Re: Kucinich: "my intention is to establish a second party"

I never thought Tom DeLay and Kucinich were of the same political thought.
But they are both evil straight white Christian males.


"Sarah" <newsgroupsdon'[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Great Quote from a prejudiced article:
>
> Asked if he would jump ship to the Green Party if Democrats reject
> him, Kucinich dodged the question.
>
> "I've been asked about running as a third-party candidate, and my
> intention is to establish a second party," he said.
>
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>
> Gotta wonder if this reporter would focus on Lieberman eating kosher?
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> http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1659673,00.html
>
> Presidential candidate Kucinich in Denver
> By Joey Bunch
> Denver Post Staff Writer
>
>
> Sunday, September 28, 2003 - Dennis Kucinich, the darkest of
> dark-horse Democrats running for president, offered himself to Denver
> supporters during a day-long visit Friday as the peace candidate to
> take on the war president.
>
> The congressman from Ohio trashed President Bush on the Iraq war,
> coziness with the oil industry and, particularly, his honesty.
>
> "It's only when the very narrow interest of certain economic groups
> masquerade as national interest does war become part of the
> discussion," Kucinich said. "We need to begin the work to make war
> archaic."
>
> Denver political analyst Eric Sondermann called Kucinich a niche
> candidate staking out the liberal high ground "left of the left."
>
> Kucinich said he would create a Cabinet-level Department of Peace,
> fight global warming, allow gay unions, end the death penalty,
> overhaul the health care system, and punish polluters and corporate
> swindlers.
>
> The former mayor of Cleveland, who's also a vegan, got a warm but
> sparse reception at the Auraria campus, where about 150 supporters
> turned out.
>
> Of the 10 Democrats seeking the nomination, Kucinich is the only one
> so far who wants to bring home troops from Iraq immediately and cut
> military spending.
>
> "The United States made a colossal blunder in attacking Iraq,"
> Kucinich said. "Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 or al-Qaeda's role in
> 9/11, (or) the anthrax attacks in this country. Iraq did not have
> weapons of mass destruction and no ability or intention to attack this
> country.
>
> "We were wrong. ... It's time for the United States to get out of
> Iraq."
>
> He said the Bush administration should not pocket the profits of
> Iraq's oil or dole out massive contracts to corporate buddies.
>
> According to polls and pundits, Kucinich is the longest of longshots.
> He flew in on a commercial flight, landing almost an hour late at
> Denver International Airport to greet about 30 supporters in the
> terminal.
>
> He rode in a minivan, and his only obvious security was one guy with a
> gruff voice in a starched shirt.
>
> He won't last long when the campaigns heat up and the field narrows,
> Sondermann predicted.
>
> "He adds entertainment value to the field; he adds passion,"
> Sondermann said. "But the negative effect he has is that he pulls the
> Democratic Party further to the left, and I don't know that the party
> can afford that."
>
> Supporters disagree.
>
> "He's not going to back down from that progressive platform to appease
> anybody," said Patrick West, the Broomfield software engineer
> volunteering as the campaign's state manager.
>
> Asked if he would jump ship to the Green Party if Democrats reject
> him, Kucinich dodged the question.
>
> "I've been asked about running as a third-party candidate, and my
> intention is to establish a second party," he said.
>
>
> -- 
> "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose funding.
> When our missiles fail tests, we increase funding."  ---Dennis
> Kucinich
>
>