Kucinich captures late-night spotlight in Denver bar

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10317907



Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) made an impromptu stop at a Denver rockabilly bar on Tuesday night and stole some thunder from the "Russian King of Rock and Roll."

Kucinich, who earlier Tuesday gave a speech to convention-goers at the Pepsi Center, spoke to about 300 people in a packed upstairs pool room at the Skylark Lounge on South Broadway.

"There's something about being out West where we can expand our horizons," Kucinich said.

The congressman and former presidential candidate took questions from the crowd and spoke for more than an hour. He called for the creation of a Department of Peace and what he called a "9/10 Forum."

"9/11 has become such a powerful narrative, that many of us can't remember that before 9/11 we weren't living in fear," Kucinich said.

Kucinich got his loudest applause early, when he told the crowd, "This group of neo-cons wants another four-year term. But in my opinion, their term should be 10 to 20 years."

Denis Mazhukov, the self-coined "Russian King of Rock and Roll," a piano-playing Jerry Lee Lewis impersonator, played to about 20 people downstairs.

[mike_c]

1. THAT is the democrat I want for my country's president....

Change you can believe in? Yeah, have faith. Me, I want a democrat who speaks truth to power EVERY TIME HE OPENS HIS MOUTH!

Go Dennis!

[MuseRider]

3. Me too.

Hope and faith do not cut it, I want actions that match words of courage.

[mikelgb]

2. Go Dennis Go!