Comments on: Did Dennis Kucinich Just Make Sense?

By: Jay Reding

Jay Reding — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:03:29 +0000

Saying we should make Osama bin Laden Chief Justice of the Supreme Court would also be “new and different” — but also an incredibly dumb idea.

Just because Kucinch has ideas which are “new and different” doesn’t mean that his ideas are logical, rational, or wise.

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:10:26 +0000

You’re absolutely right, of course. Why listen to Kucinich and his new, different ideas? Everything is just working so WELL as it is.

By: Eracus

Eracus — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:39:36 +0000

“I see absolutely no reason why its in the Dems’ interest to play footsie with a news organization that is the propaganda arm of their opposition.”

Right. Being defeatists, it’s always in the Democrats’ interest to run away from what they cannot overcome, even if it’s only Dennis Kucinich.

And we should let these chickens run the country?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:03:23 +0000

Eracus, if Kucinich and Wellstone were wrong and you were right, show us where Hussein had the capacity to produce a mushroom cloud.

Jay:

“No doubt that a candidate in a general election would not give up the free airtime, but since the Democrats are currently in a race to try to suck up to the “netroots” and the radical left, there’s no political price to be paid by skipping this debate.”

Except that in the current deranged climate of full-time Presidential campaign coverage 21 months before the election, the candidates get plenty of free airtime as is, except of course for marginal candidates like Kucinich. And the more the party can keep him off camera, the better for them (or so they think at least). I see absolutely no reason why its in the Dems’ interest to play footsie with a news organization that is the propaganda arm of their opposition.

By: Jay Reding

Jay Reding — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:15:53 +0000

…so if fox news isn’t more biased than the NYT, how do you explain its response to the libby verdict?

It was true.

Libby was only convicted of four of the five charges. Fox listed the each count in the crawl. Libby was found not guilty of lying to the FBI.

In other words, the supposed “lie” is itself a lie.

By: Eracus

Eracus — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:44:22 +0000

Dennis Kucinich, like Paul Wellstone, has the courage of his convictions. They just happen to be wrong.

By: Mera

Mera — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:25:24 +0000

National Health Care would give us hospitals with the efficiency of the US Postal Service, the thriftiness of the Pentagon and the compassion of the IRS. Our wound soldiers go to Walter Reed—and live with mold growing on the walls and mice running in the hallway. Ask anyone who has worked at a Veteran’s Hospital if we want expand that system of (non) care.

By: shyestviolet

shyestviolet — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:59:21 +0000

…so if fox news isn’t more biased than the NYT, how do you explain its response to the libby verdict?

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/index.php?p=367

hmmmmmm…

me? I’m signing up for that department of peace. sounds nice and peaceful.

By: Jay Reding

Jay Reding — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:55:37 +0000

Sorry Jean, but Kucinich certainly doesn’t speak for me. Nationalized health care would be a disaster that would make our health care system infinitely worse than it is now. Ending free trade would be another huge disaster that would cause millions of Americans to lose their jobs and wreck the economy.

And don’t get me started on a “Department of Peace” either…

Kucinich is a legitimately nice guy, but he’s not exactly the most realistic thinker out there. I don’t doubt the honesty of his convictions, just that those convictions don’t translate into very smart policy.

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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:26:14 +0000

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By: Jean Hay Bright

Jean Hay Bright — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:20:51 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly, except for the last phrase in your last sentence. When even dyed-in-the-wool conservatives start thinking that Dennis Kucinich makes more sense than most of the Democratic field on an issue, it’s time to wake up and recognize that Kucinich speaks for us all.

Iraq was a mistake, and Dennis Kucinich knew it from the beginning. National health care, Medicare for all, is the best way to go, and Congressman Kucinich has a bill in Congress (HR 676), the Conyers-Kucinich Health Care Bill, that would do just that. Kucinich wants us out of NAFTA, CAFTA, and all the other un-fair trade agreements that have cost this country so many good-paying jobs.

Mainstream ideas, every one, yet none of the Democrats running for President dare to follow his lead. It is time to rethink Kucinich. http://www.kucinich.us