I am back in the Granite State where there is snow and lots of people, lots more people than when i was here in November covering Dennis when the other candidates bussed in and bussed out. Dennis has been here pretty consistently since then.
The streets in Manchester are filled with candidate signs, there are people all over the place with buttons on their chests, placards on their cars, dazed glances on their faces and lots of jolliness among us all. It is like being at a carnival with the stakes being a lot higher than guessing the weight of the fat woman.
Lots of work going on in the Kucinich headquarters where more and more people show up who are either sick or injured in some way but so eager to work. Then there just is the horde of devoted kids (to me, they are kids) who seem to work like there is no tomorrow. Actually there is a big tomorrow coming up and they know it and are geared up to get the signs out, to talk to people and get them to vote for Dennis and to find their efforts so focused is a very good sign.
Dennis on Bill Moyers last night was good and filled with all the most incisive information he has been putting out there for Americans to pay attention to during his long campaign. Bill Moyers was a bit stingy when it came to giving him time, after remarking about how little time he gets during the debates. However, Kucinich kept the juices flowing and listed every one of the points he knows is important to all of us.
Here is the list of them, in my ordering:
1. Impeaching the president and vice president for taking us into an illegal war.
2. Getting all Americans health insurance based on a universal, single-payer system that will end the monopoly by the insurance companies.
3. Ending the war in Iraq and bringing the troops home.
4. A free education for everyone beginning with pre-K through four years of college.
5. An end of NAFTA, the WTO.
6. A return of the health to the planet.
7. Fair wages and treatment of all workers.
While this list may seem like just a laundry list and/or the most obvious things that should happen for this country, no other candidate is getting to this level of specificity.
Listen to them all, they sound like the same side of the record. As he said to Bill Moyers last night, he should be included in all the debates if for no other reason than there is no one else countering what the other candidates are putting forth.
Strength through Peace.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
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