Dennis Kucinich *WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?!!!!!*

[rjones2818]

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Dennis, right the first time, again!

Go Dennis! :woohoo:
http://kucinich.us
http://integritynow.org
For those of us on the Left, Dennis is OUR Congressman!

[wundermaus]

1. Oh, Dennis... what a wonderful president you would be...

Oh, to be free and sane trapped in an insane world...

[whistle]

2. Here is the truth, Petraus is delaying and urging the nation to wait

...so an incompetent president who urged the nation to go into a war under a barrage of lies and kept the nation in that failed war on the basis of false pride and a refusal to admit he has made a mistake, no appointed a General who has been given the mission to keep the war going at least until President Bush is safely out of office so that he can save face and pass this problem and mess onto the next president.

Bush will give the stinking turd of a war most willingly to the next administration, smirking and laughing all the way the Paraguay!

[valerief]

3. He's the man that should be president, for sure. nt

[The Wielding Truth]

4. You, me, and DK.Peaceful coexistence.What are we waiting for?

:eyes:

[N4457S]

42. But If...

...you're a student of American history, you know that peaceful coexistence hasn't been America's mission for a very, very long time.

Maybe it was in the early days but not now.

This is not the United States of Northern California and Massachusetts.

I know you want it to be and others want it to be but it isn't and never will be.

Five hundred people per day move to Arizona. One thousand per day move to Florida. Both states are red and McCain is almost assured of carrying them in the Electoral College.

I grew up in the NE Ohio burbs. A good friend of mine is distantly related to Kucinich and they're all wondering what's happened to him. His own family thinks he nuts.

[Fireweed247]

48. "His own family thinks he nuts."

How long has his family thought he was nuts? Why?
Is this a recent development?

My own family thinks I'm nuts so I can relate anyway...

[JJLP1580]

53. OH really??

I grew up in Lakewood, Ohio, where Kucinich is from. I graduated from Lakewood High School. I then graduated from The Ohio State University. I've been well acquainted with Dennis Kucinich for my whole life. Let me tell you, he is a true liberal, and a great guy...but he doesn't know jack about running a government. I wonder if the Iraqi's ever got that 6 ft. tall "sorry" card that he had made for them...

He bankrupted the city of Cleveland when he was mayor, and now he's preaching about fiscal responsibility?

I want the war to end ASAP. Let's win it and bring our troops home.

Peace to all of my fellow Americans.

[navarth]

58. That's not the way I heard it.

He bankrupted Cleveland??

He was doing battle with wealthy bankers. They bankrupted it. That's what I heard. From him. Why would I believe anybody else?

[green917]

59. Time to wake up!

"Let's win it and bring our troops home."

America and the coalition of the willing have not been fighting a war in Iraq since the summer of 2003 when the President stood on an aircraft carrier in full codpiece and regalia and stated, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended and America and her allies have been victorious." We are not at war in Iraq. We are illegally occupying Iraq! Unfortunately for your premise, which I quoted above, there is NO way that you can win an occupation. You either annex the territory and control it (essentially what the "surge", read as: escalation, has failed to do) or you get the hell out! Those are the only 2 options! There is no winning!

Rep. Kucinich is absolutely spot on here! What are we waiting for indeed? I am a Operation Enduring Freedom Vet and have more than a dozen friends who have come home from the sands of Mesopotamia in flag-draped boxes. What did they die for? What has this war/occupation gained us? Even General Petraeus wont say outright that this war has made us safer because he's not really a fool (just a sycophantic lackey) and he's not willing to lie to Congress when there's the possibility that war crimes are in the offing at some point in the future. It certainly hasn't "paid for itself with Iraqi oil" as Paul Wolfowitz told us. Now we find out that Iraq is making Billions of dollars in increased oil revenue while you and I are paying for the reconstruction of their country. It certainly hasn't established a beacon of Democracy in the region that other nations can follow. Quite the contrary. Hezbollah winning in Lebanon, Hamas winning in Palestine, and Ahmadinajhad and the mullahs gaining more power every day in Iran are testament to that fact. It certainly hasn't stopped terrorism. Every poll taken states unequivocally that terrorism has done nothing but increase since our invasion and occupation.

In other words, how about you actually address the very real, very salient positions that Rep. Kucinich outlines here rather than spouting a right-wing talking point and completely dismissing what this man has to say? If he's such a bad politician and bankrupted Cleveland when he was Mayor, why do they keep nominating and electing him to the Congress by overwhelming margins? Me thinks you dost protest too much and just don't want to have to admit to yourself and your friends that you were hoodwinked by this administration's lies.

[Jackpine Radical]

65. Wow. Right on, friend.

Welcome home and thanks.

FWIW, I'm a Viet vet (1st Cav, infantry). It sure sucks to realize you put a lot of friends in body bags for nothing, doesn't it?

