Kucinich: Bulletproof Monk

[n2doc]

This is Part 5 of the series “I No Longer Fear The Kucinich Revolution.”
http://www.towncalleddobson.com/?p=860

This strip isn’t really about the mafia assassin that was sent to murder Kucinich, Grassy Knoll style during the Columbus Day Parade while he was Mayor of Cleveland. This strip is about the shield that grows around a person when they lead a life of honest work and wholesome living. I am not claiming Kucinich is perfect - but he does his job, and he does his job well.

You have never seen Kucinich giving Masonic-level secret handshakes under the bathroom stall. You will never hear Kucinich say, “I spread my legs when I pull my pants down.” He will never say it to a vice cop nor will he say it to a lobbyist. Kucinich has put everything on the line, and I do mean everything, for We the People. He did is as Mayor when he protected the assets of the people of Cleveland and he does it every day with his seat in Congress.

If we, as progressives, keep voting for the person we think we can win, we are abject and total failures as Citizens. We are betraying everything Paine, Jefferson and Henry stood for - honesty, equality and freedom. Those three Americans had a vision for America that has yet to be fully realized. During the Bush Administration, we have taken many, many steps backwards from this vision. Under previous administrations, we took small, baby-steps forward. Lincoln did, however, suffer through a gusher of forward movements but the rest of American History is littered with small steps forward, until now.

The other candidates in the field I believe will be better than Bush, way better, but I don’t see anything in their policy speeches, voting records or position papers that illustrate a path to move us back to where we should be in 2009 after Clinton/Gore dropped us off in 2001. Most of the candidates only have plans on repairing barely half of the damage Bush has done… with the exception of Kucinich. His record, plans and policies all reflect quantum leaps in government, bringing us to a position of being able to manufacture goods in this nation again. Allowing us to feed our families, educate our kids and stay healthy.

Baby step measures - do you really think they will do any good? Do you think they will even bring us back to where we were in 1992? Bush must own a time machine because he has wound back the hands of time to place this nation in the deep past. This nation is totally unrecognizable to me - the United States is at the bottom of the list in damn near anything. We had a better literacy rating in 1877 when Laura Ingalls Wilder was living in a Little House On The Prairie. Hell, my grandmother took Latin in 5th grade as a requirement back in the early 1900’s and that was PUBLIC SCHOOL IN WEST VIRGINIA! And Obama’s baby-steps are supposed to be some foundational culture shift for the American future? I don’t think so. He got the beat down when he just mentioned talking with rogue states might be a good idea - then he backtracked like Louis and Clark.

Oh yeah, that must be that spine we hear so much about.

I’ll take Ultra-K any day.

[slipslidingaway]

1. K&R A bold new direction is needed, not baby steps. n/t

[slipslidingaway]

2. Recent statements by Kucinich...

A couple more R's would not hurt :blush:

Kucinich: growing uninsured population reflects failure of political leaders

“The fault lies at the doorstep of the White House, the floor of the U.S. Congress, and with the leadership of both political parties,” Kucinich said.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1752082&mesg_id=1752082


Latest report from IAEA on Iran

“If Iran is cooperating, it’s time for the President and others to stop ratcheting up the rhetoric regarding weapons, sanctions, and ‘all options are on the table’ so that we don’t get tricked into another war,” Kucinich said. “One war built on lies and deceptions – Iraq – is already one war too many.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1752111&mesg_id=1752111

[superkia]

3. Most would agree that the odds are very high that a Dem. will be president

So we really have no chance to throw away a vote unless you don't vote on the issues and you just throw away your vote to the popular media driven candidates. If you want YOUR vote to count, vote for who you believe in, the one that will stand up and fight for your freedoms and end this money making death machine. Right now there is only one candidate standing up and speaking the truth in the face of the corrupt government. To me that makes them presidential, not just saying what people want to hear to win so you can continue the same shit!

[slipslidingaway]

4. Agree that right now there is only one candidate speaking

the truth about the corruption in both parties and I will vote accordingly.

[LWolf]

8. This is the BEST post I've seen on DU

in a good while. Thank you.

There will never be a better time to vote the issues. If perennial fear keeps people voting for the media pre-chosen "winners," we will never move those issues forward.


:kicked: and recommended.

[slipslidingaway]

11. The party had my default vote for 30 years...

no more. Thanks

Scott Ritter: Reporting from Baghdad

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x306308

"The real big three she should be addressing are “Why do Americans keep dying?” “Who is killing them?” and “Why?”

[Nederland]

5. He does his job well?

Really? It seems to me that the job of a leader should be to lead. Given his dismal poll numbers, it seems that nobody wants to follow him...

[slipslidingaway]

6. People are slow, they are following him now with regard to Iraq

and now Edwards is saying many of the same things Dennis has been saying about terrorism.

Quite a change from the Edwards speech when he talked about taking decisive action to eliminate the threat from Saddam and the need to win the war on terrorism, oh that was before the vote on the IWR.

People are following, just years and many lives later :(

And the press marginalizes him at every turn. He might have higher poll numbers if had the $$ to get his message out.

[eleny]

10. What does he propose that you are against?

[Nederland]

13. Nothing

I just think he sucks as a leader. Being President takes more than just being right on the issues--you also have to be able to lead. Kucinich can't, so he'd make a lousy President.

[lynnertic]

12. He's not getting press, which is why people don't know about him.

the more they know the more they agree.

Americans who expect to be spoon-fed by FOX and broadcast news what they need to know in order to make a rational decision about who to vote for, hurt our country.

So as we work around the MSM, which is trying to keep Kucinich OUT of power by utterly ignoring the man, as we try to get the word out, at least do your duty as a citizen and read, and take it seriously, or else I'll have to beleive that you're just as lazy and shortsighted as the freepers.

[Nederland]

14. He doesn't get press...

...because he doesn't get anything done. Maybe if he got some legislation passed or actually accomplished something he would get some press, but until then he is rightfully ignored by the press.

[lynnertic]

15. So saving Cleveland Public Power from private interests is nothing?

How about his hearings on hot fuel this past year?

And what can you give me as an example of a lone representative getting legislation passed?

[Nederland]

16. Saving Cleveland Public Power was almost 30 years ago

You merely prove my point...

[lynnertic]

17. It's certainly a lot more than nothing.

Dude was the youngest mayor in the nation at the time.

And you must not have known about the hot fuel hearings. Which, I think, proves MY point, which at the moment is that you're not offering anything to support your assertions.

[goodhue]

7. great post!

[2Design]

9. donated to him yesterday through du -

he really does stand for most of what I want