Power to the People: Dennis, Anyone?

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http://greenoptions.com/2007/09/12/dennis_anyone

"While Kucinich appears to be a mild-mannered man, his passion for the environment is evident and very strong. When I asked him the role that clean energy would play in his administration his answer was direct – “Clean energy will play the central role in my energy plan! How will that happen? I plan to create a Works Green Administration, which will bring clean energy to America. We will have millions of wind and solar technologies that will be retrofitted onto American homes so that everyone can produce clean energy! We will create millions of new jobs not only building these wind and solar technology applications but also installing them."

Kucinich also wants NASA to have a role in developing the clean energy technologies of the future. He favors wind and solar over all other types of renewables. And he is looking towards fuel cells to power our cars in the future. Kucinich believes that all the talk by his Democratic opponents about ‘carbon taxes’ and ‘cap and trade systems’ is just tinkering around the edges. Kucinich wants real sustainability by using real clean energy.

With respect to nuclear energy, Kucinich is adamant that it must be phased out. He has followed the nuclear movement since its infancy. The Cleveland area in the 1960’s and 1970’s was heavily involved in the forefront of the marketing of nuclear energy as a viable energy source for our future. But massive cost overruns to build these plants, their safety concerns, and the inevitable issue of nuclear waste all have to be addressed. Nuclear was sold to the American people as “energy to cheap to meter – but the reality has been it’s energy that’s too expensive to use.”

Kucinich favors a ‘Global Green Deal’ which is a plan that would have the United States lead the world in the creation and production of renewable energy and we would partner with developing countries to promote renewable energy within their borders as well."

[catnhatnh]

1. I have a dream....

...suppose Al Gore endorsed Dennis Kucinich???????

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3. I love your dream! n/t

[Desertrose]

5. Thats quite a dream!

I would wish that all candidates got equal time and ....can you say campaign finance reform?


DR

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2. Very good man running in a country that isn't listening to him.

Dennis, give me your mechanism for a victory.

Where is the imagination?

I'm not picking up the heat, folks. It's not there.

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4. Yes it's sad, people listen, only 5 years too late. And he is the

lone voice among the candidates questioning the intelligence on Iran, the privatization of oil in Iraq, holding a hearing on civilian casualties in Iraq, supporting the labor unions in Iraq, visiting Lebanon as well as Israel last year etc. etc.

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6. I'm for John Edwards but feel that Kucinich has a career-long trajectory

that U.S. voters are not aware of or drawn to.

They don't understand what "public service" even is.

Most graduate from high school without a clue on geography or history or much of anything else.

Kucinich has a life-long public service careeer, and I wish he would emphasize it a LOT more in his campaign.

My vote for Edwards isn't changing until he is no longer on a ballot in front of me. But Dennis Kucinich has been on many, many ballots for a long time.

A public servant like that deserves broader support than he's getting. And Dennis himself needs to clean house and put in some much more imaginative, energized people to promote that campaign.

Why is there no Kucinich field office in Iowa? What's up with that?

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7. Nice to hear that you recognize his passion for public service. As

for Iowa I have no idea what is going on, I called and sent an email today and intend on following up shortly. I believe he is the only one really trying to change the direction of our country and wish he had the support to do it. Edwards is saying some of the things Kucinich has in the past, but Kucinich has the real vision and courage to not go along, even when it costs him personally.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1843959&mesg_id=1849767

Part of my email to the Kucinich campaign...
This is an urgent matter for the campaign to address Yesterday!

The campaign tells supporters that Dennis Kucinich was not invited to attend the AARP forum, yet the AARP has stated that an invitation was sent via registered letter in the beginning of July and the campaign never expressed any interest. Please see the posting on your own website of the email received from Ann Black of AARP Iowa Communications.

http://action.dennis4president.com/forum/posts/id_1232 /

In short, someone is not being honest about the events and who that is I am not sure. If AARP is not being forthright then the campaign needs to make available on it's website the correspondence it had with AARP.

Two major events missed in Iowa and hardly any campaign visits to this state...

Dennis may be correct on the issues but that does not automatically translate into support.

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8. The support might expand and deepen if he could find a more imaginative

mode of presentation.

He's running an old-fashioned campaign and could do so much more on the web and in other ways.

I keep scanning the political horizon for a breakthrough but none has come so far.

I catch his appearances around the country on C-Span and consider the rapt attention of his audiences.

Unlike the current president, Kucinich ANSWERS questions, and he gets a lot tougher questions from his audiences than the president gets generally from the press corps.

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10. Exactly and I surely wish he had the funds to pay for innovative

thinkers and the means to implement those ideas :(

[AuntPatsy]

9. It is a pretty sad state of affairs when men like Kucinich are considered

enelectable considering what the candidates from the repubs are pushing as what they perceive to be the best ones for such an important position, comparing them mocks our countrys intelligence in the worst light I have every beheld.

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11. Kucinich going one on one with any of the Rep candidates

would do extremely well IMO.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Having seen him in unscripted audience Q&A sessions, I know

that he's very smart, in full command of the facts, able to think on his feet, and capable of explaining his ideas in a way that's simple without being condescending.

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15. Yes and I have to laugh at the reply he might make to Romney

when Romney said during one of the debates that Saddam never let the inspectors back into the country.

[superkia]

14. As angry as Americans are with both parties and the system...

his messages would destroy any republican that ran against him. He is for the people and against the corporations and if he were the nominee with national exposure, the election would be a landslide victory for the democratic party.

There is a reason that the Democratic party isn't getting things done for the people, they aren't really trying. They just want to appease people enough to keep them quiet so they can make money and support their base...the corporations and the wealthy.

Dennis doesn't stand for that and that is the reason I support him. For some reason most people have fallen for whats being done to the country and just want to bitch about it instead of trying to change it? I don't understand?

They will elect a media candidate, the base will be overjoyed with a democrat in office, the government will continue to help corporations, institute fear in its citizens to keep the terrorism industrial complex booming, continue its attack on our rights and give us some bullshit health insurance that doesn't really do shit but continue feeding corporate profits and the American people will be happy...for a while and then start bitching again about whats happening to the country.

Sorry but I want change in our country for the better, I'm voting for Dennis Kucinich!

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18. Nice summary esp. the part about being happy for awhile, I'm

tired of being thankful for the scraps that are thrown our way only to be hungry for real change and accountability in the not too distant future.

And his explanation of his view on abortion is well stated here and may be accepted by some in the other party as well.

Dennis Kucinich on Abortion in America

"...To me this is a kind of balancing which must be done without rancor and without polarization, this issue has been used to tear this country apart. Because I understand both sides of it I think I am uniquely qualified to be able to help balance these conflicts and lead people to a place of peace about the decisions that they make."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=50778

[Richard Steele]

13. 5th rec- off to the "Greatest" page !

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16. Thank you! n/t

[RangerRK]

17. K&R

Kucinich's Global Green Deal is a brilliant way to turn our economy around and help the poor, not to mention the environment.