[green917]

71. It sure does!

Thanks for the support!

[Vinnie From Indy]

79. I'll see your "Oh Really" with a "What the Fuck"

Go ahead and admit it! You are a Rush Limbaugh devotee aren't you?

[rucognizant]

54. So?..................

:evilgrin: :bounce: :crazy:

[The Wielding Truth]

78. Wow, who's been feeding you this crap?

Get out of that frame of mind. There are many more good people in the USA than you think.
Kucinich is fighting for our constitution.

He is honoring his oath of office. If that's crazy then I wish all our representatives should go bonkers.:crazy:

[Hulk]

5. Dennis Kucinich......America's loss.

This man was and will always be my first choice. Maybe it takes a short man to have nothing to lose. Maybe it takes a common man to confront the tyranny in this country. This man speaks his heart, and there is so little bullshit in his delivery. It's so refreshing. YES...What are we waiting for?? Get our troops OUT NOW!!

[Gonnuts]

19. Maybe it takes ...

the American people getting off their asses and marching into offices of these so-called representatives of the people and demanding that before anything else gets done we stop this fucking war and then start dragging the ones responsible for this atrocity before the World Criminal Court!

But, hey, that's just my opinion, you can all go back to sticking your heads in the ground.

[bdamomma]

36. what ever happened to the power of people.

we have numbers to do it.

[rucognizant]

55. I have.........

called Tom Allen 4 times to say he will not get my vote for Senate unless he joins Dennis' Impeachment Bill!
( And Allen is no Patrick McHenry!)

[verges]

80. Unfortunately,

it is the House that has the power to impeach. Not the Senate.

[Gonnuts]

63. Thank you DK - What ARE we waiting for? Join me ...

What are we waiting for? Until you're sipping on your last bowl of gruel before you storm the gates of power? Are we going to wait till we're too weak before we act or now while we still have strength?

Those of you involved with already organized groups for non-violent political change must co-ordinate and organize - if you don't belong to one, it doesn’t matter, because what we must do now is find out how many of us are willing stop this madness now. No matter if it's war, economy, impeachment, 9/11, take your pick, we need to get these supposed leaders to LISTEN TO US!

WE CAN DO IT! It won't cost a penny, and in most cases will turn out to be funny - in all cases revealing, some cases may be tragic, but hopefully not - it will not fail to make headlines - it will bring commerce to a screeching halt - and it will change the world for better overnight ... this Monday as many of us who can make it need to show-up at our local representatives office nude ... that's right, naked as the day you were born. No ID's, no nothing, just us wanting them to know that we'll be back again and again in all our glory until they start doing their jobs. (Being fair - those of extra-modest nature may wear underwear - those in cold/wet weather, overcoats - hell, just show-up!)

They’re stripping us naked anyway?

If 1,000 commit around the country and they can get one each, and so forth and so forth, what would they do if 10,000 people showed-up nude around the country asking to speak to their representatives? Tear gas us? Fire hose us? We're NAKED! How's THAT going to play?! How many representatives would join us? (Talk about "full disclosure")

Spread this around - let's see who's willing put their principles where their pants use to be!

[eridani]

6. Let's keep his voice on the national stage every year--

--not just presidential election years.

[Lena inRI]

7. Thanks once again , Congressman Kucinich, for. . .

. . .

the sting of truth !

STUNNING SPEECH AGAIN, DENNIS!

When will this never-ending war, never-ending primary come to an end. . .

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Greyhound]

8. The fact that so many of us, ignore what happens right in front of us, every day,

because we are too shallow, too afraid, too well conditioned, and too willing to sacrifice our fellows to save our own illusion of "security", to take action, is enough to depress a hyena.

We have truly earned, and deserve, what is coming.

[mcollier]

14. Well put Greyhound

Dennis gave a great speech. It will take at least 10 more leaders like Dennis to be voted into Congress for the deadlock in Washington to really be minimized.

[rucognizant]

56. I haven't!

earned what is coming & I surely DON"T DESERVE IT! But will anyone listen to me? I'm just a poor OlD woman, everybody knows we're senile and conservative! ( according to Madison Ave!)
Maybe if I were rich????????????

[Greyhound]

92. Neither of us, nor millions of others, but thanks to the overwhelming majority

of sheeple in the country, we will pay too. And just like those foul morans that voted for this disaster, they will all deny they ever did once the fun really gets started.

As I said, too depressing.
:kick:

[Dr.Phool]

9. OK Dennis. You get another check from me tomorrow!

[concerned canadian]

10. no mincing words with Dennis Kucinich

Tonight I watched the movie Stop Loss. I must have heard, in recent years, that American soldiers were being being sent

back to Iraq involuntarily, but like too many people, forgot about it.

