Kucinich interviewed by RollingStone

[ErasureAcer]

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=2016

great article. Love Dennis' response to the last question.

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Reporter: Why are you so confident that you can win?

DK: I have experience in looking at situations that everyone says are impossible, and reaching in and finding that other possibility of drawing it forth. You know, in quantum physics there are some who write about what's called the "implicant order." It's something that's just, you know, beyond your vision, but it's there. And what I try to do is draw forth that order that is there. And when that happens, people say, "Oh, that's a miracle." No, it was always there -- it was just waiting to be called forth. And so I think I can do that with this nation.

[helleborient]

1. Congrats Dennis!

Big corporate media (Rolling Stone has a circulation in excess of 1,250,000) isn't ignoring you!

[MuseRider]

2. I really like this article.

Thanks for posting. I read it once before but it just sounds better today. If anyone can pull this country back from the brink of disaster he can.

[xJlM]

3. That was great!

And yeah, the last quote was one of the best. I'm really looking forward to seeing what DK can do for this country. Maybe I'm too old for such foolish hopes, since I know which way this country has been moving for the last thirty years, but I can't help but being optimistic.

[redqueen]

4. Thanks for sharing this.

I saw it before but appreciate seeing it again, and love the quote you chose to include in your post. :D

Three things I love about Dennis Kucinich - his vision, optimism, and integrity. :)

[Mairead]

5. I love this part

I wonder, though: Look what a utility company in Ohio did when you stood up to it -- they destroyed your mayoralty. What's going to happen when huge, politically connected companies such as Halliburton and Bechtel decide they don't want to lose these billion-dollar contracts handed to them by the Bush administration?

The power of a mayor is nothing compared to the executive power of the president. Let's just say that I would use the full executive power of the presidency to protect the interests of the American people. And that I would expect to have a very cooperative relationship with American businesses. Matter of fact, I think my presidency would be good for them, because I would help restore a sense of ethics in the economy. Now, those businesses that would try to use their influence to try to capsize a government might find that they'd be dealing with someone who has broader experience in government than they might imagine.

ooOOOooooo :evilgrin:

[goodhue]

6. great article

another Q & A from rollng stone

Your candidacy seems to be built on the idea that the people are looking for another New Deal-type program. But the New Deal didn't happen until the country was mired in a depression. Do you think things have really gotten that bad now?

When you consider that most Americans are maxed out on their credit cards, when you consider that most Americans are no longer guaranteed employment security, when you consider how many pension funds are going belly up, when you look at the corruption on Wall Street and the failure of the SEC to police Wall Street, when you consider that major corporations are cheating their stockholders -- last year 250 corporations restated their earnings, lied about their earnings . . . we have a system that's being run in a way that closely resembles a criminal enterprise.

There's a great gap in our society -- and it's widening. You see what's happening in our corporations, where executives are paid hundreds of times what the workers are paid. There should be a limit on executive compensation, on the multiples between the lowest-paid and highest-paid. The maldistribution of wealth in this society, the intensification of it, is a threat to our democracy. As wealth accelerates to the top, democracy is led to the scaffold.

[Desertrose]

7. oh man...Dennis is so right on......

Yeah...this was a great article.....

the word is getting out.....Dennis Kucinich is here to stay!

GO DENNIS!!!

Peace
DR

[kwolf68]

8. Awesome

I am for exec salaries that are directly tied to the workers salaries. In other words, the execs can still make their millions, but everytime they get a raise the workers get one that is proportional.

This idea would never fly, but its worth bringing up.

Dennis...Keep kickin it bro

[dpbrown]

9. Does this guy have DEPTH, or what!

I love that. The guy's having an interview with a music magazine, and he thinks up an example using quantum physics. Man, this is the guy I want negotiating with Congress and our allies, that's for sure.

Kucinich: Better Ideas, Better Candidate - it's just that simple

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota

[snoochie]

10. Can you imagine him in a debate with Bush?

No waffling, no jibber jabber. Just plain, honest, truth.

What the heck would the RNC do? An opponent that promises not small change, but a fundamental change to the way this country is run!

I'll be working my butt off to see it! :D

[dpbrown]

11. Kucinich will chew Bush up and spit him out

He's got experience beating the Republicans at their own game. That's one of his strengths.

Kucinich: Better Ideas, Better Candidate - it's just that simple

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota

[LWolf]

15. Yes, he does.

Listening to him speak always brings a grin; he's the only candidate I know who regularly quotes or refers to classic and modern literature, research, scientific theory, etc. as well as current events. You always go home thinking, "Wow! He reads, too. He thinks. He connects the dots."

A conversation with Dennis will always include something more than a soundbite.

[genius]

12. Dennis is great.

He will be the best president ever.

[Gingersnap]

13. awesome article

thanks for posting. I hadn't seen it before. I love what he says about the FDR question, and sustainable energy. Talk about vision.

[LuminousX]

14. More Exposure for Dennis

We should be seeing his poll ratings jump soon.

[goodhue]

16. still a great article

another answer

Our quest for oil darkens the heart of this nation. And it points out the urgency of sustainability, in the broadest sense of the word. Neither the economy nor the environment nor the geopolitical realities can long countenance this country's continued reliance on oil and other nonsustainable, nonrenewable forms of energy. In the early Sixties, President Kennedy offered a challenge to the American people -- a broad vision that would reflect the ingenuity of America, the creativity, the spirit of America -- and he said that the goal of America should be to put someone on the moon. That sparked a surge of interest in science, general support for education, a belief that we had a collective responsibility to our nation, to participate in a common goal. I intend to take to this country the same clarion call for sustainability -- to seek to build for America a renewable-energy portfolio of twenty percent by 2010. Which would consist of massive investment in solar, hydrogen, geothermal, biomass, wind . . . and other energy systems.

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=2016