This deja vu is totally unnecessary

One should never report about the constant depression one feels about the campaign process in this country if you truly want to represent what the Kucinich camp is like. Because, as you will see in the next posting, which is from a Kucinich not often heard from, Elizabeth is not a negative person and her thoughts are forever on the positive. However, not being of that kind of inner strength, I am using this one blog to voice the kind of inner struggle that has gone on in watching the campaign from the vantage point of New Hampshire to the return to my home base in New York City.
First I have to say that it felt at all times, to this blogger, that the campaign had to fight too many battles all on its own with very little support from the powers that be, in fact with no support from the powers that be. And that is a discussion to be held elsewhere. But the people who came out of their way to come to Manchester to help Dennis and to lend their time and talent to the campaign, were pretty much a very enthusiastic bunch of dedicated people who look at him and see the way the country could be, should be and must be in order to open up the clogged and swollen arteries of injustice and poverty and cruelty we as a nation are paticipating in.
Then this morning my partner, Suzanne, and I went out for breakfast at our local diner and as I often do, I picked up the local paper, The Queens Chronicle, because I was interested in the front page story on Foreclosures. But as we broke apart the paper, she took one part and I took another, an article about the primaries and Super Tuesday landed in my lap. I read the article, rather I skimmed the article and there at the very end of the article, "Southeast Queens to Obama: Character Should Trump Race" was the following:
Volney Cain, a clerk at the J & S Variety Store on Sutphin Boulevard, said Obama's race doesn't matter if his desire to be president doesn't come from a "genuine place." Cain said the ideal presidential candidate would have to be able to strike a balance, as with most people, between conservative and liberal ideas, and he couldn't find any of the potential nominees he felt did so. The candidate he is most impressed with so far? Dennis Kucinich.
There buried at the end of this article is the kind of speaking out of the hearts of the followers of Dennis that I also discovered when I was in Manchester. It is easy to be so discouraged that you cannot take the number of assaults this campaign has to weather from the refusal of ABC News last Saturday to allow Dennis to join the debate to this coming one on NBC and the primary race in Texas asking for a loyalty oath that Dennis would not give to the large field of primary contenders in Cleveland gunning for his Congressional seat as well. It feels enormous and frustrating and like some huge sysiphean struggle that comes at us all who care about what this candidate has thought through and for which we know he will fight for to watch these battles mount and distract from the real work that needs to be done.
However, there is a faith in the system, or rather, in the constitution, that allows Dennis to continue to fight and to forge ahead and as we shall see in the coming weeks, this will lead us all somewhere we cannot predict.
There really is Strength through Peace.