What about Dennis Kucinich is not presidential? I hear people saying that, but it makes no sense to me. He's the only one that wants to get the profit completely out of our health care system, the way every other industrialized country has. He's been in politics for over 35 years and has a proven record of standing up to privatization and opposing the war in Iraq. I think it's great that the candidates now realize it was a bad idea to invade another country on nothing but smoke and mirrors, but I'll stick with the guy who got it right the first time, and stood up against continuing the occupation in every vote.
Anyone who objects to him based on his looks is too shallow for me to consider. If I cared about looks, I'd be campaigning for Edwards. I want a president who knows what it means to be poor, who supports workers' right to organize , who knows that bombs never solved a problem and never will, and who thinks rich people should pay more taxes than the middle class. Kucinich is for free college education - I haven't heard any other candidate even broach the subject, except Hillary saying the loans will be more affordable. I'd rather they be non-existent. We're behind every other Western country in terms of education - I want every American kid that can qualify to get into college to be able to go. Yes, it would take the cooperation of Congress, but first it takes someone to put forth the idea and have a plan to do it. Dennis has.
Dennis is also the only candidate talking about impeachment. I don't care if Bush only has a few months left. I don't care how much time it would take, or whether it's politically savvy. The Bush Administration has committed crime after crime with complete impunity and I want it stopped. I want action taken because it's the right thing to do. When did we stop doing things because they were politically inconvenient? They said the same thing about civil rights and women's suffrage, too. We fought for those because it was the right thing to do. The right thing to do when a (n unelected) criminal violates the Constitution, our laws, international law and our treaties is to impeach him. The Constitution doesn't say he may be removed - it says he "shall be" removed if he commits crimes. That's pretty clear language.
Which corporations? Any corporation that tries to influence an election. The fact that we allow corporations to fund candidates is obscene. What are we going to do next, let them vote? We just let a couple of networks exclude viable candidates from presidential debates. That's scary stuff. A corporation just let a little girl die from a treatable illness, and she's only one of 18,000 that will die this year for no other reason than that they don't have health coverage. I don't have to tell you that that's six 9/11's every year that wouldn't take place in any other industrialized nation.
We're living in a state of corporate fascism. That's not rhetoric, it's a fact. We've got a private corporation in charge of our monetary system. We're in so much debt to China that they could literally destroy our economy if they wanted to. More people lost their homes last year than any other time in our history. Our jobs are flying off to other countries. Dennis will end NAFTA and get us out of the WTO and I think that's exactly where we need to start to get our economy back on track.
Dennis also has empathy for undocumented workers, and he won't treat them like they have no right to be here. Mexicans are native to the Americas - they have more right here than anyone whose family came in through Ellis Island. If they need to come here and work, we should make it easier for them - instead we're locking entire families up in detention camps. Halliburton just got a contract to build more detention centers on American soil. Who do you think is going to inhabit those centers? It won't just be immigrants, it will be activists they decide to tag as terrorists. Congress is in the process of making it possible.
People have to wake up. Fascism isn't coming, it's here. They've started rounding up undocumented workers and their families - the only question is who the next targeted group will be.
What about Dennis Kucinich is not presidential? I hear people saying that, but it makes no sense to me. He's the only one that wants to get the profit completely out of our health care system, the way every other industrialized country has. He's been in politics for over 35 years and has a proven record of standing up to privatization and opposing the war in Iraq. I think it's great that the candidates now realize it was a bad idea to invade another country on nothing but smoke and mirrors, but I'll stick with the guy who got it right the first time, and stood up against continuing the occupation in every vote.
Anyone who objects to him based on his looks is too shallow for me to consider. If I cared about looks, I'd be campaigning for Edwards. I want a president who knows what it means to be poor, who supports workers' right to organize , who knows that bombs never solved a problem and never will, and who thinks rich people should pay more taxes than the middle class. Kucinich is for free college education - I haven't heard any other candidate even broach the subject, except Hillary saying the loans will be more affordable. I'd rather they be non-existent. We're behind every other Western country in terms of education - I want every American kid that can qualify to get into college to be able to go. Yes, it would take the cooperation of Congress, but first it takes someone to put forth the idea and have a plan to do it. Dennis has.
Dennis is also the only candidate talking about impeachment. I don't care if Bush only has a few months left. I don't care how much time it would take, or whether it's politically savvy. The Bush Administration has committed crime after crime with complete impunity and I want it stopped. I want action taken because it's the right thing to do. When did we stop doing things because they were politically inconvenient? They said the same thing about civil rights and women's suffrage, too. We fought for those because it was the right thing to do. The right thing to do when a (n unelected) criminal violates the Constitution, our laws, international law and our treaties is to impeach him. The Constitution doesn't say he may be removed - it says he "shall be" removed if he commits crimes. That's pretty clear language.
Which corporations? Any corporation that tries to influence an election. The fact that we allow corporations to fund candidates is obscene. What are we going to do next, let them vote? We just let a couple of networks exclude viable candidates from presidential debates. That's scary stuff. A corporation just let a little girl die from a treatable illness, and she's only one of 18,000 that will die this year for no other reason than that they don't have health coverage. I don't have to tell you that that's six 9/11's every year that wouldn't take place in any other industrialized nation.
We're living in a state of corporate fascism. That's not rhetoric, it's a fact. We've got a private corporation in charge of our monetary system. We're in so much debt to China that they could literally destroy our economy if they wanted to. More people lost their homes last year than any other time in our history. Our jobs are flying off to other countries. Dennis will end NAFTA and get us out of the WTO and I think that's exactly where we need to start to get our economy back on track.
Dennis also has empathy for undocumented workers, and he won't treat them like they have no right to be here. Mexicans are native to the Americas - they have more right here than anyone whose family came in through Ellis Island. If they need to come here and work, we should make it easier for them - instead we're locking entire families up in detention camps. Halliburton just got a contract to build more detention centers on American soil. Who do you think is going to inhabit those centers? It won't just be immigrants, it will be activists they decide to tag as terrorists. Congress is in the process of making it possible.
People have to wake up. Fascism isn't coming, it's here. They've started rounding up undocumented workers and their families - the only question is who the next targeted group will be.
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