Quiet Time with Dennis Kucinich

[babylonsister]

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2007/11/quiet-time-with-dennis-kucinic.html

Quiet Time with Dennis Kucinich

By Craig Crawford | November 23, 2007 4:06 PM

DURHAM, N.H. -- Unlike the big-league presidential candidates who march into their campaign events with rock music blaring over the loudspeakers, Dennis Kucinich wanders into a room almost unnoticed, avoids the podium, waves off attempts to pin a microphone to his suit jacket and just starts talking without any flowery introduction by a local politician trying to curry favor.

With his opening remarks before taking questions, the Democratic White House hopeful and Ohio congressman further distinguishes himself from better known rivals, saying things they would not dare to say.

“We are losing our democracy to lies,” Kucinich told about 70 students at the University of New Hampshire on Wednesday. Then he launched into a 15-minute defense of the House resolution that he introduced to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.

Later, Kucinich previewed his 300-page resolution to impeach President George W. Bush – partly based on his belief that the administration plans to attack Iran in what Kucinich calls a “war crime in motion.”

Kucinich blasted his own party’s congressional leaders for ignoring his proposals. “If Democrats really stood for the Constitution, we could have impeached the vice president,” he said.

Whether or not you agree with anything Kucinich says, he is a refreshing change from the poll-tested and carefully calibrated stump speeches usually heard on the campaign trail. And better yet, throughout Kucinich’s hour-long appearance, his only musical accompaniment was the ringtone of a student’s cell phone.

[cyclezealot]

1. A problem with our system.

We ape all the propoganda and hoopla. Issues bore too many Americans, we vote for personalities; which are just prepackaged lies. I have been in the quiet space with DK, as have you. It makes one feel confident due to his glow of knowledge and determination to fight off the corrupt influences of our prefabricated ad age.

[FtWayneBlue]

2. Impeachment on the table.

What a Christmas dinner that would make for honest Americans like DK.