Kucinich accidentally elected president--remember?

[eridani]

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hsp/32_Kucinich.html

“Alternatives my ass.” Agreed Feingold. “It's like being given a choice between a right handed pencil and a left handed pencil. But now, since all the candidates from any party all got on the presidential ballot, we finally had a chance for reasonably fair, democratic elections. I mean come on, aside from freakishly liberal, naively idealistic Peacenik groups like Unions, Amnesty International, and the Harvard Students Against the Militarization of Space, who would have predicted that Dennis Kochanek would ever win? Seriously?”

In order to test the McCain-Feingold claim, we decided to get a little input from the public at how they thought the new election process worked. Boston area waitress Claire Burton had this to say. “I thought for sure I was voting for Kerry. I mean CNN always said all these great things about him. I don't remember exactly what they said, but I do remember it was good. When I saw that “Godspeed You Black Emperor!” had all these things that I agreed with, I figured for damned sure it was Kerry. Guess I was wrong. I had never even heard of that David Kucinich guy.”

[eridani]

1. Counterpunch article

http://www.counterpunch.org/dong08232003.html

Dennis J. Kucinich first made his name in politics by becoming the youngest mayor of a large city, when in 1977 he became the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio at age 31. He took over a city that was deeply in debt but, as these things tend to go, was soon blamed for the city's financial crises. The city tried to negotiate the renewal of $14 million worth of notes held in local banks. A rollover, it's called, and it's usual for banks to agree. Not this time.

The banks had a get-rich-quick scheme up their sleeve. They wanted Mayor Kucinich to sell the city's electric company, MUNY Light, to Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company whose parent company nowadays is, you guessed it, First Energy. Why did these bankers want that? Well, of the eleven directors of Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, eight were also directors of four of the banks. And five of the banks held almost 1.8 million shares of CEI stock.

So the banks pushed the city into default and Kucinich lost his next re-election bid because of First Energy's greed. Oh, yes, greed. Because in the 1990s, the people of Cleveland woke up to the fact that Dennis Kucinich had saved them all a ton of money. In 1998, the Cleveland City Council honored him for "having the courage and foresight to refuse to sell the city's municipal electric system," saying he had saved Clevelanders more than 300 million -- that 300 million that they would have paid to CEI if Kucinich had caved in. But he didn't. That doesn't seem to be his style.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. LOL, I never saw that before! What a hoot!

I especially liked it when the authot made Dennis say

"But I guess now that I'm President, I'll first pull our troops out of Iraq and get the UN in. Then I'll get to work on universal health care, which should be no problem considering that fucking Thailand already has it. . . "

Fucking Thailand, indeed!

[JohnKleeb]

3. hah I cant see him saying fucking

Hey you know whats cool about him is that he incorporates all three of what makes me who I am, he's a Catholic like I am, he and I are similiar politically, and he and I are ethnically similiar as well. Really was proud to find out that he's leading the charge in congress with others to support Kofi Annan.

[LWolf]

4. He still brings hope,

even after the november disaster. He didn't skip a beat; he was in my state for a big rally for the DOP within days, he's back to work in the house, and he hasn't backed down or given an inch.

[JohnKleeb]

5. He's a hard worker

Really is rather underappreciated I think.

[eridani]

6. You're right, he wouldn't actually say that--

--except in a parody. He wouldn't smoke the pot either.

[JohnKleeb]

7. hah hes a non pot head for sensible drug laws

As am I.