I've been shaken to the core by this war before, and tonight some thing reached in and tore out a piece of me.

It wasn't like "This could have been one of sons" because it couldn't happen in Canada. More like, this is what is

happening to America's youngest and bravest soldiers and their families, their plans for the future.

Why CAN'T the Congress and Republicans who are opposed to the war, throw down a gauntlet, introduce some kind of

amendment, to stop the killing, maiming and destruction of human life that is the God damned for sure, Iraq war.

[Gonnuts]

20. Why?

"Why CAN'T the Congress and Republicans who are opposed to the war, throw down a gauntlet, introduce some kind of amendment, to stop the killing, maiming and destruction of human life that is the God damned for sure, Iraq war."

Why? Because we have a public that sits on their asses when they should be physically in the faces of those that say they speak for us demanding that they do the people's will. Otherwise you wind-up with cretins like cheney who feel comfortable enough to get on national TV and tell us "So?" - as in "Fuck you, what are you going to do about it?"

What are you going to do about it?

[Zachstar]

11. I want him for NASA admin!

So he gave give us tough love on the crap that is Ares 1 in my view!

[Breeze54]

84. You suck

big loughies. :grr:

[puebloknot]

12. Dennis Kucinich: The face of all that America really stands for --

-- absent corporation malfeasance and a turn toward fascism and world domination.

The marriage of intelligence and integrity: That's Dennis Kucinich. Be still, my political heart!

[99th_Monkey]

13. Thanks Dennis for not shutting up about this illegal, murderous, unjust & counter-productive war

I'm so sorry for America that you were "passed over" in the Primaries; it's our loss.

[cyclezealot]

15. You are so lucky. To have DK as your Rep.

Pelosi, Reid hoped to marganilize Dk. Well, there is an alliance of Democratic candidates seeking election in November to the HOuse. They say when they get there, if they do; they will join DK's call to stop the funding. How will the leadership deal with them, when DK's rankds is enhanced. Lets just hope that is so, since so many of these Democratic challengers are in Republican leaning districts.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. That's MY President speaking

He's the one who should be in the Oval Office--I really think he's the one who can lead us out of this mess sanely. Yes, I'll vote for the Democrat in November, but I'll wish the name I was voting for was Kucinich.

[lazyriver]

17. I'll be sending him my beer money from now until he gets

re-elected in November. I don't even want to think about a Congress that doesn't have this man in it.

[Bunkie0913]

18. The Man tells it like it is

I love Dennis. He has more integrity in his pocket with mini-Colbert than most elected officials have in their souls, except most don't have souls! Kucinich 2012! If our democracy survives that long.

[Gonnuts]

21. It's already dead ...

"... if the democracy survives that long."

What "democracy"? It's easier to climb a greased poll than get on a ballot and once you're on you face a media set-up to destroy you the moment you go off message, all the while you're begging for money from people that are more often than not opposed to anything progressive and then you go against rigged voting machines that make the whole process moot. And if you should somehow make it into office where 98% of incumbents get re-elected you face the fate DK is in where he's ignored and ridiculed by those that have sold their souls for a few pieces of silver.

This is a country that claims to have a democracy, but it's in name only. Strip away the thin veneer and we're a fascist state.

[N4457S]

91. It's Not Fascist...

...if you're a southern evangelical who lives in the suburbs and has family income of $100K+ per year.

And there are a lot of them. Tons.

[fascisthunter]

22. Signed in to Kick and Recommend

This man says it like it is... no BS.

[tomp]

23. anyone other than kucinich is a DISTANT second.

the presidential race is reduced to mere politics without him.

[man4allcats]

24. It is a sad commentary on both the Democratic Party and

the times we live in that Dennis Kucinich is not the 2008 Democratic nominee for president of the United States.

[pegleg]

25. There's nothing left to say about this endless pointless war. N/T

[caseycoon]

26. AHHH Dennis! My first & only real choice.

What a loss for America!
Thankfully you are still right in there speaking the truth for us.

[pjt7]

27. Any chance Obama

can select him for a meaningful position within his administration? Health Care? Education?

[caseycoon]

28. I really, really hope so!

I believe he would enhance Obama's administration considerably.
:D

[oasis]

29. K AND R

[victordrazen]

30. He should be pres

not these other jokers.

[CONN]

76. yep

[Norrin Radd]

31. kr

[scytherius]

32. What the poor man doesn't realzie

He doesn't realize that the reason there is "waiting" is that there is no America anymore. There is no land of the free and home of the brave. this is a terrorist country run by thugs and a public mostly too comfortable, too lazy and too stupid to do anything about it.

[pegleg]

40. you are exactly right and both parties are at fault and to blame now

[Breeze54]

82. He realizes MORE on the lint on his sleeve then many ever will!!

:grr:

[windoe]

33. Ending war, corporate takeover and impeachment

are poisons that ended Kucinich and Edwards run for presidency. Obama seems to know to stay off these forbidden subjects.

