Here’s an appeal I received yesterday. It’s a good cause: let’s do what we can.

I have come to your site via 35%ers to ask all of you ( as have bluegal last week) to use whatever influence you have to push the A-list bloggers to make as much an effort to support Wexler’s petition as they did to goad/support Dodd and the FISA filibuster. As on this evening, Wexler’s Impeachment petition has over 129,000 signups, all without a major push on the blogs. Wexler’s goal is 250K but I think if the left blogosphere were to make it a priority, one million signature before Jan8, 08 (when the Judiciary Committee returns to business) is very possible. That would be the kind of outcry that Pelosi and Conyers could not ignore.

I am just a lowly commenter, and, therefore I have found, of no consequence, to the A-listers. That’s fine, I have no personal sense of importance about this but do think that impeaching Cheney is the first step in returning to a democracy. I am, of course, aware that hearings and trial would increase Dennis’s visibility but that is only a side benefit, not an ulterior motive. At any rate, I hope you will get behind an effort to get all lefty blogs to link Wexler’s petition daily and request their readers to sign up if they haven’t yet done so. Glenn Greenwald credits a few blogger with getting together to push for Dodd to hold and the filibuster FISA resulting in 500K emails in just a few day. Think how effective a similar effort would be wrt Impeachment.

Thanks for anything you can do, Merry Christmas and Go Dennis!

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Filed under: Politics, News on December 23rd, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Word from the campaign:

“The time has come to take the Kucinich campaign off the Internet and into the streets of our local communities. If you’re interested in doing things in the real world for Dennis then you have to join your Dennis Kucinich Statewide Meetup group! It’s Free and there’s one in every state!

Dennis Kucinich Meetup Map and List

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Filed under: Kucinich, Uncategorized on December 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Here’s a really nice video: “Do it for you and yours this holiday season.”

That $100 donation could buy a lot you really want this year.

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Filed under: Kucinich, Music, Video on December 10th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Just a short post with a link to The Largest Minority, where you can watch videos from the Heartland Presidential Forum. For a change, all the candidates got equal time. No more moderator talking for more time than some of the candidates (yes, Stephanopoulos, I’m looking at you), or tossing questions at the media’s annointed big three and cutting off the others when they did get tossed a bone (yeah, Blitzer. You).

You know, I have a fantasy. In my fantasy, someone from the floor asks a question - oh, something like “What qualities will you look for in a Supreme Court nominee?” and Blitzer (or whoever) turns to the candidates and asks if they’ll use abortion as a litmus test - and the person on the floor starts shouting. “Hey! Hey, Blitzer! That’s not my question! Ask my question!”

Anyway, at this forum, they all got to address all the topics, in turn. As often happens when Dennis is allowed to talk, he scored, and scored big.

But watch it and see what you think.

It’s your election. You make the call.

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Filed under: Politics, Kucinich, Video on December 2nd, 2007 | 3 Comments »

IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY

We all know that something is very wrong in our country. The Rule of Law, the Balance of Powers, and our Constitutionally guaranteed Civil Liberties have been under sustained assault by an Administration that is brazen and unrepentant in its abuses of our rights and our founding principles. And, to make matters worse, the Democratic leadership of the House and the Senate have failed to exercise the Constitutional authority granted to Congress to stop those abuses and hold violators accountable.

The results? The powers of the Executive Branch have gone unchecked and its policies unchallenged. The Congress and the American people were deceived into an illegal and immoral war in Iraq, and those same deceptions and manipulations are being used to justify a new war in Iran. The government is spying on its own citizens, ignoring judicial protections and due process, denying the right of habeas corpus, and refusing to abide by international laws, treaties, and principles.

Our nation faces a crisis, yet its leaders, and the candidates campaigning for the Presidency, refuse to acknowledge or address it in any substantive way.
That’s why it’s time for: A DIALOGUE FOR DEMOCRACY.

This Thursday, November 29, Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich will host an unprecedented “Dialogue for Democracy” forum that will be streamed LIVE on the Internet at KucinichTV.com . Along with invited guests, Dennis will bring this crisis to the attention of the nation and the world so we can better understand what’s wrong, and, more importantly, what we can do about it. The first segment of the LIVE broadcast begins at 11 a.m. and continues until 1 p.m. The LIVE forum will resume at 5 p.m. and end at 9:30 p.m.

