Larry – commenting below, linked to a progressive talk radio show based in Las Vegas. I check every link since you never what cool stuff you’ll find, and what I found was Dennis Kucinich had been interviewed that very day on this show.
Being a Kucinich fan from my days in Cleveland, I think we should simply all just rise up and vote for him. Fuck the establishment! and, Fuck that ‘who has the greatest chance to win’ strategy! Whoever we all vote for will win. We don’t have to settle for Hillary, Obama or God forbid, Joe Biden! And then there’s the ReThugs . . . . .
In September, Kucinich was in Las Vegas to help open his campaign office there and agreed to an interview then.
Kucinich was interviewed again on Friday, November 17th, and you can listen to that interview here.
Here’s the link for their audio archives. Some very interesting interviews, as well as several with Mike Gravel, John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, and a few other presidential contenders.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer has a couple of ‘pages’ devoted to Kucinich and his journey down to Ft. Benning, Georgia this weekend as just one of those protesting and demanding the closure of the School of the Americas, now known as ‘Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.’ (The post-9/11 name, apparently).
SOA Watch organizes and works for the closing of this particular training facility. Two of the four churchwomen raped and murdered in December of 1980, by El Salvadoran military trained at Ft. Benning’s SOA, were Sr. Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan. Ita Ford and Maura Clark, two Maryknoll sisters were also raped and slaughtered that Dec. 2nd. Ursuline College is where Kazel’s motherhouse is located, and where I got my bachelors. Kucinich also has a personal interest as well.
One of the martyrs in the SOA cause is Dorothy Kazel, a Cleveland nun who was raped and killed Dec. 2, 1980, by El Salvador National Guardsmen.
“I know the Kazel family very well,” said Kucinich, a former Cleveland mayor.
His relationship with the Kazels goes back to high school. He knew the family well enough to attend Kazel’s going away party before she left for her mission work in El Salvador.
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Dennis Kucinich continues to raise the level of dialogue in the campaign. He’s brave enough to say the things we wish the front-runners would say, but have been advised not to. I think if he was allotted more time during the debates, his numbers would go up.
kucinich, unlike all-too-many had the integrity and foresight to vote for the right things the first time, when it mattered (against the war, patriot act, etc.) if we are unable to look at that, and in doing so realize that it’s the ideas the matter, the proven performance, then it is unfortunate indeed.
the same triangulation that we disdain when witnessing the politiking that goes on in Washington is what makes folk think that they need to go for the frontrunner. but this time it should be about ideas – get enough people to caucus for a delegate, take that delegate to local conventions with the right ideas, and from there to the national convention. whoever wins ought be informed, influenced and exposed by folk who have the right ideas – this makes it critical to get as many kucinich reps in as possible.