The murdering of the Kucinich campaign

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Jack Balkwill
Online Journal Contributing Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2886.shtml

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The Dennis Kucinich campaign was destroyed by the corporate media for trying to represent the public interest.

At the start of his campaign, corporate media did not cover Kucinich because he refused to take the bribes. The transnational investors who own corporate media, or represent its interests on corporate boards, or advertise in it for control, do not trust anyone to be president who does not take the bribes.

So at the start of our modern presidential campaigns, all of the talk is about who raised the most cash from transnational investors who don’t give a damn about this country or its people.

Next, corporate media cited the lack of campaign funding for Kucinich as the reason they did not cover him. “Hillary has more money from the nuclear mafia and Medical industrial complex than any other candidate” they recognized, “so we have to give her tens of millions of dollars of free coverage.” Same for all of the corporate CEOs; Clinton, Edwards, Obama. . . .

[IntravenousDemilo]

1. I guess that means that if progressives want to attain the presidency...

...what they must do is campaign more towards the centre so as to throw off the media and the party brass, and then once elected, spring their bold program on the public when they least expect it -- BAM BAM BAM! and no prisoners taken. Maybe Dennis should have tried that, but with his record being public, it might have been a bit difficult.

I hope this is what Edwards, whom I see as the most progressive of the three remaining candidates, is doing now, and if he goes all the way to the Oval Office, I hope he then goes all Kucinich on you and completely transforms the USA. It'll do you a world of good. I have less hope that Obama and Clinton are doing this, as they are rather more conservative than Edwards, yet I still do hope.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. That's exactly what FDR did.

Campaigned as a moderate, then did all that socialist stuff to pull the country out of the Depression.

[Djinn]

3. except that what he did

he did to prop up capitalism not to allevaite the pain of working people.

Any candidate that isn't massively thrashed in the mainstream media is acceptable to corporate America.

Any candidate acceptable to big business is not acceptable to me.

The system is busted and will never offer the choices ordinary working people need.

[Greyhound]

5. Wow, another student of history. Welcome. n/t

:kick:

[ConservativeDemocrat]

15. Judging by how they're voting...

...ordinary working people pretty clearly don't think you're their spokesman.

So what is the polling data show about your idea of getting rid of capitalism?
How popular is that? Or the idea that FDR betrayed working people by not doing so?
How well did the only rival to capitalism - communism - do in the 20th century?

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[water]

4. That would result in insta-re-election loss.

Congress wouldn't go along with it, anyways.

Not to mention the fact that Republicans would probably retake Congress in an election-backlash against a Democratic president.

[NikolaC]

7. Then Elect Progressives

to Congress on a grassroots level. The problem does not only begin with Presidential races, it also happens with the smaller races. Work hard to place more progressives in office through grassroots efforts and fund raising. That would help tremendously to make the work easier for a true progressive president. The problem is that there are too many moderate, go along to get along, repub-lite Dems in office which has been a detriment to the country over the last decade at the very least. Instead of being afraid of "electability", support a progressive for their run for Congress or Senate and, hopefully, we will be able to have a true progressive in the Oval office who will be able to start turning the country around and back in the right direction.

[IntravenousDemilo]

14. That's why it has to be done BAM BAM BAM!, like within the first 90 days.

Purge through and overturn every piece of legislation signed by the Bush administration, and forcefully (and ruthlessly) institute progressive policies like a top-down, single-pay health care system and getting the hell out of Iraq. After that, John and Jane Q Public will still have a couple of years to get used to these beneficial changes before they vote again, realize they're better off, and Bob's your uncle.

[kster]

6. The DU should have been UP IN ARMS

over this, we have allowed big media to Manipulate the 2008 election right before our very eyes, before the first vote got cast.

What do we do, we support the other candidates like nothing ever happened.

Corporate has eliminated Dennis Kucinich, the only candidate that they are threatened by, and we let it happen.

Now we get to pick from the corporate chosen candidates who are also responsible for allowing the Media to exclude Kucinich, one of our own, from six debates.

Kucinich won online poll after online poll, no wonder why the candidates and corporate media, wanted him excluded from the debates :mad:

[NikolaC]

8. The Shame

The shame of it is that he was also dismissed by many "liberal" bloggers, websites and online magazines as well. They too bought into and propagated the M$M spin about Kucinich because of the possibility of his being a spoiler to FINALLY getting a Dem in the oval office after all of these years of Bu$h hell. It did not matter if the Dem was moderate, conservative, supported some of the Bu$h Administrations worst policies and the Iraq war, as long as it was a Dem who looked good on camera and had "leadership qualities".

Kucinich was seen as "not being leadership material", "not viable", "too liberal", "a nut case". He was constantly maligned and treated as a joke, not with the respect due to a veteran member of Congress who has championed many causes that were geared towards restoring civil liberties for Americans, a universal healthcare plan and impeachment of the war criminals who have been squatting in our nation's capital for 7 hellish years. Yes, Kucinich's chances were stifled with A LOT of help sadly from ignorance on the part of some on "our side" who bought into the mainstream opinion of him. The lack of interest in many threads here about him, with the exception of the ones that mentioned his stepping out of the Democratic race for president, was also pretty sad and evidence of this IMO.

[Bunkie0913]

9. That's what I'm talking about!

It has just killed me to watch folks who are supposed to be D's dog Dennis. He is the person with the audacity to fight the established corporate strangle hold on this country. Dennis says all the right stuff and has the voting record to back it up. But instead of standing up for Dennis, we have liberals, progressive's marginalizing, trivializing and mocking. Says something for the state of our union and it ain't good.

[truedelphi]

16. i was wondering if he shouldn't have appealed to

People in Europe for help.

Those who support him in this country are so flummoxed economically that it was hard for them to even scrape together five bucks.

Maybe he should have written some letters ot the editor in European capitals and in London asking for help.

[Skittles]

19. LOOK HOW MANY DUers WENT ALONG WITH IT

America is SO FUCKED

[stimbox]

10. The author failed to mention Democratic party complicity in silencing Dennis. n/t

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

11. I think Dem leadership was more than complicit...

...Harry Reid's comments the other day in the radio interview where, when asked about Kucinich, he suggested that it was the people who had rejected DK, that he was "not of fan of Kucinich," and than he needed to return to Ohio and tend to his district, were very telling.

[stimbox]

12. True. They are going to "McKinney" him. n/t

[NikolaC]

13. Agreed

Hence the four other people vying for his seat.

[cyclezealot]

17. thanks for posting

one disappointment with Edwards. Other than the fact he was a floor leader of Lieberman's Iraq call to war ; he did not support Kucinich's right to speak. now it is his turn to face the corporate axe.

[dominicoyandor]

18. kick n/t