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(Kucinich campaign email)
Dear Fellow Kucinich Supporters,
On Saturday night we officially became the United States of Disney.
While Republican candidates railed about the threat of Islamo-fascists,
Americans were oblivious that in fact, the greatest treat to our freedom
was transpiring right before them - corporate-controlled media, a key
component of fascism, used their power to exclude the one candidate from
the debates who dares to stand up to them. To "cover" their coup, they
ran a silly fluff piece prior to the debate about people who are
running for president with no organization behind them and questioned why
they would do such a thing other than to massage their own egos.
But the candidate Disney/ABC arbitrarily excluded from the debate is a
viable candidate who has hundreds of thousands of supporters and a
solid organization in every state. Dennis Kucinich has been campaigning
non-stop for over a year with his wife, Elizabeth. He's on the ballot in
almost every state. This isn't some vanity campaign that the
Corporate-controlled media has deliberately tried to make disappear - this is the
one candidate who is running for all the right reasons - because he
wants to save our country from the takeover of special interests.
While John Edwards, during the debate, eloquently and passionately
decried the stranglehold special interests have on our nation, he never
once mentioned that Disney/ABC had excluded one of his fellow candidates
from the debate. How disingenuous! He also failed to mention the fortune
he has invested in a hedge fund that makes him as vested in these
special interests as anyone.
I watched the entire debate on Saturday night, and have to admit that
compared to the Republicans, any of the Democratic candidates sounded
like a good bet. But here's the catch - while they debated who was the
more likely to bring about change and who had more experience actually
initiating change, not one of them has ever proved they have the courage
to stand up to the status-quo that will do whatever it takes to prevent
change. If they had, ABC would have kept them off that stage too. So
while just about everything spoken by the four Democratic candidates
sounded good, I couldn't help thinking that this was just another Disney
performance. Put any of them in the White House and you'll get the same
disappointment we're experiencing with the Democratic Congress we
elected in '06. We worked our tails off to get them elected and they
conveniently forgot why we did it.
Here are some words you didn't hear uttered during the debate - words
that Dennis Kucinich would have said if he had been given his place at
the table. Words the American people deserve to hear:
Impeach - The majority of Americans want to see Bush and Cheney held
accountable for the lies and corruption that have driven our country to
the brink of moral, financial and military bankruptcy. Dennis Kucinich
introduced a bill to impeach Dick Cheney last November. The Democratic
leadership moved to table it. It was only because REPUBLICANS voted
against tabling it that the bill didn't die immediately on the floor and
instead now languishes in the Judicial Committee.
Not for Profit Health Care - Don't let them fool you - the insurance
companies are the problem because they only make a killing when they deny
patients health care. Keep them in the mix and you will never have
healthcare for all.
End NAFTA and get out of the WTO - Although Edwards briefly alluded to
the problems our trade agreements have caused to working-class
Americans, no Democratic candidate is ever going to criticize a trade policy
that was put through by President Bill Clinton - even if it is the cause
of not only job loss, but the surge in illegal immigration from Mexico.
No candidate, that is, except the one we can count on to always speak
the truth - Dennis Kucinich.
The corporate-controlled, censored media has carefully orchestrated the
obliteration of Dennis Kucinich. This is the third debate he's been
kept from. They are also distorting his politically strategic move in the
Iowa caucuses to suggest supporters cast their second vote for Obama,
as a indication that Dennis has quit the race and is throwing his
support behind Obama. Nothing could be further from the truth! In fact, Bill
Richardson did the exact same thing as Kucinich and he still got to be
in the debate last night!
Is it too late? Has corporate-controlled media become so powerful that
they can decide who our candidates are, and delude us into thinking we
are actually electing our leaders? There's one way to find out. Let's
make this a real democracy where people talk to people. Let's spend the
next weeks before our state primary contacting voters and telling them
about the one candidate who hasn't just been talking about change, his
entire political career has been the embodiment of change.
What you do over the next few weeks might mean the difference between
waking up this time next year in a Disneyland where the majority of
Americans will be grateful for the most menial jobs, while the wealthy few
get a free ride, or taking our country back from the
military/industrial/insurance/media fascists. Please go to www.California4Kucinich.com
now and sign up to be on a DK Team. We are currently organizing to reach
out to voters by phone and in person and your local DK Team Leader will
contact you to see the best way you can get involved.
In peace & hope,
Jeeni
(Please let me know if posting an entire email such as this is a violation of the DU terms of service- I know that you can only quote four paragraphs from news articles, but those are out there for everyone to link to. Thanks.)
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