We deserve the best and the best is
Dennis Kucinich

People/Groups who have endorsed Kucinich, partial list:

Sean Penn, Willie Nelson, Frances Fisher, James Cromwell, Alexandra Paul, Hector Elizondo, Shelley Morrison, Paul Haggis, Ed Begley,Jr., Theresa and Blasé Bonpane, Aris Anagnos, John Robbins, Howard Lyman, Paul Wenner, Stephen Longfellow Fiske and LA City Councilman Bill Rosendahl,  Labor Leader Ray Cordova, Patrick Henry Democratic Club of America, National Youth Rights Assoociation-Orange County, Youth For Honest Government and VotePeace.info

Michael Moore: "Thank You Dennis Kucinich for running for President"

See how the candidates compare on the issues

Kucinich Wins in a Landslide 'On the Issues' Independent Online Analysis Shows

Kucinich: Impeachment: I'm asking you.  Do you think it's time?

See Kucinich's winning presentation at South Carolina Presidential debate

See Kucinich's winning presentation at the CNN Presidental debate

January 27, 2008

Today, Peace Research Group VotePeace.info endorsed Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney and Ron Paul for President of the United States.  The endorsement covers political parties that will have primaries on Super Tuesday, 2008.  Though Kucinich has withdrawn, from the race, VotePeace noted that his name is still on the ballot and that votes for Kucinich will bring peace delegates to the Democratic National Convention.  Cynthia McKinney is running for the nominations of the Green and Peace and Freedom Parties.  Ron Paul recently came in second in the Republican Nevada caucuses.  There is a dispute as to whether Paul came in first or second in Louisiana....

Wednesday, 05 September 2007

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

"I've been standing here for the last 45 minutes praying to God you were going to call on me." - Dennis Kucinich to George Stephanopoulos, ABC news

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich is alive, well, and free to move about as he pleases. Yet corporate media treat him like brutal dictators disappearing the opposition. They don't want voters to know that a Democratic presidential candidate will defend the citizenship rights of Americans and human rights around the world.

Kucinich was mayor of a major city, Cleveland, Ohio. He is now a six-term member of Congress and a Democratic presidential candidate for the second time. His progressive views are firmly in the mainstream, but right wing propaganda labels them unpopular. Kucinich's demand for ethical corporate behavior makes the media nervous. If he became president their bosses would have to accept a government serving the needs of citizens instead of being only at the beck and call of corporate power. Like good minions everywhere, reporters make sure the higher ups remain happy.

"Kucinich's demand for ethical corporate behavior makes the media nervous."

Kucinich has sponsored a bill to impeach Vice President Cheney, opposes any further funding of the occupation of Iraq, advocates health care for all, and exposes the lies used to justify the planned killing of thousands in Iran. His choice to live up to the values that Democrats claim has earned him only scorn and derision from the media. They use a variety of methods to disappear him, including removing his image from photos, ignoring him during debates, and simply acting as if he doesn't exist.
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POPULAR CANDIDATE KUCINICH WINS POLL AFTER POLL
ABC TRIES TO HIDE POLL RESULTS
Special Report by the Creative Youth News Team

February 24, 2007

This weekend the tallest man in America, in terms of courage and strength of character, established that he also  is the most charismatic speaker in America.  Dennis  Kucinich hit the Southland like a whirlwind, waking up audiences all over Los Angeles County to the fact that he will indeed be the next Comander-in-Chief.  He's not running to make a point.  He's running because he is going to be the next President of the United States.
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Is Dennis Kucinich the Black Candidate?

by BAR [Black Agenda Report] managing Editor Bruce Dixon

“The Cleveland congressman’s record matches the best of the Congressional Black Caucus across the board.”

By now, most of us have seen a Congressional hearing or two on TV and can reconstruct the familiar scene in our minds. A continuous row of desks on a raised platform, complete with nameplates and microphones occupies one wall. Opposite them are chairs for spectators and in the middle you'll see tables at which those testifying can face the members of Congress, with space between those tables and the members for cameras and recording devices. But when Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland, Ohio convened what may have been the first ever Congressional hearings into the civilian death toll of the three-year-old Iraq war, the room's layout was dramatically different.

Kucinich was the lone member of Congress present at the hearing. The imposing row of raised desks, nameplates and microphones against one wall was vacant. Kucinich sat at the same table with Middle East scholar Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, and with two authors of the peer-reviewed Lancet study which fixed the number of excess deaths produced by the US invasion of that unhappy land at about 650,000 to date, more than 200 dead Iraqis for each American. The four men at the table faced a small number of media and spectators.

Not a single one of the 75-strong member Congressional Progressive Caucus was in attendance. Not one member of the Congressional Black Caucus was present. Three days earlier, Congressman Kucinich had declared himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008.
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Rep. Kucinich: Why I’m Running for Presiden

Posted on Dec 12, 2006 by Joshua Scheer

The six-term Ohio congressman and 2004 presidential candidate, who has been one of Congress’ most vocal and longstanding opponents of the Iraq war, tells Truthdig why he again has his sights set on the Oval Office: Rep. Kucinch spoke with Truthdig research editor Joshua Scheer*.

