December 15th

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A member over at Democratic Underground suggested we make donations to the Kucinich campaign on December 15th. I asked what the significance of that date was. Shows how much I know. It is the date the Bill of Rights took effect in 1791. As the person says:

I don't think it matters whether you can donate $100 or $10, the important thing is that folks donate. Even if Dennis is not your first choice, isn't it worth a donation to his campaign simply to open up the debate for the American people? Right now, the media and their corporate sponsored big money candidates are running everything. I say lets turn the tables on the media and let them know America can no longer be railroaded by their manipulation of information.

I completely agree. Enough is enough.

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Eat Your Kucinich

Eat Your Kucinich. He's Good For You.

Listen to the man and don’t waste his time and trivialize him with questions of little green men. Maybe he’s trying to write checks that he can’t cash. But if you’re going to fall for someone hook, line and sinker, why bother trusting someone who promises to extend the war in Iraq by another year or four, someone who's accepted more money from more people and corporations in the last year than Jerry Lewis in the last 40?

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Programming

The Chicago Tribune has a good article about Kucinich. I was struck by something as I read in comment after comment from people who think Kucinich is right on and the kind of man they want in the White House yet in the same breath they say he can't win.



How complete is the influence of the corporate media. It has convinced people that the candidate they want, the candidate they yearn for, can't win.

This is just incredible. This candidate expresses everything people say they want to happen, from the withdrawal from Iraq to health care to the environment to help for the middle class... on and on. And yet thousands of people are convinced he can't win simply because the media tells them so. As Marc Maron says, Wake up sheeple. The first step to reclaiming your nation is to take that bold move and vote for the candidate who truly represents you—regardless of what the media is telling you. They have a vested interest in keeping him out of power. He is not corporate America's friend. He is yours.

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Low Polls

One possible reason Kucinich and Gravel are so low in the polls: the polls aren't asking about them.

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Why I'll Vote Kucinich

Good article over at Democratic Underground:

Dennis Kucinich recently did the unthinkable. He went beyond accusations of Bush’s war being a mistake, to expose the real motivations for the war. Of course, it should have been obvious from almost the beginning that Bush’s motivations for war in Iraq were not at all in accordance with professed American ideals. His claims of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein connections with al Qaeda never had any basis in actual evidence; almost immediately after our invasion of Iraq we moved to protect the oil supply while allowing everything else to go to hell; Bush provided no-bid contracts to his cronies, with little oversight, while billions of dollars went missing; and the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group report provides numerous recommendations (or maybe ‘demands’ is a better word) on how the Iraqis should handle their oil.

But Kucinich actually says it out loud: The Iraq War was not a “mistake”; the primary motive of the Bush administration for invading Iraq was to provide a cheap source of oil for American oil companies; we are currently trying to force an agreement with Iraq to gain their consent for our “theft” of Iraqi oil; Kucinich calls Bush’s invasion of Iraq what it was – a war crime; and he points out the obvious: How can our current imperialistic stance towards Iraq possibly lead to stabilization of that country or the surrounding area – as we are currently claiming as our primary reason for staying there?

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