Reply #14: I've supported Kucinich since 1972 when I was a schoolgirl. I wish he'd use his

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platform to seriously go after at least ONE issue of Bush corruption and stay on it like a pitbull uncovering the matter layer by layer for months and years until it made at least a DENT in the historic record.

As much as I love him and his speeches and his heart and his calling attention to wider matters at hand, he's missing the diligence gene that has the patience and determination to stay on something and investigate it through every legal means possible - and that means forcing yourself to read page after page of dry data and drier testimonies of those wellschooled in diverting attention from the 'Machine' and its criminal operations....and doing it for days....for months....and even years.

Kucinich's style would not have accomplished what needed to be done to uncover IranContra. To uncover Iraqgate. To uncover CIA drugrunning. Or the granddaddy of them all, BCCI.

Love DK for who he is. He does a heck of a lot more than most. But...If he'd go beyond the great speeches stating the problems and used his legal powers to the very limits AND had the gene that actually tackled the corruption that exists in the dreariest details of the corrupt machine, he'd be one of the most awesome lawmakers in modern history.