Sunday, January 6, 2008

The time is running out

And we need everyone's help to get the word out about what Dennis Kucinich's campaign stands for. I have been plugging away and from the comments I am receiving (thanks to John and Brendan in particular), the word is getting out. More and more people are asking for the URL for this blogspot and we are looking at the moment of reckoning here in New Hampshire. Of course, this is not the end of things no matter what happens. But considering the number of undecideds still being polled in this state, it is a big question that the mainstream media won't acknowledge. They want you to know certain things and not other things.
Just as they were adamant to frame the questions that the candidates would have to answer last night, such as the way they framed the discussion about health care. Each and every one of those four people kept promising to change things. Change is now the new debased word that needs to be forgotten and ultimately restored when the meaning of it has been redeemed.
You shall know them by the real change they make. Just please tell me what kind of real change they are advocating? A little bit of disguised pandering to the health insurance industry never hurts a candidate who takes money from them for her campaign, Hillary.
Just like you can rail about corporate greed and not ever taking one penny from the health insurance companies, but there is obviously nothing wrong about taking money from the larger hedge fund managers, John Edwards.
Then my last word on this kind of duplicity is to say, if we really want to see change, if we really want to make a change in how our government governs us and relates to the world, then we have to return to the real agenda that a true Democrat like Dennis puts forth. Ask and demand an end to this illegal war and bring to justice the criminals who lied and cheated in order to send innocent people to their deaths. Demand that our health care system be fair and equitable and not the privilege of those who can afford it. And not run by people whose sole job is to deny us the coverage we pay for.
This is just the beginning of the fight and it won't be over until we are able to turn the ship of state around. We can do it and we must do it in order to change for real the terms under which the government governs us.
Please, please, lend a hand and get the ship moving in this new direction, back to the principles that helped to give it birth. We can all do it if we just start thinking that thought and seeing where it leads us to act, to help and to serve the common good.
There really is strength through peace.

1 comment:

Brendan O'Connor said...

Hear, hear Deborah, encouraging comments, i think the analogy of turning a whole ship around is a good one.

I would encourage any of your readers to check out two posts i did of recent on Dennis, the first on why ABC's exclusion of him was baseless and wrong (http://election2008options.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-clintons-calls-to-include-all-in.html) and the second on Dennis' prescient, piece by piece debunking of the Administration's so-called evidence for war in his 2002 speech in the House: http://election2008options.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-clintons-calls-to-include-all-in.html

Cheers.