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[RoccoR5955]

127. I believe that you should look at Kucinich a bit closer.

As far as administrative duties, he was the youngest mayor of a major city, Cleveland, where he successfully saved the city almost $200 million, while facing the wrath of the local press. He was also threatened by the mob, but stood by his convictions. After he was mayor, he was pretty much broke, so he knows what that's like. I think it's key in these times.
He co-sponsored a bill that would have given us all universal healthcare, not the commercialized garbage we are being fed. Yes even Kucinich caved, and gave in on the bill, because there was some good to come out of it. He is one of only a few who voted against the Patriot Act, which effectively takes away Constitutional rights. He proposed Articles of Impeachment against a president who clearly operated against the law.
There are other things that prove my point, just read his wikipedia page for starters.

Yes, Kucinich is considered an extreme Liberal, but this country has gone too far to the right for my taste. As far as I'm concerned, Kucinich is a centrist, who stands for the people, and not so much for the corporations. A true extreme left wing Liberal would call for the State takeover of many industries. Face it, if the State was in charge of oil production, for instance, the price of gasoline would be regulated, and not speculated upon, thus raising its price. More people would have jobs as production would not be held back in times when it was needed the most.

Yes Obama is running the country, but I am afraid he is far too inexperienced. He tends to show his hand, and "bargain" down from there. He should be bargaining up. When he shows his hand, the other side has time to formulate opinions which they use to divide the public, and get out their corporate message. These days they even have unlimited corporate money to put out their propaganda.

As far as your personal attack of me as a "privileged white hipster cynic," I'm afraid you are only correct on one count. I am, in fact white by birth, but mulit-cultural by osmosis. I was born in Brooklyn, NY, and spent the formative years of my life in the projects. I know what it's like to be broke, and be a minority in the community. I am more a bookworm than a hipster. Call me a techno-nerd, because since I was a kid, I was fascinated by electronics, so I often scrounged the neighborhood for parts to build things. I built radios for several of us. I was the kid in the building who would come and adjust your TV, and tell you what tubes needed to be looked at to get things better.

It so happens that I fell into my current job. After being fed up being a strap-hanger on the subway, I decided to move "upstate" about 75 miles. The job that was "waiting" for me was a farce. I was broke for quite some time, worked many jobs, and finally got a Civil Service job. As circumstances should have it, I was still a tinkerer at heart, but this was the mid-80s, and the big thing was computers. I was given an old used one by a friend, and that was it. I got a modem, and started to get involved with the BBS community. I helped run a BBS, learning about and helping people with computer issues. So when a position opened up in the IS department for a support person, I was asked and jumped on it. That was about 20 or so years ago. I have spent a lot of time learning this stuff to be at the level I am now. As a Civil Servant for County government, they don't have the resources to provide training for folks, so I have had to learn all this stuff on my own, so I find that it is false to call me privileged in any way. The only thing that I am thankful is for my curiosity.
I forgot to say that I have been active in "Liberal" causes since the days of Nam. I organized rallies in Jr. High school. I helped start the group that saw to it that the Shoreham nuclear plant never opened. I worked to help get PCBs dredged from the Hudson River. I have marched in rallies against the Iran-Contra debacle. I have rallied against the current wars as well. I learn the issues, keep up with them, and act accordingly, not the way that the corporate media wants us to act, so I am no hipster.

So I believe that it would be good, if instead of stereotyping people, and liberal ideas that might change this country for the better, you look more at who is really running the country. It's not Obama.