Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont writes in OpEdNews about The State of the Union Bush Forgot to Talk About.

According to Sen. Sanders, since Bush has been in office the true state of the Union has changed dramatically in conrast to Bush’s SOTU: (more…)

If you’re having trouble with mainstream media coverage in keeping up with the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, as far as where they stand in the primaries and caucuses and the number of convention delegates allotted to them so far, try these sources, which cut out all the hype:

Real Clear Politics: 2008 Democratic Delegates

Real Clear Politics: 2008 Republican Delegates

Wikipedia: Results of the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries

Wikipedia: Results of the 2008 Republican presidential primaries (more…)

Who I’ll Vote For Now

I still plan to vote for Dennis Kucinich in the primaries, regardless of his withdrawal from his presidential campaign, since there’s no other candidate who fills the bill for me, and his name is on my primary ballot in California. Even if it wasn’t, I think at this point I’d write him in. (more…)

Video: Kucinich withdraws from Presidential race 01 25 08 (YouTube video)

Text format: Kucinich withdraws from Presidential race (more…)

Yesterday Dennis Kucinich stood on the House floor and called the Bush administration what it is, basing his charge on this report by the Center for Public Integrity:

False Pretenses
Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
(read report)

Others objected to his wording and Kucinich retracted his “offending” speech, since that’s just not done in Congress, calling a liar a liar. (more…)

Two articles posted yesterday about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his vision stood out for me, as a voter who plans to vote for Dennis Kucinich. (more…)

An interview by Chris Hedges, posted at AfterDowningStreet.org explores Dennis Kucinich’s Fight to Bring Credibility to the Democratic Party.

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Kucinich’s appeal, and that means that although he’s fulfilled all other requirements besides signing an oath to “fully support” the party’s nominee, his name still won’t appear on the Texas primary ballot. OpEdNews has more to say about the shutout from the ballot in Texas.

Elizabeth Kucinich has begun a campaign tour of California, and Dennis Kucinich has gained an endorsement from the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA). (more…)

I can’t believe it’s Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday again. Didn’t I just post a tribute to him? Wasn’t that, like, yesterday? My dad turned 85 two days ago, so maybe I’m feeling aware that time moves very swiftly, more so the older we get. I’m not sure why I mark Poe’s birthday and not the birthdays of other poets I love. Perhaps because he seems to have been such a mystery.

Today I’m fascinated by this mystery “Poe toaster” who visits Poe’s grave in Baltimore each year on his birthday, and leaves three red roses and 1/2 a bottle of cognac. Thanks to Brill Crider for the link.

You may not be aware that one of the mysteries surrounding Poe is that it isn’t known for certain what caused his death. A couple of years ago, I came across an online reference to Poe’s death, and a theory by a cardiologist that Poe died of rabies, possibly from a cat bite. He liked cats, and the theory is that he may have been bitten by one of his own pets, or a stray, and contracted the disease.

Our loss.

In any case, Happy 199th Birthday, Mr. Poe.

on Tuesday, January 15, when NBC/General Electric shut him out of its MSNBC debate in Las Vegas?

A couple of days ago I thought we’d never know. Then I found this interview at truthout.org by Amy Goodman, in which she presents the debate questions and the answers from his Democratic opponents, and allows Rep. Kucinich to respond: (more…)

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The Race for the White House

It’s kind of surreal, watching the drama unfold for Dennis Kucinich in the 2008 Presidential primaries and caucuses, and difficult to know what will happen next.

Rep. Kucinich enjoyed what some are calling his “15 minutes of fame” as he spent the past few days as the only Democrat campaigning in Michigan, the state that has been abandoned by the rest of the Democratic Party just because it moved up the date of its primary election. Now Kucinich heads to Nevada, where he’s won his lawsuit, but everyone is uncertain whether he’ll be allowed to debate. Meanwhile his appeal to appear on the Texas ballot remains in question. (more…)

How do you get real information about a candidate, the kind that helps you decide how to vote, reliable information about what the candidate stands for? (more…)

The NBC Debate —

NBC has decided, after earlier inviting him to participate, to change their own rules and exclude Dennis Kucinich from yet another major debate. I think every American should be angry about it: NBC Rewrites its Own Rules to Prevent America from Hearing Kucinich. (more…)

This is all very confusing. Let me see if I get this straight: In protesting a move by the state of Michigan to change the date of its primary election to January 15th, closer than the Democratic Party-approved cutoff date of February 5th, both John Edwards and Barack Obama wound up with their names off the primary ballot there, and aren’t campaigning in the state. I’ve read that they also didn’t turn in the necessary paperwork to allow write-in votes for them.

