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126. Dennis Kucinich

Is a man of great honesty and integrity who is terminally outmatched politically by practically everyone around him. I love his speeches. His legislation is laughable. I do not, therefore, consider him an exemplary Representative. I hope he accomplishes much more out of government than he did as part of it, because he accomplished nothing as part of it. "Crafting" legislation, you see, isn't a matter of writing it. It is a matter of getting other people to support it (often by rewriting it to make it acceptable to them, a process you would probably deride as 'caving'.) Mr. Obama crafted legislation quite well, shepherding several worthwhile bills into law in his very brief time in Congress. Mr. Kucinich, in contrast, annually submits a "Department of Peace" (to replace the "Department of Defense", a tactic which might be more effective if the DoD were still named the 'Department of War') bill that is little more than satire-bait and then he seems to take pride in the fact that nobody takes it seriously.

President Obama is running the country. A task that Mr. Kucinich is not capable of doing. Nor would you be, nor anyone you think would be, if you see what I'm saying. Because what you will no doubt call 'selling out', like the childish anti-authoritarian you are, is actually simply running the country. Allowing the economy to collapse because you think it is founded on evil 'corporatism' is not running the country, it is instead failing to run the country. But as a privileged white hipster cynic, you don't have to worry about that, you get to just keep spouting off and voting for incompetent idealists and insulting those of us who have a firmer grasp of the real world.