It's time. It's time to support Dennis Kucinich and to

[DemBones DemBones]

ignore all the naysayers at DU. I'm ignoring anti-Kucinich posts from now on as what they are: deliberate attempts to bring down the most progressive candidate the Dems have.

I urge other Kucinich supporters to join me in boycotting the naysayers' posts and focusing on helping Dennis. We need to work on organizing locally and we need to work on the media if they start taking the same attitude toward Denns that they showed in 2004. Things have changed since 2004. Everyone except George Bush and Barney now wants to get out of Iraq. Dennis proposes using $70 million that's "in the pipeline" to get the troops home now. No more appropriations for war in Iraq. If people don't want to do that and to use diplomacy to ease tensions with the Muslim world, they'd better be prepared to spend many years and many trillions of dollars, and to have a universal draft, to try to keep putting out fires across the Muslim world. (Not that Dennis would suggest the latter; I'm just saying it seems to me it's one or the other -- peace now or all-out unending war.)

Americans are worried about being able to afford medical care, many of them having no medical insurance. Dennis knows how to solve that: Medicare for everyone. The structure of the program is already in place and has been working well for years, it's cost-efficient, and simply needs expansion.

Americans are also worried about the outsourcing of American jobs; even if it doesn't affect them personally, they know it's hurting other Americans and hurting the economy. Dennis has a long record of support for labor and will work to stop the outflow of American jobs. Americans need to be taught what they've forgotten: that labor unions didn't just help raise their members' salaries. All salaries increased. When union membership was high, we had a strong economy in which one salary was enough to support a family. CEOs were well-paid, but not as exorbitantly as they are today. We had a middle class.

I have no doubt that Dennis Kuchinich's message will resonate with people in 2008 who wouldn't have listened to it in 2004.

It's time to get to work for Dennis and for this nation.

http://www.kucinich.us

Kucinich and the U.S., Kucinich and us

[goodhue]

1. Okay

Sounds good to me. But it will be hard to re-create what happened in Minnesota in 2003-04 without a well structured national organization with some paid experienced organizers. MN4DK was a truly volunteer run grassroots thing (and pretty disconnected from Cleveland HQ), and much of that energy has dissipated. The time is now was then and I presently stuggle to see how the time will be now again. That said, the message is great, and is needed now more than ever, so it will be a pleasure to promote Dennis Kucinich for president.

[AbbyR]

2. Would love to

I really hope we can get some sort of national strategy going, and I also hope Dennis will be allowed to get his message out. Common sense seems like such a rare commodity today.

[Desertrose]

3. So glad I saved all my DK bumperstickers & goodies from '04

Had a feeling they'd come in handy.

I am SO glad Dennis is doing this. Bless him...he's gonna need all our energy & support!!

DK rocks!!!!


DR

[MaggieSwanson]

4. I'm not ready to ignore the negative comments quite yet.

Why do the same people that decry tearing down other candidates feel it is permissable to do so with Dennis?

I don't feel like backing away from it like I did in 2003/2004.

On a positive note, I'm feeling so energized and ready to canvas! My sleeves are rolled up, I'm ready to go here in Iowa.

[DemBones DemBones]

5. I admit I just wrote several posts replying to people who said

"Too bad he can't win" or "I'll support him if he gets enough support." We probably should keep getting the message out in GD and GDPolitics that long shots have won before, and that Dennis is the only Dem -- as far as I know at present -- who fully realizes the need to go back to paper ballots nationwide. IMO, it's a waste of time to ask for receipts from machines because it won't prevent the vote being rigged. Even without tampering, machines make mistakes, and machines don't care about fairness. Bipartisan counting teams care about getting the count right.

[DemBones DemBones]

6. As I feared, the media have marginalized Dennis ever since his

announcement. Tonight, I heard all the candidates mentioned except Dennis. Please start demanding equal coverage!

[mmonk]

7. It's hard for me to do for one reason.

They influence others.

[Prophet 451]

8. I never heard of the guy until 2004

I'm a Brit so many of your senators/congressmen are unknown to me. I first became aware of Dennis during the coverage of the 2004 primaries when a name I'd never heard before cropped up. Then I heard Mike Malloy mention the guy's name so I did a bit of digging and found that his positions were fairly in line with my own. So far, I didn't think much of it but then, his name kept coming up on DU so I went and looked at his site for the 2008 run, actually read his policy positions.

I've never heard Dennis Kucinich speak. I've never seen the man on television or in my newspaper so reading his positions was something of a surprise. I found that I agreed with him on virtually everything. I had some minor quibbles on some stuff but nothing that would make me heisitate from voting for him if I could. The guy made a believer out of me.

So, I gotta ask: Why isn't he getting more support? The US has been dominated by the radical right for the last six years, pretty much everyone's had enough of it so why isn't the most liberal candidate (really, the only one who offers anything more substantial than tinkering with the status quo) getting more support? Is change really that scary?

[mmonk]

9. The media.