More Kucinich coverage, and I like it.

I just heard Kucinich on the radio for maybe the second time in a month. He had a 4-5 minuted interview on Living on Earth (carried by my local NPR station) recently and I just heard him on some other NPR show about an hour ago. I don't know if it was an hourly report, or as part of a show.

Now, I'm sure I've heard him before. However, these last two times it wasn't the loud, stacatto, regional accented Kucinich that usually shows up for the debates. It was the conversational, calm, thoughtful Kucinich.

And I have to say, he's good. It's not just what he's saying, but how he says it.

I'm sure he has been giving interviews like these for months, but only now, by chance, or by media design, I'm hearing them. I like this Kucinich. This could work for him.

With the Alexa stuff, his winning the last debate, and now the slight bit of added coverage, I wonder if he's had the best week of all the candidates.

Now, I'm not going to go switching candidates. But I have to say, it's peope like Kucinich who make me like politics in the first place, and for the first time in the campaign I'm seeing the Kucinich that his hard-core supporters must see.

DK doesn't have a droolworthy picture of himself in a football uniform, after all. ;)

Later.

RJS

...perhaps DK played a little all-time center back in his day. lol

Later.

RJS

Theres a picture in the RS interview.

and Nothern Ohio is the country's football mecca

I'd like to put that up next to GWB.

He does :) Not what I would call "droolworthy" though <lol>.

Dennis was a 3rd string QB back in his school days. I think the pic is hilarious, and I am one of his biggest backers. :)

I can't BELIEVE Dennis was ever a quarterback, lol.

Later.

RJS

Not a .jpg, so you'll have to click to see...

http://resources.kucinich.us/show_image.php?id=287

You have to admit, the guy's got HEART!

Thanks snoochie Ya found it before I did :)

Glad to help... was just browsing those pics earlier...

My favorite is the pic of him and brother Gary with Santa in 1953.

And yep, MuseRider, I'm with you... he's as cute as can be!

one of the cutest things I have ever seen! Being the mother of a college age and a high schooler I can say that I am taken by that picture. What heart and what a cutie!

He didn't let size stop him from playing football. That the team put him front and center shows that they considered him an important part of the team even if he was third string.

I like that.

to go out for football if you are 4'9" and 97 pounds. The back of the football card refers to 'eating a lot of turf.' I read someplace that his coach said Dennis was regularly flattened by upperclassmen twice his size, but he got up every single time.

Just reminds me of that movie! The guy has always had heart and spunk. Thanks for that.

He was probably the Rudy of his team.

Later.

RJS

beautifully said, yo!

I'm just saying what is obviously true.

And I'll repeat it: the Living on Earth interview and the interview I just heard revealed a DK that I've not seen the press present before three days ago, and it's good.

If it's the case that Kucinich just decided to change his tone and presentation and the depth of thought he's willing to give an individual subject even in an interview with serious time constraints, he has done something very smart.

However, I suspect it's more of a case that he's been doing this all along, but it just happened to slip through the media black out and I caught it.

The Living on Earth interview, by the way, packed a wallop. He gave about 20 minutes of ideas in 5 minutes, and his presentation was still "easy." You know what I mean?

His platform is dreamy, just hope he gets more attention.

e-mail or call ABC

From DK's newsletter:

ABC News Pulls Reporter off Kucinich Campaign

For Immediate Release: December 10, 2003

The day after Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich took ABC debate moderator Ted Koppel to task for avoiding questions that would be useful to voters in favor of questions about endorsements, money, and polls, ABC pulled its fulltime "embedded" reporter from the Kucinich campaign, a reporter who had been given no warning that such a move was coming and who had discussed at length yesterday with the Kucinich campaign staff her plans and her needs for the coming months.

ABC has reportedly also pulled its reporters from covering the presidential campaigns of Rev. Al Sharpton and Ambassador Carol Mosley-Braun.

This appears to be another instance of what Kucinich criticized at the debate, namely the media trying to pick candidates, rather than letting the voters do so. In a democracy, it should be voters and not pundits or TV networks who narrow the field of candidates.

This move, before any state's caucus or primary, appears based on a belief that viable candidates can be predicted 11 months prior to an election, a belief that flies in the face of the historical record. Time and again candidates dismissed as "fringe" have wound up either with the nomination or with a significant impact on the convention and in the primaries.

This action by ABC, as well as Koppel's comments during the debate, can only serve to disempower Americans, communicating to them that someone other than they is deciding elections and that their votes don't mean much.

This action also seems to conflict with the network's interest in boosting ratings and Koppel's expressed interest in making the debate exciting, given that Kucinich received the loudest applause of the evening.

ABC presumably has no vested interest in discouraging voting or in lowering its ratings. It may, however, have an interest in whether Koppel's prediction of the viability of various candidacies proves true.

TELL ABC NEWS WHAT YOU THINK

Email nightline@abc.com or call (202) 222-7364 or fax (202) 222-7976.

Note to moderator: No copyright, it is for dissemination.

Dennis has been giving great interviews for awhile now. Glad you got to hear a couple. He certainly comes across as very reasonable and possessing a lot of common sense when giving these types of interviews.

Check out this site for some great audio . . .

http://kucinichwatch.com/audio.htm

If you can... go see him live. You will not regret it. I've admired him for years and did my small part in drafting him to run after Prayer for America. Your post made a lot of that work worth it. Thank you!

I will PM you something that you should check. I don't want to post it here because it encourages freeping and so far this poll has been kept very clean.

Peace

Thanks for the PM.

;) Anytime!

Peace

I lvoe listening to and watching Kucinich speeches and statements.

He is a great speaker, despite what many uninformed state here on DU.
Often I get all emotional when listening to him. Shhh don't tell anyone :P!


TWL

all candidates in interviews since the debates are generally so badly done. Edwards does a good interview, too. Both of them are intelligent, know what they want to say, and say it clearly. Both also seem to be warm people, people you could talk to. I'd like to see them run together.

If he becomes president, he will not only change the USA, but the whole world. Everybody will follow.
I am so inspired by his courage, that I want to share some quotes with everyone:

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else
--Erma Bombeck

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
--Samuel Johnson

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
--Albert Einstein

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads.
--Erica Jong

Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them.
--Brendan Francis

One man with courage makes a majority.
--Andrew Jackson

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
--Adam Michnik

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
--Alan Cohen

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
--Margaret Chase Smith

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
--Martin Luther King, jr.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
--Soren Kierkegaard

There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.
--Thomas Jefferson

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
--Dostoyevsky

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses courage loses all.
--Cervantes

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
--Channing Pollock

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
--Lewis Carroll

This one's good (the one I was looking for):

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.
--Billy Graham

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

John asked him who his best buddy was in the feild of presidential canidates... He say John Edwards! At the debates you never see these 2 guys go at eachother, and usually at the end you can spot them shaking hands.

I think they both come from similiar places in life, they both had to work their way through college, etc. I have a lot of repect for John Edwards.

I'm only half listening, and I don't know if it was a mention by more liberal local affiliate of something coming up on a locally-produced show, or a more-liberal syndicated show, or if it was morning edition, but they just said later today, they'll be doing a story on DK and his progressive politics.

Then my local station did their wealther/traffic report and played the Clash's Kick it Over (I think that's the song name...it's definitely the refrain) as the background music.

I would love to believe that it was my local affiliate doing the DK plug and then picking an appropriate song after mentioning his name.

His progressive stances on the issues would be a great boon to the people of the United States.