His voting record speaks volumes. He is pushing for universal health care, by endorsing (with Michael Moore and D-Michigan John Conyers) H.R. resolutin 676. He is in favor of impeachment of at least Dick. His idea of national security, is pulling our troops back to protect America. He voted against the war, and of all the candidates running, he serves my ideas best. The only thing that (that I Know of) I do not agree with him on, is the outlawing of handguns. Take a look at his home page, and look at his voting record. I think Ohio's Dennis Kucinich, is what we need in the white house today!

Dennis Kucinich IS the only one running for President that is not in the pockets of big business. Dennis is the only one that actually cares about people, this Country, and the Planet. He understands that we are all inter-connected. He is the only one that voted against the war from the beginning. Dennis Kucinich is the only one that has an actual plan to bring our Troops home and end this war. Dennis is the only one that has had meetings with NATO and other commanders, to put together a peace keeping team to move into Iraq, as we move (re-deploy) out. Dennis Kucinich is also the only one that advocates a work program in this Country--- a program to give people of this Country jobs: to rebuild the infrastructure, build new roads, schools, bridges, etc. Dennis is the only one that wants to make sure that all students get a 4-year FREE education, healthcare, start a Department of Peace and bring back the America we all loved and were proud of. Dennis Kucinich is the only person running that makes any sense. I,too, am for President Kucinich! Please wake up, America.

1st of all,

I am ashamed that our field of candidates
had NOT ONE who would stand with Kucinich
to support the impeachment of Cheney.
Apparently, there is little support in the
mainstream for the defense of the Constitution and punishing Executive branch
criminality.

And the MSM's marginalization of Gravel,
Kucinich, and even Biden is not only
extremely premature but extraordinarily
damaging to the nation HEARING ALL POSSIBLE
ALTERNATIVES to "More of the same" in
Washington.

We need to hold our leaders AND the media
to account for their actions.

Neither upheld their responsibility to the
public to examine deeply the REASONING and
JUSTIFICATION for pre-emptively attacking
Iraq.

Until we hold them both TRULY ACCOUNTABLE,
nothing will truly change for our long-term
betterment.

It is simply unethical to take funds from corporations to finance an election. How do the candidates who do so justify this? Kucinich is the only man I can honestly say has 'Presidential' ethics.

Regardless of your political alignments, I think I found something amusing, to say the least...

http://www.challengeofthesuperduperfriends.com

The Challenge Of The Super-Duper Friends!

Pretty okay Flash animation, and Karl Rove as the Joker really takes the cake.

Check it out. :p

I posted this in response to the fact that the entire Super-Duper Friends team are made up of Democrat Presidential hopefuls.

This node has degenerated into a flame war between two posters who have nothing but negative things to say about other Democrats, and the rest of the membership who only want to point out the positive qualities of their favorite candidates.

When two posters can disrupt a node all by themselves, that smells of troll-like behavior. Now can we please get back to the topic of this node: the presidential primary poll? Who will you support, and why?

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If you had read the rules you would know this.
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Kucinich folks, you are really out of your head if you think any president will be able to create a single payer healthcare system. There is no way in HELL that will get through congress at the current time. the John Edwards plan is a great plan and the fact that it introduces the government as an insurer instead of entirely dismantling the insurance system is REALISTIC! I would love a single payer system but guys, something is better than nothing, well get there eventually.

Edwards has never taken corporate money either.

He is pro labor, and will honestly address poverty domestically and internationally. He has a clear plan for getting out of iraq.

He has actually held a major office before guys! And he is winning in Iowa.

Kucinich will NOT WIN THE PRIMARY!

Edwards has similar positions on everything, but they are much more realistic. and he is electable!