[Adam4tvs]

34. You guys do realize...

...that Bush has proven that he will send in the troops unarmed if he has to, right? Funding? Who needs funding?

Until Bush is out - nothing can be done.

[ooglymoogly]

44. yes you are right....we are the can't do generation.

sarcasm on

[Breeze54]

83. Bull fucking SHIT!! The Congress can END the funding!!

:grr:

[bdamomma]

35. EXACTLY DENNIS!!

Or should it be WHAT ARE WE AS CITIZENS WAITING FOR???

[BuyingThyme]

37. kcik

[Auggie]

38. He was speaking to a bunch of empty seats.

No applause. No acknowledgment. Our Congress stinks.

Thanks anyway, Dennis.

[ooglymoogly]

47. Golfus interuptus

[Fireweed247]

49. It is always like that

It should be some sort of...a necessity...to actually do your job, discuss current events, and pay attention to what they hell is going on. It this were any other job, they would be fired.

[Breeze54]

85. Don't you mean 'empty heads'?

Many members of Congress give speeches when there isn't a 'full house'.

Where the hell have you been? :shrug:

You should be embarrassed for saying that.

:blush: much?

[Auggie]

89. Golly, thanks for the civics lesson professor!

:rofl:

[DutchLiberal]

39. Too bad I can't see any video.

:shrug:

[Breeze54]

86. Use the YouTube link in the OP or get a new computer. n/t

[DutchLiberal]

90. I don't need a new computer. It worked perfectly before.

Now it's okay again. Only yesterday something was wrong...

[jjr5]

41. Why is he not the presidential candidate??

He and Obama would actually make a good ticket- President, VP or vice versa.

[ooglymoogly]

43. When he was eliminated from the debates by corporate media was the time for us to stand

as a people and as a democracy and yell we are mad as hell....but only a few of us did. The rest of the nation just said 'Oh well" and went back to sleep. He was and is Number One.

[Bluenorthwest]

45. Dennis Kucinich, the only candidate

who had my full and unreserved support for the office of President.

[Wizard777]

46. He speaks truth to power! Go Dennis!

:headbang: :yourock: :headbang:

[BlooInBloo]

50. Clearly GW's poll numbers are far too high for Congress to do anything so precipitous.

[NorthCarolina]

51. For the life of me I will never really understand

how this man got so little PUBLIC attention during his campaign (I know the media ignored and marginalized his campaign, it's the electorate I am referring to). Web site after web site offering "blind taste tests" on the candidates repeatedly showed that Kucinich's views were far and away the closest to that of the general public, and yet he received little support. Makes no sense to me, never will I guess.

[slipslidingaway]

52. Thanks and he dares to mention the control of Iraq Oil, others just

say we need to protect our interests :(

[L. Coyote]

57. #60. I have to REC one of these one minute speeches DAILY, please.

Someone needs to step up like this every day. If not many every day.

[Kaleko]

60. "....And stop trying to control the oil of Iraq!"

The simple truth. Thank you, Dennis.

You're The Man!

[swimmernsecretsea]

61. That's my hero, Dennis Kucinich. Shh, everyone. He's speaking. nt.

[greiner3]

62. His oration skills have improved imensly!

[humbled_opinion]

64. Would Obama at least consider him for the VP...

Please... someone petition this on our behalf...:patriot:

[NorthCarolina]

73. I WISH, but ain't gonna happen nt

[L0oniX]

66. He was my first choice. n/t

[Kaleko]

72. Mine too. Hopelessly so,

given the consciousness of the general public: 50 % sheep, 20% cows.

:cry:

[NorthCarolina]

74. Mine also nt

[arundhatiroyfan]

67. Thank you Dennis!

[Bensthename]

68. I love that guy

[redqueen]

69. K&R

*sigh*

[superkia]

70. Its too bad the media is controlled by money because if they...

would have actually covered DK like one of the mainstream candidates, his message would have hit home with so many. Instead they try to black him out and when that doesn't work they switch to belittling him.

I wish Obama would bring him in as VP, not only would we have a voice out there but there is no way the corrupt system would take out Obama because they would have DK to deal with.

[NorthCarolina]

77. It's not just the media, the DLC also tried to get him out of office

by funding his competitors campaign in the primary as he's too progressive for the DLC's liking. If nothing else, I hope ALL Dems are committed to voting any DLC Democrats out of office at each opportunity to do so.

[Breeze54]

87. Fuckin' A+ !!!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[LWolf]

75. K&R for the best

the Democratic Party has to offer.

:kick:

[Breeze54]

81. Kicking because I can't recommend it now...

:(

:kick:

[democracy1st]

88. Great Job Mr. Kucinich

Speaking truth to power