[Sosfbay-discuss] Dennis Kucinich

[Duende]

I'm sorry I missed this. I was cleaning up my room and came across  
the flyer but the time was 3:30PM (explicative deleted).  A producer  
friend of mine was Dennis's more or less official videographer when  
he came into the bay area last election cycle. I either assisted her  
when he came or covered him by myself. I had gotten to see Dennis up  
close in all kinds of circumstances and went from a "talk is cheap my  
little new age sounding friend" to a real believer in his  
authenticity as a human being. There are few people on this planet  
that have the respect I have for him (Tian was another one but he's  
been eaten regardless of what those forged emails say :-)

I've never heard him put down another person but with out a doubt he  
would point out practices that didn't benefit the greater whole and  
offer alternatives. He has always kept his focus on what he is for.  
Yes he's small and doesn't have the 5 second sound bite persona and  
has a gnats ass chance in hell of winning an election with the  
national mentality the ways it's been in the past but there are no  
other viable choices at this juncture. I'd love to see him and  
Cynthia McKinney run together. I'd have no problem if the Greens  
Supported him at this point.

I lost my trust for Gore when he was in office. The Inconvenient  
truth while welcome doesn;t address US imperialism and neither do I  
believe will Gore, by word or by practice.

Peace

Duende



On Apr 1, 2007, at 12:29 AM, Fred Duperrault wrote:

> I met and heard Dennis Kucinich and his wife  talk today at a Palo  
> Alto
> fund raiser.  He's taking on the whole Democratic Party with his Green
> like platform: No funds for advancing the war;  "Single Payer Health
> Care" ;  IRV;  No Attack on Iran;  Honor the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
> Treaty and rid the world of all nuclear bombs;  Reparations for the
> destruction of Iran, but not by contracting American corporations;
> Returning control of Iraq's oil to Iraq; Organizing  multinational
> assistance for Iran by replacing American with UN elements if  
> requested
> by Iraq; and Possibly calling for impeachment at a strategic time.
>
> Also heard Chris Hedges, author of "American Fascists: the Christian
> Right and War On America," describe how the Christian Right
> fundamentalist movement, with the cooperation of many allies in all
> three branches of government and the corporate world, is gaining  
> ground
> toward its desire to make the United States a theocratic, fascist
> nation.  He really berated the U.S. two party system and placed the
> blame for Bush's presence in the White House strictly on the  
> Democrats.
> His defense of  Nader was very strong.  He too, sounded much like a
> Green or a Socialist.
>
> The approximately 200  people who attended, applauded him vigorously.
> There were about 25 people in line to buy his book.
>
> Fred D.
>
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