I've seen Barak Obama speak and his rhetoric is great, he is very progressive in theory, But he has no political courage. He only says what you want to hear. He talks about universal healthcare, but doesnt have a plan for adminstering it, and doesnt have the balls to say how he is going to pay for it. He has raised tons of money, and you better believe its coming from PACs and wallstreet. John Edwards, on the other hand is the true progressive candidate. He has drafted a comprehensive universal healthcare plan, he is not afraid to say he is rolling back the bush tax cuts for people who make over 200k a year to pay for it. He has a definitive plan about how we are going to get out of Iraq. He has a bold energy transformation / c02 reduction plan, a new tax form, will create a new cabinet position for third world developement. Edwards has never accepted any money from PACs or special interests, all his money is grassroots. Obama has great rhetoric, but doesnt offer any concrete plans about what he is going to do. Edwards is the substantive candidate, courageous and hasnt sold out. I wouldnt mind seeing Barak on the ticket, but Edwards has to be on top. Obama can run again in 8 years anyway.

Dennis Kucinich is the ONLY candidate with a solid anti war voting record. The other senators and congressional reps have voted in favor of continuing the war until 2009 at least. I am not willing to sacrifice any more G.I.'s for this obscene profit making war for the elitists in this country. Kucinich's plan in HR1234 would have our troops out of Iraq in 3 months, it would also end Halliburton's exploitation of the Iraqi people and stop the U.S. hired mercenary force Blackwater from committing war crimes and torturing Iraqis. Dennis Kucinich also has a plan for a real universal health CARE(not insurance) system - single payer not for profit which would stop insurance adjusters from making medical decisions on whether or not physician ordered medical treatment plans are acceptable. Dennis Kucinich also stands up for working people, he would withdraw from NAFTA and CAFTA, free trade agreements which benefit the corporate robber barons and destroy the middle class by exporting good paying jobs to third world countries where workers can be exploited, intimidated, or murdered by union busting goon squads. Dennis Kucinich is clean, he takes no corporate money, that is why corporate media paint him as having no chance, they can't buy him off. He is a candidate of and for the people. I have seen Obama speak twice here in Las Vegas, he wowed me the first time I heard him, but he was speaking about his history and his vision, nothing solid on issues. The second time I saw him was at the SEIU Presidential Candidate Forum on Health Care at UNLV. I was greatly disappointed as he had no health care plan and I thought it was a poor decision of a presidential candidate to speak at a forum full of union health care workers and not have a plan to discuss when that was the subject matter of the forum. I beleive Obama needs one more term in the Senate to gather a voting record before I could make a decision to support him. I saw all the candidates except Biden at this forum. Edwards still has his vote on the war as baggage and as a veteran and step father of an active duty soldier I don't accept apologies for not doing the work to see if the information provided by the Bush/Cheney cabal was true. When committing our young servicemembers to war, do the damn work. I was not impressed with his health care plan as the insurance companies are still running the show. Clinton was good at working the audience but as much as I would like to support a woman presidential candidate, Clinton is not the one, she is too hawkish and would keep up to 50,000 troops in Iraq for an unspecified time. She said the right things about health insurance, but failed to go all the way and call for a single payer health care system. This brings me back to Kucinich, if you want to see his plans spelled out in detail go to his web page kucinich.us and see real well thought workable plans for peace and health care, ending the repression of civil rights, and dealing fairly with working family issues. He is a man of peace, of vision, and incorruptable. Do not buy into the corporate media's spin that he is not electable, when progressive people hear his message they agree, they just don't follow his words of wisdom "If you want peace, vote for peace". It is up to the grassroots Kucinich supporters to spread that message far and wide since he will never compete with the corporate campaign contributions flowing to the Edwards, Obama, and Clinton camps. Dave Peter Core Kucinich Nevada Veterans for Peace Las Vegas Out of Iraq Coalitio Nevada Workers Against the War SEIU Local 1107

We need a true peace candidate to end this war and that candidate is no one other than Dennis Kucinich. Nobody but Dennis in 2008. My Dennis Kucinich support blog: http://putpeaceinthewhitehousein2008.blogspot.com/

Edwards' firm stance on poverty and inequality is exactly why I support his presidency
campaign. He is someone who understands that plight of the world population and American citizens who live in poverty. The poverty in America alone is astounding, but when viewed in a global perspective, something really needs to be done. Our leaders need to support the UN Millennium Development Goals to end poverty, and I think that only Edwards will try to and I commend him for it.