AN INVITATION TO SPEAK OUT! The Kucinich campaign is also extending this open invitation to representatives of interested organizations and concerned citizens to participate in this “Dialogue” by sending an email to dialogue@kucinich.us. Tell us who you are, the issues you want discussed, and whether you or your organization would like to participate directly during any of the LIVE broadcasts.

OUR DEMOCRACY - YOUR DEMOCRACY - is at stake in this election. And there’s something you can do about it. You can stand with the candidate who stands with you. The one candidate who isn’t afraid to speak the truth, to give honest answers, and to lay out real solutions that don’t protect the status quo. If that’s the kind of leader you want, someone who will protect and defend YOUR interests and rights under the Constitution, consider making a contribution to the Kucinich for President Campaign today. It’s your way of ensuring that your voice will continue to be heard throughout the debates, the primaries, and the caucuses.

Defend the Constitution
The Kucinich Campaign

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Filed under: Kucinich, News on November 28th, 2007 | No Comments »

Here’s the latest 35%ers vid, courtesy of Manila Ryce over at The Largest Minority. Pure genius.

And don’t forget to donate $100 or more to the Kucinich campaign on December 15th, 2007. The goal is to create a one-day contribution of $10 million. Please spread the word and invest in your country this holiday season. There is no better gift to the world and future generations than a Kucinich presidency. Make your pledge at www.December152007.com.

P.S. Sorry this blog has been, well, nonexistent over the past few weeks. We’re working to bring some more bloggers on board to better keep up with things.

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Filed under: Politics, Kucinich, Video on November 27th, 2007 | 3 Comments »

What would today’s world look like from the eyes of the Beav? Is there a leader out there who can help make things right? In this brilliant new video — produced/edited by Manila Ryce and conceived/written by Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein and Manila — we find out. Big props to Edan Bryant, Megan Ford, and Amy Spain on the voiceovers.

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Filed under: Kucinich, Video on October 18th, 2007 | 52 Comments »

If only Matt Taibbi was as widely read, respected and “serious” as Tom Friedman or Howard Fineman, we would have a lot more to look forward to in 2008. (Have you noticed that placing “serious” in quotes is so in right now? Like pogs circa 1993. I do, however, appreciate when mainstream commentators describe candidates/thinkers as “not serious” - that’s usually an indication that we should soak up as much of those unserious ideas as possible. Don’t forget the Iraq War was the most serious idea of our generation, especially among the majority of journalists and politicos who continue to paint the consistent opponents of war as trivial gadflys.)

Anyway, here’s an excerpt from Taibbi’s wonderfully uplifting new piece in Rolling Stone on the seemingly boundless absurdity of presidential politics.

Looking at the field now, it appears that in the end the horse race will come down to three viable candidates on each side — Giuliani, Thompson and Romney on the Republican docket and Hillary, Obama and the tireless John Edwards among the Democrats…

Last but not least, there are parallel irritant figures on both sides in Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, whose jobs it will be to be roundly pilloried for wasting valuable air time (especially in debates) via their embarrassingly dead-on, pain-in-the-ass candidacies. Since neither candidate is a worn-out whore, and neither candidate has cast a single vote for any of the numerous completely avoidable political catastrophes that befell the country in the last four-plus years, both will be described as “fringe” and “unserious” figures who should rightfully be assigned to the “second tier” of presidential hopefuls. Meanwhile, the press will line up to laud as exciting breaths of political fresh air a one-note B-list character actor, a southern governor who believes the earth is 6,000 years old, and a hack plagiarist from Delaware with a head full of hair plugs who offers a “statesmanlike presence” and “raises the level of discourse” as he campaigns shamelessly for the secretary of state’s job.

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Filed under: Politics, Kucinich, News on October 3rd, 2007 | No Comments »

Yep, you read it right. I’m not sure what to make of this, but it’s worth posting so here it is (from today’s NYTimes Magazine):

Favorite Democrat: I like Congressman Dennis Kucinich. He’s running for president. He’s a very feisty guy. He’s a purist. I don’t think he’s going anywhere, but I tend to like true believers.

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Filed under: Kucinich, News on September 15th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

As a supplement to the piece I posted yesterday about Kucinich’s trip to Syria, this short documentary from Current TV, “Syria 101,” is required viewing.

The whole thing is very informative and entertaining, but the last couple minutes of the second video is especially interesting because we hear from young Syrian bloggers speaking openly in a café about the internet, democracy, and American involvement in the region.

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Filed under: Politics, Kucinich, News, Video on September 14th, 2007 | No Comments »