Finally, politics with soul (opinion)

[AnAmerican]

"OK, I admit it. I haven’t been very politically active lately. (By “lately,” I mean since walking in the memorial march when Martin Luther King, Jr. died.) I’ve been busy. Raising kids. And husbands. Pursuing a career. But mostly, I’ve simply found politics depressing. And after the last presidential election I thought I was in the twilight zone of a third-world nation.

But in February 2003, there was a shift, a light at the end of the tunnel. That was when Dennis Kucinich began his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president.

I had first heard about Dennis in June 2002 when my daughter Angelica, 24, called me from Dubrovnik, Croatia, where she was attending a peace conference.

“Mom!” she said excitedly, “I just met this totally cool Congressman. I was the representative sent by the youth division to have dinner with him. He is a Democrat from Ohio, and he gave this awesome speech at the conference! He’s into peace and stuff, you know, Mom, like back in the 60’s . . . you’d love it . . .”

That’s how I first heard about Dennis J. Kucinich."


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