Imagine how different this world would be without poverty. Would we be fighting a war on terror? Would there be so many instances of genocide? Would people all over the world continue to live on less than $1 a day? On the Borgen Project Website, it states that it costs $19 billion annually to relieve starvation and malnutrition, which is peanuts considering our $522 billion military budget this year. I really hope Edwards will make a difference because he seems the most sincere out of all of the candidates in both parties.

Whenever I've seen him in an interview he tells us what his plans would be for the presidency. He talks about his plans for health care and getting out of Iraq in great detail; he is easily understood when he speaks and one can get his ideas by listening to him. I was one of the original letter writers several years ago to get Wes Clark to run for President. I still think he'd be a great one. Since then we have found out there may be things to consider that we never thought about before when voting for a President of the U.S. Wes Clark found out that young people didn't completely understand him as he explained an issue because his sentences where too long and complicated. When John Kerry got involved he was soon thought of as an elitist. Walking around in a hunting jacket just didn't compliment him and it looked fake. I have been waiting for this 2008 election for so long and thought I'd be voting for Hillary. John Edwards is definitely in my thoughts now because he speaks in a straight forward manner. I also like Barack Obama for the same reason but his experience is lacking. The Obama people have called me a couple of times and said I should consider very hard voting for the "right" person. One thing is for sure, that is the next President will have to be concerned more about the people of OUR country and not the corporations. The people have to come first. The cronies will have to go. The secret underground Karl Rove computer e-mail system will have to go. The thirty years of Bush family involvment in our government has to go. Of course we also need a president who will not leave our military in a foreign country at war forever, but will keep up on building our military defense submarines for example. Wearing out the military people by sending them to a country over and over again is ridiculous anyway. We need better military strategy. We need competency back in the White House. We need to think about who fits that bill and is an honest person. The future President will also have to be more open minded to ideas and surround himself with good professional people regardless of Democrats or Republican affiliation.

Hey, that is my Vanity license plate IMPEACH An alternative spelling of which most won't realize is wrong is IMPEECH Some other suggestions. BUSHOUT, OUTBUSH (oops do we really want to associate this monster with our gay friends?, NCHENEY (some will see it as NOCHENEY in states like mine where only 7 characters are allowed. It makes the point. A little cleverishness and we can have hundred of signs like these running around the country. PS I am in MD

I hope everyone soon realizes that Hillary cannot win the general election. She is too polarizing...and hated by far too many people, whether it is deserved or not.

Our BEST hope is for Al Gore to decide to run, and then a combination of Gore-Edwards or Gore-Obama.
Without Gore in the mix...it HAS to be Edwards-Obama, also a kick-ass ticket.

Anyone else...and you are all fooling yourselves. We MUST grab this chance and failing is NOT an option we can afford.

Bunky writes:
"I'm not sure what a centrist is and I don't know what the DLC is."
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A centrist is someone who can't stand conflict, and believes every democratic contradiction can best be schmoozed over and fixed up in the back room by the elite. Neo-centrists -- former "liberals" scared out of their scant convictions by the Patriot Actors, want at least to hang out with, if not to join, rich people -- to whom the neo-centrists (wrongly) believe they will endear themselves by adopting the elitist social and political attitudes OF the rich.

"DLC" (the Democratic Leadership Council, which followed the now-fascist Republican Party right-ward toward militarism and monarchy) might as well stand for Democrats Lost to Centrism.

On the other side from the centrists are the democrats. Some say the democrats are "egalitarian". If only because the democrats out-number the "centrists" by about 50-to-1, this is the side to be on when push comes to shove, as it may at any moment . . . even before the "election".//

The trouble with Instant Run-off voting is that a person might wind up ranking people for whom he or she wouldn't vote -- Clinton and Biden, Dodd and Gravel. It seems to me that how the Democratic wing prevails over the right-lite Clintonesque candidates is to vote for John Edwards in the primaries, then -- if necessary, as it could be -- WRITE IN John Edwards for President, and Barack Obama for Vice President (because he IS black, and because Jesse Jackson endorsed him). I did also rank Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson, who could have places in the Edwards-Obama cabinet. If it's each-against-all, Clinton wins the nomination, loses the election. We can elect Edwards-Obama, and back the country off of corporate fascism, if we all go in the same direction. It's VERY important: I don't know whether anyone who reads this knows any actual POOR people, but there's a depression on: bread costs $4 a loaf, and there are thousands of Viet Nam vets living in the streets, waiting for the Bush casualties to join them . . .

