John Nichols got it right

Hello again on a finally fall day in New York City. I was so pleased last night to read on Common Dreams that John Nichols has understood what Dennis has been saying for a long time about the run-up to war and about war in general. There were many comments about his article, none of them about anything other than what Dennis has been saying about the war.
Many complained about how Dennis is still a member of the Democratic party. Others complained about how ran for president in 2004 and then supported Kerry when he won the nomination. Many complained that he will show up in the convention center and not be out on the picket lines during the Democratic convention this summer. I cannot speak to any of that. To me this is about as relevant an issue as what someone saw in their tea leaves this morning when they got out of bed.
What matters most is that someone in the media is beginning to see why Dennis matters and what this country needs as an antidote to the years of Republican mis-rule. It is going to take someone as iconoclastic as Dennis but who is a part of the Democratic party to fix what has been disastrously broken while at the same time lead us in a way towards healing. He is no messiah come to claim us but a perfectly human being who has loads of incredibly good ideas and wants to be of service to this country.
I urge us all to read more and look for more of the media beginning to listen to what Dennis has to say. There was a great interview with him posted up on his website the other day from a paper in Monterey. I think it is also important to urge your local papers to begin to acknowledge his presence and to write about him. You, too, can write about him and get his name out there for people to start talking about.
Life is too short for us to be worrying about the popularity of someone judged by the amount of money they have been able to raise. Ask yourself just whose money are they all playing with? What kind of a person do you want up there leading the agenda for the next 4-8 years? What will help us to regain some stability and feeling of confidence about ourselves and our own abilities to make the world a better place in which to live?
For these very abstract and not all that specific reasons, there is someone I think can do the job. For the ways in which he articulates his reasons for wanting to lead the country, go to his website.
At tne end of this long election cycle, I do hope we come out with a clearer purpose that serves more of the people who are in need of help rather than just the wealthy who seem to have found a wonderful set of accomplices for stealing the government coffers.