This is a really inspiring article praising many people in the Democratic Party. Though, only a few paragraphs are included here, the child who wrote it talks about world leaders, past presidents, senators, congresspersons and other leaders who serve as "positive role models" to her generation. It's a long list but very well written.
http://debateusa.com/featured/hull_richter.htmHeroes for My Generation
by Natasha (written prior to her thirteenth birthday)
A lot of people look at all the great leaders who are no longer with us and all the corruption currently in the White House and say there are no positive role models to inspire my generation. However, desperate times often bring out great heroes and leaders. Here are some of them.
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One cannot mention presidents without mentioning Al Gore, elected President of the United States in 2000. The Florida recount showed that the people of Florida voted in 2000 to cast their electoral votes to Al Gore. Al has been a really lousy President, choosing to let a bungling idiot run the country for him. However, he has become a true leader through his speeches and has helped inspire Americans to take back their country. For him, this writer has this advice: kick out the imposter and start doing what the people of the United States elected you to do.
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One of the greatest heroes, if not the greatest in American history, is a Congressman named Dennis Kucinich. He led the opposition to USA-PATRIOT (the document that effectively overturned the Bill of Rights) and to the Iraq War. He is standing up for voter rights and against rigged paperless voting machines, for a restoration of our civil rights and civil liberties and against American-sponsored coups in foreign countries. Kucinich is the one man Americans know they can trust because he put his life and his career on the line to keep his word to voters when he stood up against a take-over of Cleveland's city-owned power company by the corporation that was later responsible for the 2003 Midwest to East Coast blackout. The only reason he is not the party nominee is that the right-wing corporate-owned news media feared him so much it tried to hide his existence from the American public. However, his fight continues. He was the only candidate (outside of John Kerry) who was true to his word to stay in the race through the 2004 Democratic Convention. At the convention, Dennis Kucinich will be fighting to get the Democratic Party leadership to follow the wishes of the Democrats. Most Democrats (actually most Americans) want universal health care, government-funded college, protection of the environment, protection of Social Security benefits, a moratorium on the death penalty, the right of workers to earn a living wage, an end to NAFTA and withdrawal from the WTO. If the Democratic Party wants Democrats to support it, it will need to support the Democrats. As for Dennis, one day he will be President because he is the kind of leader America needs to lead it through the 21st Century.
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