Kucinich Can't Get Elected 'cause He Looks Like a Doofus! Not.

dpbrown

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Mon Mar-01-04 01:02 PM
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Kucinich Can't Get Elected 'cause He Looks Like a Doofus! Not.

I don't think Kucinich looks like a doofus. I don't know what a doofus looks like. I think it's one of those subjective slights that someone uses to dismiss someone when all else fails.

I think Kucinich looks like a healthy, intelligent, kindly, wiry, careworn son of a Croat truckdriver and an Irish mother who lived in 21 places including a couple of cars before he was 17 years old, who saved Cleveland's public power utility as the youngest Mayor ever elected to head a major U.S. city. I also think Kucinich looks like the only one running for the nomination who's not running for himself, but for the change he thinks he can affect.

When I look at Kucinich or hear him speak, I see and hear someone who has a fiscally responsible plan to bring universal single-payer health care to the last industrialized holdout nation without it, while lowering the average amount that employers contribute to the system.

When I look at Kucinich or hear him speak, I see and hear someone who's taken a principled stand against the fiscally irresponsible and racist and archaic death penalty.

When I look at Kucinich or hear him speak, I see and hear someone who has a fiscally responsible plan to make the Pentagon accountable to the taxpayers, ensuring our safety by mandating that the Pentagon account for how it spends the taxpayer dollar.

When I look at Kucinich or hear him speak, I see and hear someone who doesn't eat meat, but who understands that family farmers working within their community make the best guarantees that healthy prion-free feed goes into beef cattle.

When I look at Kucinich or hear him speak, I see and hear someone who wasn't "fooled" by Bush's b.s. about "working with the UN" and who believes, as I do, that the unprovoked invasion of Iraq was ill-conceived, wasteful, perhaps illegal, and that the continued privatization of Iraq by U.S. war pirates represents the most despicable and darkest side of having our government illegitimately run by corporate corrupt fascists, and that we should get out and give up our plan to privatize Iraq away from the Iraqis.

When I look at Kucinich or hear him speak, I see and hear someone who has dedicated a career spanning 30 years in politics toward fighting for the regular people the Democratic Party is supposed to stand for, and in that way fighting to make the Democratic Party a viable *second* or *opposition* party.

If that's what a doofus looks like, then I want a doofus for President.

I'm sick of Democrats who just say "spend" and don't say where the money's coming from.

I'm sick of Democrats who will give the Pentagon more money for failing a "star wars" test, but who'll take money away from a school that fails a "standards" test.

I'm sick of Democrats who say that they'll "fix" NAFTA when the WTO forbids it.

I'm sick of Democrats who reject universal single-payer health care, even though it would cost less and cover everyone, and every other industrialized nation already has it.

I'm sick of Democrats who voted for Bush's disastrous "end-around" the Constitution by choosing an unprovoked invasion of Iraq but not calling it a "war," then claiming they were "fooled" by Bush's motives.

If the Democrats decide they want candidates who are "doofuses" on the issues, but who "sure look sharp" then they're choosing to reject me and people like me.

Fear Ends
Hope Begins
Kucinich 2004

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota