Kucinich is without a doubt the best man for the job and is the only candidate who really represents the middle class . Sadly the corporate power structure will never allow him to get a foothold . He is also hindered by the breathtakingly stupid concept of not looking presidential , whatever the hell that has to do with anything . The fact of the matter is that we are slowly turning into Mexico . In Mexico corporations and a tiny oligarchy have become so powerful the government has lost the power to regulate them and the average mexican has no real say in their treatment or governance . We are blindly sliding into the same pit of corporate fascism lubricated by our own collective stupidity , ignorance and inattention to history . So , Dennis , it would have been great but sadly you have no chance . You will get my vote and a few others and we will watch as you are buried in a fetid pile of corporate money and greed abetted by a public that has become a herd of blind mindless , selfdestructive sheep .

Dear Phil,
I like Dennis. Having said that, I am a candidate for president, hanging in the weeds, building my campaign web site, and writing down my platform which is articulate programs - what we need to do and how. On the web site www.thekidskeyboard.com you can see my recently published "New World Hors D'oeuvres" (subtitled) The Recipe for World Peace, besides my software for teaching the alphabet and numbers to preschoolers. I developed it. Click on the dolphin teacher in the screen shot and see how it works.

The campaign website is www.michaelslevinson.com. I urge you to take a look, especially at the hemp for health link and the Executive Orders. This web site is actually a repository of my campaign writings from 2000. Relative to Hemp, that plant loves carbon dioxide and spits out oxygen, so we need an Executive Order requiring all paper used by the government, all clothing worn by the military, to be manufactured from industrial hep grown by American farmers.

I look at the so-called candidates and hear bad poetry. They are good at identifying 'prob limbs' but light on actual solutions.

I have a carefully written a very specific Exit Strategy out of Iraq. I would love to do a deal with capital blue whereas I get these solutions written down I am then able to post them. Hopefully within the week I will have videos. One I would like you to see is of a speech I gave in New Hampshire, on New Hampshire Public television, in 1988.

There is a passage where I display my "Television Scripture" written down to perform on 'whirled' wide television for all man kind to participate in all at once, a passage (in rhyme) where i say / show the ice caps are going to melt from the dioxides in the air - i also had a solution back then.

In any case i am a victim of the Bush clan. Bar Donna Bush Corleone met me (or me - her) on election day back in '88, and she made it clear she despised me (because of remarks I made about her husband in my televised live speech).

The only jobs I can get, with her son president, is washing dishes in a hotel, through a temp agency. Any regular job, regardless how good my performance, an fbi person shows up, finds someone they can deal with above me, and I get pushed out. A pattern.

Every couple months, like clockwork a telemarketer from India calls me to inquire am i interested in their services for international calling. Ahhh. . . an overseas call - could be enemies - ahhh the 24/7 tap on my telephone. How about less than 700 words explaining a health program to provide coverage for 45 million people. How about an essay explaining how we have free political speech on network television paid for via a $2 check off on our income tax, and the threshold C-Span to eliminate obvious American Idol type publicity seekers.

Specific programs - not the whats, but how. The site is opposed to poli candidates pushing their programs, but how can such a 'rule" apply when we are talking candidates. My purpose here, were i able to offer the solutions I see, is to get feedback from the readership. In good faith

Michaelslevinson

OK Phil. Give me some of whatever you are smoking and I will vote for him too.
If he is the candidate.
I don't want to waste my vote on a 3rd party and let the damn republicans have another go at us.
Thanks tho for making me aware of DK. He sounds too good to be true.
Bill Robinson

Any Democrat worth his salt can agree with a lot of Kucinich's positions. But, we need to cast our votes where they most count, and that is for the candidate that has the best chance of beating the GOP's. Remember the Ralph Nader effect and how it attrituted to Gore's loss, especially in Florida. Kucinich's position in the list of candidates is around 1-2%. That means his chances are about as good as a fart in a whirlwind! Unless he is able to pull himself up to a reasonably viable candidate, I would NOT waste my vote on insuring that the GOP candidate wins! Use your head!

I have a giant strategy to wrest the election from politishinz. This is my lifetime ambition and I have a solution to nearly every prob limb we face! Truly I do. Don't reject me because I have not yet raised a g'zillion dollars. Having said that, on the politico site there is an article by Josephine Hearns Anti-war Dems divided over strategy. At Post 105 I put up the first part of my Iraq Exit Strategy. Then I followed it @ 106 or 107.

I'd like all of you to read it. I would love to articulate a solution to every quest yin you have about anything. When I get www.michaelslevinson totally updated and remodeled I will shout about the site from the roof tops. Later, in good faith

Michael Stephen levinson

mr. hirsh
The democrats usually find a way to lose. Maybe you've given them what they need. To lose again.

Dennis was very funny at the debate. He said, relative to our economic relations with China, when he was a kid they used to say, dig a hole and when you are done digging you will be in China. . . He looked into the camera and said, "We are there already."

I'm pleased my posts earlier were not erased because iamb a candidate.

After watching Dennis tonight I'm coming 'round to your point of view. No doubt he scares people because he really means it. My fear is that he'll cause a military/industrial complex coup.

If I hear one more political "sophisticate" claim that voting for the guy currently at the bottom of the polls is a wasted vote, I will SCREAM.

Do you not hear the insanity of your logic?

"I won't vote for somebody I consider the best choice for the job because they don't have a chance of getting elected...because I won't vote for somebody who doesn't have a chance of getting elected because I don't want to WASTE my vote."

Arrrrgh. Get out. This is the WORST FORM of front-runner mentality, and goes against the heart of our republic.

Polls are usually based on the views of about 1000 people. If 30% of them like a candidate in a large field, that might be enough to make them the front runner. So, for those who won't WASTE their vote on anybody who's not a front runner, that early front runner may not need more than that 30% at the end, since people who subscribe to this nonsensical logic will vote for the front runner, and people who are less interested will not consider their votes necessary which is why turnouts often fall well below 50% of eligible voters. And all this based on the views of a fraction of the nation's population...

So these brilliant logicians who consider their vote wasted on someone in a large field who only garners the interest from 1-2% of the poll's voters ignore the possibility of developing a coalition of those other 70% who don't favor the front runner.

Wake up, self-centered sophisticates. Your vote is wasted if you REFUSE TO vote for the person you think is the best one for the job.

Dennis Kucinich may not have a fart of a chance of winning, but what does it matter, the Democrats don't make good on promises anyway like the new Democratic congress that got in on getting us out of Iraq.

Do you think that if the Dems ran a campaign to get the majority they now have based on passing non-binding resolutions to get us out of Iraq
they would have gotten the votes they got.

The new Congress polls are lower then the Chimps.

The Dems had a chance and they blew it.

Dad Blasted Jack-Ass-Party

I wouldn't walk a mile for a Jack-Ass (except Dennis Kucinich)

RE: new Submitted by Uncle Ludwig on August 8, 2007 - 3:32am

I do not see anyone on this site advocating only voting for the front runner. Where did you read that? I posted a comment that we should vote for the person most likely to beat the GOP...that does not necessarily mean the front runner. So, it is an open ended question as to just whose logic is insanity. Polls DO have validity, irrespective of your position. If you can name one person in our history that came in to win an election from a 1-2% rating in the polls, you just might be able to support YOUR logic. Meantime, I plan to vote, as I said, for the candidate that has the best chance of beating the GOP. That implies, of course, that his/her position is most closely aligned with the values of the Democrats.

RE: Submitted by Uncle Ludwig on August 8, 2007 - 3:32am

I do not see any posts on here that indicates it would be best for one to vote for the front runner. I DO see on that indicates one should vote for the candidate that has the best chance of beating the GOP's candidate. That does not mean it necessarily has to be the front runner in the polls. It could be one polling second, or even third. Polls do have validity, despite your comments. There is a science here called statistics and they are more often right than wrong. Given this, it is an open ended question as to whose logic is sane. If you can produce even ONE presidential candidate in the entire history of this country that has come from a consist 1-2% rating to win, I will concede you just might have a point. Meantime, I plan to vote for the best candidate that has a chance of winning, despite your snide comments about other's opinions. And, by the way, few people depend on ONE poll, which you use for your logic. Knowledgable people watch for trends over time and what the candidates have to offer.

This is probably the best and most concise article on Dennis Kucinich I've read. Thank you, Phil, for writing it. Mimi

Hi VietnamVet,
Please read my reply to Bill Robinson above. A vote of Dennis would not be wasted and if he wins the Democratic Primary, there is no one in the GOP who could stand up to him. If only people would understand who he is and that he is not a third party candidate, he would be considered "viable."
Mimi

I really like Kucinich, and he is expressing views that the pharmaceuticals, Military Industrial complex will never accept, so we are stuck with Pillary who is in the pocket of Pharmecuticals, she even admits this.
Then there is Obama who wants to start BushCo Lite adventures and bomb Pakistan (yeah, that will help Musharraf to keep control of Islamic radicals even
more).

Edwards is the most palatable of the Corporate-Krats.
Edward's positives: He's against commerical nuclear power, his health care plans seem to be the best of the
three front runners.

However, I'm at the point where I am doubtfull of even Edwards, but he is less the Corporate-Krat then the other two.

Again, what does it matter if we get a corporate-krat in again, they won't rock the boat, they'll cozy up to corparate Amerika as soon as they get in, their record
proves it. The corparate-krats used to fill the minumum of catering to MIC, and were acceptable, but now the
the MIC is their total Mastuhs.

Did I miss something? When was the constitution amended to allow trolls to serve as president?

You folks are really something.

If you like the way this country has been run for the past 25 years, then vote for a "front-runner."

If you want a change in course for this country, vote for a different kind of candidate.

There's one in the Republican Party.

And there's one in the Democratic Party.

It's really that simple.

If you say that you want a change, and then don't vote for that change, well, I guess then... you're full of it.

Oh, and the person wanting to know who was at 2% and then won, How about Abraham Lincoln? And more recently that outsider Jimmy Carter. Both were nobodies in the early going. Even Bill Clinton wasn't given a chance in hell by the talking heads till after Iowa. You guys have a really bad memory.

I will definitely vote for Kucinich in the primaries, and on the extremely remote chance he wins, I will vote for him against whatever Republikaner he'll be against.

I will NOT, vote for Pillary Dillary Crock.

Obama lost it for me when he said he believes the US should attack Pakistan if there is actionable intelligence that Osama is hiding in a cave.

Attack Pakistan! Oh yeah, just go on attacking the world like The Chimp already has been doing. Attack the Fu*king world, great plan Obama.

Edwards is the only votable candidate in my opinion vs
Pillary Dillary Crock or General Obama Westmoreland.

I'm sure as hell not one to shrink from military options, but being a rogue nation attacking the world at will has not gained us security as The Chimp's
administration has since he's attacked everyone under the sun except the man on the moon.