TRUTHDIG: What made you decide to run?

KUCINICH: Someone has to rally the American people, to let them know that the money is there right now to bring our troops home. Democrats were put in power in November to chart a new direction in Iraq. It’s inconceivable that having been given the constitutional responsibility to guide the fortunes of America in a new direction, that Democratic leaders would respond by supporting the administration’s call for up to $160 billion in new funding for the war in Iraq.

For me this is a call of conscience to stand up and speak out about what’s going on—to let the American people know that the money is there to bring our troops home now, that we need to begin now to take a new direction in Iraq, and that to pass a supplemental in the spring for another $160 billion would keep the war going until the end of George Bush’s term. Someone needs to stand up and speak out, and I decided it was my responsibility as the person who has been consistently opposed to this war since its inception, who has been a leader in challenging this thinking that led to war, that I would stand up and rally Democrats to change the course that the party has embarked on with respect to continued funding of the war.
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KUCINICH WINS NEVADA, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FORUM
SPECIAL REPORT BY THE CREATIVE YOUTH NEWS TEAM

Kucinich Brings the Crowd to it's Feet in Nevada

Appeal forum room draws crowd of more than 300; Richardson, Reid and Kucinich

Staff reports
February 21, 2007

Congressman Dennis Kucinich prepared for today's noon forum with an impromptu pep rally at the Nevada Appeal.

He and New Nexico Gov. Bill Richardson stopped in before the crowd of about 300 to shake hands with attendees and share their thoughts.
... Richardson, who followed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to the podium pledged to be the first presidential candidate to accept the debate set for August in Reno and to debate in Searchlight — even if the debate is between just he and Reid.

Kucinich shouted to the crowd "Do you hear me Nevada? Are you ready for change Nevada? Are you ready for health care Nevada? Are you ready for peace Nevada? Are you ready for Kucinich Nevada?"

All questions were answered by a resounding yes by a crowd standing on its feet.
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Dennis Kucinich -- a can’t lose campaign
By Jack Balkwill
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Dec 14, 2006, 00:19

Progressives now have a candidate for president in 2008 in Dennis Kucinich.

The corporate media made him their enemy during his 2004 run, when they either ignored him or attacked him. But despite opposition by the powers that be, progressives can only win by his running.

The corporate media have made their choice clear, as in this Associated Press statement on the day Kucinich announced, “New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is considered the party's front-runner, closely followed by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.” Considered by whom?

Ahh, there’s the rub. Considered by the transnational corporations and their Democratic Leadership Council filter on behalf of transnational investors who don’t give a damn about this country or its people, other than what they can steal from both. Hillary and Obama are going to be buried in cash and favorable media coverage as the backup plan, in case the transnational investors can’t cram another Republican down the throats of the electorate.

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I believe Kucinich can actually win the primary if only two things happen. First, he has to raise big bucks on the Internet as Dean did. And second, a massive campaign of education must take place, much like what I do daily at Liberty Underground, informing liberals and leftists of the news beyond the corporate crap which passes for news in the Land of the Free, often framing it within the historical context ignored by the corporate media.

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Rigging the presidential race with “rock stars” and “front-runners”
By Jack Balkwill
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Jan 29, 2007, 01:03

Those who run the country are hard at work selecting the next president. No, I don’t mean the Bush regime -- higher up. No, not Exxon-Mobil or General Dynamics -- higher up than that. That’s right, the big transnational investors who rent our elections with their euphemistic “campaign financing” bribes, often through their corporations, then get the money back for campaign ads on the TV networks they control. They are currently working on a three-option plan to decide who our next president will be.
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Kucinich has taken great risks to his career on behalf of leftist causes going back to his days as mayor of Cleveland. Corporate media see Kucinich as a much feared threat in the way they treat his candidacy. I have read several of their articles discussing Democratic candidates for 2008, in which a dozen or more candidates were listed without the name Kucinich, even though he was an announced candidate and the others were not. They are obviously trying to kill him with silence, a favorite tactic.

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And in his debates with the other Democrats, Kucinich will be heard by audiences across the land. The other Democrats must not be allowed to get away with phony withdrawal plans which go nowhere and allow the war to continue indefinitely. Kucinich’s plan goes for the throat of the war in calling for cutting off all funding except enough to finance a ride home for the troops.

With everyone left of center getting on board the Kucinich bandwagon early, it is possible to raise money on the Internet and go around the corporate media, as Howard Dean did last time. With enough attention to his issues, it is probable to, at the very least, move the Democratic platform to the left, and possible, in a longshot (because of corporate media hostility to one they see as opposing their special interests, Big Oil, the Nuclear Mafia, Polluters Inc., etc.) to win the Democratic nomination.

Kucinich will appeal to those who want the war ended, standing out in the pack. He will also appeal to black voters, important to Democratic primaries. Black Agenda Report’s managing editor, Bruce Dixon, said of Kucinich, “For our money right now, he's the blackest candidate in the ring.”

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