Dennis Wins a Bit of Good News for Today

Here is some good news and some weird news too. The weird news first. The campaign asked all of us to call NBC and the DNC in order to complain that Dennis was not included in the debate in Nevada on NBC. So today a judge rules that Dennis is entitled to be in the debate and that if they don't include him they cannot have the debate.
I had called the DNC, told them I was a member of the Democratic Party and was working for Kucinich and wanted to know why they didn't let him debate. I called to speak to Karen Finney who is the press person for the DNC and while I called her because I knew her, I also thought we could have a conversation about this.
However, no conversation was possible. She claimed that my number was not clearly stated on her voicemail but of course I doubt that. She also contended that the DNC did not have anything to say about the debate, it was up to the network and they were entitled to decide who could debate.
Oh really? Is this how the Democratic Party represents its members? Is this the kind of party we want to represent us? Well, I don't think it is the party that makes these choices, I think it is the people in charge of the party right now and for one thing, her comment seems to be not the whole truth. According to the press reports about the debate, the DNC is a partner in this debate and should be defending the decision of the network to have invited Dennis who met the criteria for the invite and then they decided to disinvite him.
Where is the party at that they have no concern for its members or for the ways in which these decisions are made? I question not just the ways in which the party has become corrupted, yes corrupted by their own needs but also not a very good participant in the democratic process itself.
If this is what has become of Howard Dean, that he is now just this little dictator sitting up in DC with an agenda of his own that will exclude members of the party based on some set of criteria that are of his own making, then it is time for the party to ask for him to step down and to take his apparatchiks with him.
Yes, I am outraged. I am outraged because there is no sense of either fairness or commitment to the party in this kind of exchange between a member of the DNC who is a paid worker of the party and one of the party faithful, i.e., Dennis Kucinich.
The other piece of good news is that the recount in New Hampshire will go ahead and not for the reasons of Dennis trying to win but for the reason that there is a discrepancy and that discrepancy has to be addressed. It doesn't matter to Dennis that no one else is willing to address the issue of the veracity of the counts done by these machines but it does to those who want a fair election in November and once again Dennis is standing up for all of us when everyone else is just concerned with their own little slice of the pie and their own moment in the spotlight and not much concerned with the issues that they are sworn to uphold.
God you got to love them or you are going to find yourself going nuts.
There is Strength through Peace and thank God that Dennis leads the way.