Isn’t that a classic case of throwing the baby out with the bath water? (more…)

A video posted at afterdowningstreet.org shows Dennis Kucinich in an interview, discussing what someone is voting for when they vote for him:

Kucinich on What You Win With Your Vote
(more…)

Most people close to me are well aware that I hate politics. I also hate how events and policies, and terrorists, have so far in this millennium forced me to think about politics more and more. Though political matters naturally interest me, as a human being who cares about my world, and although I’ve always voted, focus on political matters gets my blood pressure up and ruins my inner peace and ability to focus on what’s really important to me in my life. That’s certainly not the role I want government to have in my country. I worked for the government long enough, and by law had virtually no political voice during that time, and I now want the government to be simply a solid, secure structure that does its job efficiently and sits in the background of my life, taking care of us all as it should. Low maintenance. We pay enough for it, after all. (more…)

Kriss Perras Running Waters of Malibu Arts Reviews Magazine reports that Lord of the Rings Star Viggo Mortensen Joins Forum on Impeachment This Evening Online and in New Hampshire.

Excerpt: “Online participants can watch the panelists and email questions at http://www.kucinichtv.com from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m ET.” (read article)

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Update 7:25 PM
Unfortunately it appeared the Kucinich team had technical difficulties, so the video wasn’t available.

The article linked above mentioned this piece by George McGovern today in The Washington Post: Why I Believe Bush Must Go, in support of impeachment. (more…)

According to the Associated Press, ABC has cut 3 candidates from its upcoming Presidential Debates. The Seattle Times reports that Dennis Kucinich is contesting this decision:

NEW YORK — Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday after ABC News excluded him, fellow Democrat Mike Gravel and Republican Duncan Hunter from today’s debates. (read article)

Kucinich is contesting his and the other candidates’ exclusion, and he’s filing a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Consider that a few weeks ago, Republican Mike Huckabee was nearly as far behind in the polls as some of those now being excluded. It’s not up to ABC or any other network to decide for us how we should vote, or who is a viable candidate at this point in the process, when only one state has chosen its nominees in the two major parties. The American people own the US airwaves, not ABC or any other network. What good is the free press if that press won’t provide us fair, objective, and balanced coverage of something as important as a presidential election? If you wish to let ABC know what you think of this decision, they have a contact page here.

Last night Bill Moyers interviewed Dennis Kucinich on his PBS show, Bill Moyers Journal. If you missed it, you can watch the video or read the transcript here. You can also read the blog entry, Media and the Presidential Election, with viewer comments.

Thank you, Bill Moyers and PBS, for giving this important candidate some of the media coverage he deserves.

Americans voted for a Democratic majority in Congress in 2006, and the message I thought we sent when we did that — just as the media seemed to think — was that most of us wanted out of the Iraq War and wanted to see Cheney and Bush impeached, or at least some true ass-kicking in Washington over the lies they used to get us into the war and the torture and other atrocities committed since. (Both Clinton and Nixon were impeached for far less.)

Yet the candidate who’s taken the most action toward that end, Dennis Kucinich, is BEHIND in the polls.

So my question is, when are Americans going to figure it out? You can have the candidate who appears on TV the most and visits your town, so you get a little thrill before you vote for him or her, and they can have that expensive campaign backed by the very people (wealthy corporatists) who want the opposite of what you want from them, or you can pay more attention to those who don’t have wealthy backers or the nod from mass corporate media, and are actually doing their jobs and campaigning at the same time, at least one of whom wants a true universal healthcare system rather than a corporate health insurance system, and is continuing to take action on behalf of you, who are ignoring them.

Does big business run the country? Or do we, the people?