Interesting article about Kucinich

[TechBear_Seattle]

Pardon if this was already posted, but the article came out last Wednesday while I was on vacation. It is not particularly flattering, but it is not the same dismissive article that has been bandied about for the last year, either.

Because He Was Right: The Long Campaign of Dennis Kucinich

Is America ready for its first vegan president?

Please.

Maybe its first woman president. Perhaps a black president. Possibly even a Latino president. And, as Chris Rock pointed out, we've got a retarded president right now. But a guy who faults a cheeseburger on two counts, the meat and the cheese? A vegan president? No fucking way. Don't be retarded.

And most certainly not this particular vegan, Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich. This is a candidate who announces, on national television, that he would refuse to shoot a Hellfire missile at Osama bin Laden if given the opportunity; a guy who prattles on about the interconnectedness of humanity and his plans for creating a cabinet-level Department of Peace; a man who brags about the wonderfully low blood pressure his animal-cruelty-free diet has brought him (memo to the Kucinich campaign: Americans like their leaders carnivorous and on the verge of cardiac arrest, thank you very much—see, for example, our last two presidents: Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney).

Sure, it might be unfair, a cosmic and karmic injustice even, that Kucinich, who was more right about the Iraq war than most Democrats (and, for the record, more right than one of the meat-eating authors of this vegan-bashing profile), now has less chance of being president than U.S. troops have of stumbling across those alleged Iraqi WMDs.

But that's the way we roll here in America.

The full article is available at http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=413457

[MuseRider]

1. Thanks.

It is good and bad but so far it seems mostly fair. The bad stuff is usually followed by some reasoning but I have not read it all and was pretty quick with what I did read. You are right though, it is certainly not dismissive. That is certainly an improvement over what I have seen over the years in print.

AFAIAC if Marcos says "Ugh" then I know I am on the right track continuing on with my support of Kucinich.

EDIT: Hated the ending. Oh well, most all of us will not be remembered for long and he is certainly a "regular Joe" kind of guy. He IS still right.

[redqueen]

2. A quote from Jim McDermott...

"The suffering of fools is a talent, and not everybody suffers fools gladly. He believes they ought to move more quickly because this is only going to get worse."

That's the thing... how much worse will things get, and how quickly?

Guess we'll find out.

[MuseRider]

3. It seems we are

determined to follow it through doesn't it. It will not be a good time. Shame, it could be different.