You are wrong - it is money that usually wins.
This is entire too early on in the race to become a Presidential candidate and is disgusting.
I will wait until I decide who is the most likely to win against the GOP gang. Whom ever that may be this side of Guiliani who got lucky with 9/11 or would have been political dust, and the schmuck McCain who had some promise before he put his lips on Bush and every extreme religious group he could.

A Nation that elected the cretin G.W. Bush, the slimy bastard Chaney and their marionette master Rove, not once but twice seems not too likely to go for a woman, much less a man that is not white.
Art Wegweiser, Edinboro, PA

He's smart waiting it out till we get tired of the rest of them....It is owed to him!...Bush stole it!   ..I think we will inevitably see a Gore/Clinton ticket

Why should we nominate one of our best Senators and maybe lose the Senate when we have Edwards, Richardson, and Gore?

I love to read us, because it inspires me. I can't stay on the computer long anymore, so I don't see our site much. But hear me out, if you can about who we want to elect. I said this in '04 - it doesn't matter who you want for potus, corporations own the voting process. And in '06 I said, "We will be thrown a crumb to prove that the election process works!" And I stand by that. (I know this is tad off subject, but by the way, impeachment doesn't mean, as Biden has said "If we impeach, we end up with Cheney." This here is a large and painful cabal. There are many broken rules, and the voting process under these guys' watch is only one in the package.) But here's where I'm going: those people who throw money at the politicians now direct the voting process. Our voting process is now, well, privatized. Like everything else. Until people get hep and start to bitch about this, we'll keep hearing about these eerie photo-finish election results. We never did get satisfaction in Ohio - Sarasota appears to be underground. And if you are like me, and can't hit the internet, truth has flat gone underground in the mainstream. I love all of our Dem candidates - every last one of them. I believe any of them would be fabulous, frankly. And I think if Al Gore stepped out at the right time - it could overcome even the criminal voting machines and vote counting scams and voter suppression that is now locked in place. And now, my lovely compatriots, I will crawl back in my cave to read the alternative press.....you are all wonderful and it's good to see you again fighting the good fight. -S

the only nominees that can win in 2008 for the Democrats and we desperately need to take the White House back after our big wins in 2006. #1 in my opinion Al Gore #2 Bill Richardson (because he is a credible governor) #3 Wesley Clark (because he will rebuild the Democratic Party on foreign policy and constantly has been against what George W Bush has did to our veterans in the military calling them "unpatriotic" if they dont support the President.) I think Clark, Richardson, or Gore are the only two in that order respectively backwards is probably the top three Democrats that can win the White House for us against the Repuglicans in 2008. Otherwise, You will see a Repug in the White House for four more years of this worthless squabble and four more years of a war. Al Gore was against this illegal war from the beginning. But the other two bring demographics that could appeal to an electorate. I think Clark for example for President would rebuild our image on national security and defense, and since scaring half of the country on those issues is all the Repugs have left, They will be in the minority for a generation.

The only thing we have to fear, is George W Bush and Richard B "Dick" Cheney and the RIGHTWING CONSERVATIVE BIASED REPUBLICAN MEDIA

I would cast my vote only for Al Gore, he is the most capable person to be our president, his labor has earned him the acknowledgement of the whole world. and if the Democratic party fails to acknowledge this, I may resign and go Green.

hey, we elected a bunch of conservative democrats and where the hell are they? if they don't show up then i'm voting republican next time. i hate spinless gnomes sucking off the american folks for years on end just to fill their pockets with favors from big and little companies.

And if the right birds swoop down from the sky, Al Gore will realize his calling is to the presidency by fall 2007 and return for us, his grassroots, that we know he cares about and should return with all good reason to return. Al Gore I could almost say will have the support at the top of the ticket no matter who his number 2 is. And he should have been on this list.

The only thing we have to fear, is George W Bush and Richard B "Dick" Cheney and the RIGHTWING CONSERVATIVE BIASED REPUBLICAN MEDIA