Reply #61: First, let me say that I've read about the Kucinich record of voting with Republicans [View All]

[suzie]

and Democrats previously. But since you seem to think that having a racist diss our first black President is such a minor matter which the high-minded Dennis Kucinich couldn't condescend to deal with, I thought that perhaps he never votes on minor things like resolutions about Teen Reading or historical dates.

But it turns out that he votes on meaningless resolutions all the time. And Kucinich-heads may want to deem it a "distraction" when the first Congressman does a shout out to the racist base, but that was a test. It was the start of a way to undermine Obama as President, to undercut him as "the black guy". Nancy Pelosi, as the first woman Speaker, seemed quite aware of what was happening, even if Kucinich-heads are unwilling to admit it.

Kucinich's actions in the Wilson resolution seemed like the sour grapes of a marginalized candidate for the Presidency who is still throwing a tantrum because just about no one wanted him as a Democratic candidate.

And how hypocritical to even bring up anti-abortion votes while lauding a man who was among the most horrific anti-abortion officials for what-30 years? Sorry, Kucinich was so desperate for the limelight of the presidential campaign that he sold his beliefs out when he overnight discovered that he was pro-choice.

Kucinich-heads can make their apologies for that sudden switch all they want, but I saw Kucinich speak in 2003--as did many other old lady Democrats like myself, who remember the days before Roe v. Wade. Kucinich is still acting like it was the 1960s when it was the thing to stand up and rail about everything.

Well, there were some of us in every room where he spoke that remember those days also, and we would have stood up and booed him. "Hey, hey, DK, how many women will you kill today?" He wouldn't have been able to mount a second vanity presidential campaign in 2008, so suddenly he became pro-choice.

In fact, Kucinich's votes in the Wilson case and his constant rants against the Democrats make me believe that he simply never moved on beyond the 60s and 70s, when women were supposed to run mimeograph machines and hand out flyers and know their place. And when it came to rights for women, the Dennis Kucinich-white males were totally uninterested. It was where the Women's Movement began.

Dennis held onto those anti-women beliefs for another 35 years. So please don't make the usual apologies for Dennis Kucinich and at the same time make a big deal about Democrats and anti-abortion politics.