I have a special e-mail address set up at which I receive the e-mails the Dem campaigns send to their Internet audiences, and I noticed a notable bit from the Kucinich campaign today.
Imagine
Imagine the current presidential campaign without candidate Kucinich.
Some might find it pretty depressing. With Howard Dean saying that
universal health coverage is “tilting at windmills.” With Dick
Gephardt and others still supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq.Thanks to Kucinich, the Democratic debate is broadening. Everywhere he
goes, we see mainstream media headlines like these from recent days:
“Kucinich: Less Soldiers, More Schools”
“Kucinich Campaigns for Universal Health Care”
“Kucinich Says Blackout a Symptom of Problems Caused by Deregulation”
I don’t remember those headlines, or much of anything about Kucinich really, but it is literally a campaign for a social-democrat — if not almost outright socialist — state. He knows he cannot win, so he is not running to the left in hopes thereof. Is he running to pull the party to the Left where he resides? He couldn’t be. Before he began this quixotiic campaign, he stood against partial birth abortions (he skipped the House vote rather than break ranks with the House Dem caucus in 2002) and homosexual marriages. Maybe he likes being Dennis Kucinich and believes everyone else should also be thrilled with that fact.
I will give him this much: both his father and my maternal grandfather were born in Croatia. For what that’s worth.
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