The Nation: Gore Vidal writes about Dennis Kucinich

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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071126/vidal

As I pass through the stage door of one auditorium after another, I now hear the ominous name of Darth Vader, as edgy audiences shudder at the horrible direction our political discourse has taken. Ever eager as I am to shed light, I sometimes drop the name of the least publicized applicant to the creaky throne of the West: Dennis Kucinich. It takes a moment for the name to sink in. Then genuine applause begins. He is very much a favorite out there in the amber fields of grain, and I work him into the text. A member of the House of Representatives for five terms since 1997, although many of his legislative measures have been too useful and original for our brain-dead media to comprehend. I note his well-wrought articles proposing the impeachment of Vice President Cheney, testing the patriotic nerves of his fellow Democrats, but then the fact of his useful existence often causes distress to those who genuinely hate that democracy he is so eager to extend. "Don't waste your vote," they whine in unison--as if our votes are not quadrennially wasted on those marvelous occasions when they are actually counted and recorded.

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1. An excellent article. K&R. nt

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2. read the whole article. it just made up my mind who I'm voting for n/t

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3. I switched a couple days ago, from Edwards. And NOBODY BUT NOBODY

better try to tell me I'm wasting my vote.

DK is the only DEMOCRAT running. Those others, aren't (JE comes close).