Scrappy Dennis Kucinich Moving Up into Top Tier

Kucinich's moving up. Watch out Dean. It's a good article as it sets forth and discusses some of the important issues, as well as noting the momentum starting to build. That would be real good if Dennis K can get so MO.
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Scrappy Dennis Kucinich Appeals To Angry Voters
August 21, 2003
By DAVID LIGHTMAN, Washington Bureau Chief

WATERLOO, Iowa -- The 300 union members from across Iowa had sat for three long hours, listening to Democratic presidential candidates. The last would be Dennis Kucinich.

He quickly got the tired throng on its feet cheering, and by the time he was ready to wrap up 20 minutes later, the crowd had interrupted him with applause and cheers 13 times.
So moderator Mark Smith had to ask the Ohio congressman a question he had not asked anyone else: Can you win?

Sure, Kucinich said without hesitation, in a quick, assured cadence born of a lifetime of fighting against more powerful forces who asked similar questions. He comes from Ohio, a state with lots of electoral votes. He's beaten Republican incumbents. And, he said, "I'm the guy who provides the sharpest contrast with the Bush administration."

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Kucinich has made some progress, inching out of the lower group in recent weeks with a combination of well-received appearances, particularly before labor audiences, and a surprising ability to raise money.

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Don't forget -- he is to be on the Daily Show tonight (according to Daily Show Newsletter).

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Excuse me for my ignorance, but where is this?

Thanks!

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It was on starting 45 mins. ago and ended 15 mins. ago. Oh well ... I really could have used a little DK right now (having a rough time right now ...). *sigh*

Dennis Kucinich for President in 2004! :D

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it's on here again ... i'm planning on catching it at 10 pm pdt

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If you haven't seen the DK videos from Oklahoma - what a treat!
Here's your Dennis Fix:
http://www.newsok.com/?n_politics

By the way, sorry things are tough right now. Hope whatever it is you will feel better tomorrow or at least soon. Take good care.

Thanks very much - its been very difficult lately - serious health problems but I go on! Thanks for the fix! :D

Kucinich IS who Dean proports to be. Dean is my second choice, and I will not just vote but work for whoever the Dem candidate is.
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Dean actually said he used to be from the democratic wing of the democratic party....


People rip Dennis for a decision he made about his abortion stance over 3 years and Dean can rip Paul Wellstone's line off and then throw it back in our faces?



er... Sorry Dean people... that came out harsh... I just hate when Dennis gets attacked

but I interpreted it differently than the leader on your post. Lightman doesn't say that Kucinich is moving up into the top tier. I don't think that's even remotely within the realm of possiblility, and the author points out why it's unlikely to happen. Not that I don't think Dennis is a good guy, I just don't think he's a good candidate.

It's a must-see!

It is from the Oklahoma City newspaper site where they posted the Stillwater, OK forum (which never aired on CSpan due to a glitch) which was done "interview" style like an audition before a big crowd. The clips are EXCELLENT. In fact, the HOTLINE said it was the best joint appearance yet.

Dennis Kucinich was ON FIRE!

http://www.newsok.com/?n_politics

He is like a new version of Harry Truman and RFK combined! I love this man and I am finding many people out there have found him too. I've even found a couple of Dean supporters that have changed to supporting DK!

This is FANTASTIC for him!

DK's campaign is doing well! His site now sells t-shirts, bumper stickers, campaign buttons, etc. You might want to check it out - www.kucinich.us ! Lots of nice t-shirts for $12! :D

I've contributed to him a couple of times and will continue to support him until the bitter end!

I believe he is the only one out that that has a REAL message! I also believe he will be our next President! :D

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It was great and DK looks sharper than a tack!

Way to go Mr. President!!!

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Dennis is the real deal. Thanks for posting this one.

I might end up voting for him after all.

hopefully, will catch the 11 p.m.


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10 Key Issues
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Don't be fooled by the corrupting, compromising, poll-driven, big money candidates' and media attempts to marginalize you by trivializing one of America's most substantial presidential candidates since Franklin Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
Can he win? To borrow from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Let me count the ways."

