Lots of people are discussing with some kinds of enjoyment what Tim Russert tried to do to Dennis the other day by asking him about the UFOs he reportedly said he saw and felt a connection to. I personally have no idea what to make of the comments as they are all out of context and I have not read the book from which the comments are being extracted. I find it is always dangerous to have one's words taken out of context but what it points to is this:
Those who are favorably inclined towards Dennis already and from the amount of material I see on the web, that number is huge, there seems to be a lot of understanding and reverence for the predicament the man is in. So in the interests of reporting on something I do know more about, let me say this and move onto the sense of this growing swell of understanding of what Dennis stands for.
But first let me say, it is fine that they pick things apart badly and it is also fine that in the midst of this two things may be going on. One is the feeling I have about who Dennis is that he may just not want to get into a brawl over something that was written by a friend and second that the media loves to take apart people who are after them and see through them.
Therefore enough has been said by me about this whole issue.
What interests me is just how the media continues to trivialize and debase a candidate who has done so much for those of us who are walking around feeling like we are the lepers in this very rich and materialistic society. Dennis' example is a lot more reassuring than what the others have to offer and for my money and the time I am spending thinking about what he has to offer, I am willing to go for broke, as it were, in terms of thinking out loud about a) how hard it is to feel like such an outsider all the time and then you find a candidate who is not truly an outsider but knows what one feels like and b) that he has the intellectual and spiritual stamina to keep at this no matter what is thrown his way is quite remarkable.
onto some facts:
1. Dennis' poll numbers are rising
2. Dennis doesn't take money from corporate interests
3. Dennis is fighting to impeach the vice president and the president
4. Dennis is in favor of a not-for-profit health care system
5. Dennis is opposed to all war
6. Dennis' idea about a department of peace means so much in terms of how he sees the conjunction of domestic policy with foreign policy
7. Dennis knows that all this chest thumping about China is a lot of grandstanding by his colleagues who for the most part have voted for every measure to give China favored nation status
Finally, if you have the time and the inclination, go to my website and read the article about Bush and Cheney's militarization being like the students from Columbine www.deborahemin.com
We have lots of wake up calls being given to us these days. We need to wake up to them and sound the alarms to all our friends and family. We may no longer have the kind of choices a true democracy needs if we don't act soon.
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Five minutes: Quite a few years ago as I was driving home from work I saw an object. It was late, an hour or two after midnight. I lived on the east end of Long Island and was passing through an unpopulated area of the Pine Barrens. Suddenly, to the north of the highway, I became aware of the object as it moved slowly to a position a few hundred feet above the trees and then seemed to hover. There were lights. I slowed to watch as it hovered there, perhaps a quarter of a mile away. Suddenly it began to move again and then took off at a high rate of speed: it flew. I could not identify the object. An unidentified flying object. Now, I am aware that the military had a base at Calverton. In hindsight, perhaps this was a Harrier jet, which I later found out were being used there for testing purposes. Perhaps the Navy was testing its own version of a Harrier or some similar plane. I'll likely never know. But I do know I saw something. Dennis Kucinich saw something. The difference between us is that he had the guts to say it. Unequivocally. In spite of the fact that he knew the question directed at him was designed to ridicule, he stood his ground and said that he saw what he saw. No spin. No qualifications. No lies. He told the truth, in spite of the fact that he knew he would be derided. That's the guy I want in the White House. Oh, and by the way: as he pointed out - or should I say Mr. Russert pointed out at Dennis' insistence - fourteen percent of the people in this country say they've seem something similar. How many, like me, were afraid to say they saw something? The question of UFOs is ultimately of little consequence to this election cycle. The question of having the integrity and, yeah, the guts to tell the truth in the face of a heavy handed personal attack may be everything. I am reminded of the old movie, Miracle On 34th Street. People just didn't know what to make of poor old Kris Kringle - not because what he said was so outrageous, but because what he said made so much damn sense nobody knew what to make of him. Well, Kucinich sounds like 365 days worth of Christmas to me, year round. Peace on Earth, good will toward everyone. Health, prosperity, all the rest...how could anyone NOT vote for this guy, if you think about it for five minutes.
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