Kucinich: What do we stand for as a Party?

Hi Everyone, this is Dennis.

There is a lot at stake at this moment. The President has said that he intends to stay the course in Iraq. That course is one which will increase the number of deaths and injuries, not only to our troops but to many innocent people in Iraq, ultimately making Americans less safe at home and less welcome around the world.

If we continue on this course, spending upwards of $200 billion in Iraq, America will continue to sacrifice a domestic agenda that is already failing to provide sufficient funding for education, health care, housing, job creation, veterans, and environmental protection. People ask me why I continue to run for president when the nomination's already been decided. Someone has to be offering alternatives to keep our troops in Iraq from an indefinite future. Someone has to say that the Democratic Party must offer a course of action which will enable America to connect with the world community, stop the waste of our precious tax resources, stabilize Iraq, and bring our troops home. Someone has to be the voice for universal, single-payer, not-for-profit health care so universally supported, and so desperately needed.

Someone has to say that NAFTA and the WTO must be replaced by trade structures which enshrine ethical principles of workers rights, human rights, and environmental protection. Someone has to say the PATRIOT Act must go.

The nomination's been decided. Now we must decide what we stand for as a party. If we offer real choices, real alternatives, show how people will really win something when they vote Democrat, we will win in November. I'm pledged to that outcome.

We cannot, and we must not, let our party sink into indecision and indifference on matters of war and peace, as we prepare for the November elections. That is why I will continue on this campaign, and that is why you are needed too. I can continue doing what I'm doing as long as I have your help.

Our campaign has had amazing success over the last year in keeping alive hopes of millions for peace, for health care, for fair trade, for renewal of our civil liberties. We recently once again made our fundraising goal for the 4th consecutive quarter.

I need your continued help. If you have already contributed the maximum to this campaign, thank you so much. And if you have not, please make another contribution today to Kucinich for President, at either our website at http://www.kucinich.us/contribute.php , or send a check to our national campaign headquarters at 11808 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44111.

Help keep alive the debate about Iraq. Help keep alive the hopes of people for a single-payer, national health care system. Help keep alive workers' rights, human rights, and environmental quality principles and trade agreements. Help keep alive the efforts to repeal the PATRIOT Act. Help keep alive the progressive movement inside the Democratic Party.

The next few weeks are crucial, as we wind up the primaries and caucuses, draft a Democratic Party platform, and prepare for the convention. There is a lot at stake in this moment. Please help us bring forth the best that is in all of us. Thank you so much.

Dennis Kucinich

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yeah yeah...I know...if I have to my vote goes to Kerry...


Help keep alive the debate about Iraq. Help keep alive the hopes of people for a single-payer, national health care system. Help keep alive workers' rights, human rights, and environmental quality principles and trade agreements. Help keep alive the efforts to repeal the PATRIOT Act. Help keep alive the progressive movement inside the Democratic Party.



But why aren't people paying more attention to what Dennis says...he is SO right on...am gonna contribute soon...next week hopefully!


:loveya: DK


Peace
DR

Its unfortunate he cant be president but maybe just maybe he will get a leadership post in the house.

He is the BEST man for the job of President of the United States without a doubt!




Hang in there Dennis! There are some of us that are with you until the bitter end!

:dem: :kick:

that Kerry is beginning to incorporate some ideas that are leaning in a Kucincih-like direction into his discussions of Iraq.

Our efforts were NOT wasted.

good for him. He is listening.

Glad to see DK still at it.

candidate that is still running for President. You won't see Dennis embracing the Miami Cubans or the Venezuelan elites. You won't see Dennis remaining silent about the carnage we are causing in Iraq, or Bush's embrace today of Sharon's plan to forever gobble up Palestinian lands.

'nuff said

It's a good thing. :thumbsup:

what is the point of having a Democratic party platform?

Maybe just another way to push the Kucinich agenda, but there are a lot of other ways, too.

democratic party doesn't represent us anymore.

I don't say that with joy.

:(

Kanary

I wish our choices had more hope for the world.

Dennis is a choice, not an echo!

Please describe.

how Dennis and the people who agree with him (at to at least a large degree I do) can avoid getting just a pat on the head and a brush-off at the convention, no matter how vigorously he campaigns.

I just don't see how he can effectively hold the party's feet to the fire, rather than merely be an honorable voice crying in the wilderness while the DLC controls the levers of power.

And I want to find a way to hold their feet to the fire, before the convention when there'll be an opportunity to evaluate the results by at least seeing what effect they've had on the platform.

I'd like to find out who's actually organizing an effort to make it clear that there's a constituency out here that's willing to work for Kerry if he earns it, and equally committed to working against him if he doesn't. Is there any such?

- bill

May I suggest an alternative? A leap of faith--maybe a little irrational. Support Kerry no matter what. You will get someone a lot closer to your values if you do.

of a convincing change from the Kerry and the party leadership that I see now. And even if I were still willing to consider it, there'd be no reason whatsoever to do that now, while there's still an opportunity to try to move the party in a better direction.

- bill

And I voted for George McGovern. And I would vote again for George McGovern. But we need someone who can beat an incumbent president who is a wartime "hero." And it ain't George McGovern, ehr, Dennis Kucinich.

bullshit

bullshit

"Vietnamize" = "de-Americanize"

Since when did the US call for bringing the UN into Viet Nam?

in this campaign. I totally trust in his integrity and his devotion to the people and not the machinations of the party leadership.

No one else can compare to him...no one.

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