatic reality that a Dept. of Peace is only as noble as the administration that presides over it for any given term.

It is a hairsplitting difference between raping the constitution to permit congress to limit free speech and actually limiting free speech. While we don't know if he would as a congressman vote for prohibiting flag-burning if the amendment passes, we don't know if he wouldn't either. And I don't think we need to choose between a pro-Patriot Act/anti-flag-burning amendment candidate and an anti-patriot act/pro-flag burning amendment candidate, I think we can insist on someone who opposes both.

How were Carter and Clinton untested with rural voters? both were elected statewide in states with large rural populations. And while State Senate may be a state office, it is not a statewide office in the sense that voters across all of Ohio had a chance to vote for or against Kucinich.

Kucinich has done some good things. His record on energy policy and on standing up to the electric monopolists is strong. His involvement with the Progressive Caucus is admirable.