Dennis Kucinich came out of a working class Cleveland neighborhood to run for City Council at age 21, and was elected at 23. His political career has been built on a series of upsets over "unbeatable" Republicans. As a result, he has served as a big city mayor, Ohio State Senator and U.S. Congressman. He has moved that congressional district from 34 percent Democratic, to 49 percent the first time he won, to 65 percent, and now 74 percent.

His colleagues in the House have demonstrated their respect for his abilities by electing him chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus -- the largest caucus in the House. He has been honored for his record of successful participation in global issues through a number of international organizations. In short, this is someone with decades of serious and successful political and governmental experience at all levels.

Moreover, he has a demonstrated ability to work with those of all political persuasions; he's a progressive who can work with -- without capitulating to -- business. He manages to hold to his idealism while functioning as one of the nation's most practical and successful progressives.

His platform stands in stark contrast to the Bush Administration's programs -- in contrast to those candidates who seem not to distance themselves too far from a popular president and his wars.

But perhaps his greatest winning quality is that he comes across as the kind of genuine human being Americans ache to find in their candidates. This is not just another slick, poll-driven, media make-over, actor. The kind of response he gets from those who've heard him is something the likes of which I haven't witnessed since Robert Kennedy.

Kucinich has been drawing very large, enthusiastic crowds in Iowa and around America because he speaks with a compassion and sincerity listeners find unambiguous and genuine. He talks about the country's real needs and ideals in a language that is at once both street savy and simple while reflective of a well-informed and thoughtful, educated eloquence, courage and wit.

Can he win? As Dennis Patrick Welch and I analyze it, Kucinich just may be the only Democrat who can.

-- Nicholas Johnson, Iowa City, Iowa



Power to the People by Dennis Kucinich
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16625

http://www.kucinich.us/


A Letter from Studs Terkel:

When I think of Dennis Kucinich, I think immediately of what our country is all about. Not only does he have the guts to speak out when others are silent, when others compromise their principles -- he does it in a manner that sets all hearts on fire. He speaks hope for those who have lost hope.

I have followed his career in public life ever since he was "the Boy Mayor of Cleveland". He, in saving municipal ownership of power from a corporate take-over, was a young Horatio at the bridge. It cost him his job, but he saved what is known as MUNY Light. Today, he is honored by the city, when once he was declared 'dead meat'. He is very much alive and speaking with his natural eloquence -- the language of all working men and women, of all small farmers, of all who believe in a better life and a safer world, for their children and others' children.

He's my man!

Studs Terkel
Chicago, Illinois

Statement from Granny D

Granny D (Doris Haddock) is the unstoppable social change activist, now in her 90s, from the first primary state of New Hampshire. At age 89, she wore out four sets of shoes and was hospitalized in Arizona for dehydration and pneumonia, but she would not be deterred as she marched for campaign reform from California to her triumphant arrival in Washington D.C. 14 months later. Now, she is on the march for Dennis.

"I am proud to endorse Dennis Kucinich for President.

When I walked 3,200 miles across the United States for campaign reform and inquired of people why they were not voting, they said: 'Find us someone who understands us, who cares about us.' I'm talking about people living in trailers, people living in small towns with boarded-up windows on Main Street, with drugstores, grocery stores, hardware stores
all eaten up by Wal-Mart, Costco, CVS Drugs, Home Depot, and other monsters several miles beyond the town. People coming out of farmhouses in Iowa, squeezed out of their livelihood by stinking agri-hog farms, people coming out of tobacco fields, cotton fields, wheat fields, people living in cities who have been out of work for over a year, people whose well-paid jobs have been shipped overseas, people desperate for relief from the oppressions of our corporatized and disempowered lives.

I promised to look for someone who would understand them, that had a vision of the future for them, that believed in Peace, Love, Justice. Well, here he is: Dennis Kucinich.

I believe he is the candidate who can bring new voters and disgruntled voters into the political process.

To those people I met on my walk across America: 'Now keep your promise to me and come out and vote for him! Hugs.'"

Sounds like the Greens' "10 Key Values"?

www.gp.org

Kucinich and Dean are doing that! Tapping into that anger that's held inside since Selection 2000!

I want angry dems and I want cheering, screaming with joy Dems.....we've been gloomy and depressed too long........

dollar pentagon budget, equalling that of the entire world combined and 40 times more than "Rogue" states labeled by the US.

Truly...that is NOTHING to be proud about.

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