Dennis Kucinich: 'Wake up America'

Unbelievable. What a passionate speaker, and right to the point. He said what I think and feel, but what no one else seems to want to admit. Hard core truth

Do these look like 18+ million democrats that are going to vote for Senator Barack Obama?

Hillary Clinton Supporters For John McCain:

http://www.hcsfjm.com

Party Unity My A$$ PAC/People United Means Action PAC:

http://blog.pumapac.org

Democrats Against Obama/Nobama ever!

http://democrats-against-obama.org

Just Say No Deal:

http://justsaynodeal.com

Take a look around these sites for a half hour or 45 minutes and then you decide....(there are hundreds more linked to these, just look for links)

"Quit paying to blow up bridges in Iraq and then paying to rebuild them. Bring that money home. Our bridges are falling down."-Ron Paul, Dec. 2007

""Borrowed money to bomb bridges in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.No money to rebuild bridges in America."-Dennis Kuchinich, Aug. 2008

I guess Biden isn't the only political plagiarist around!

You sir were my FIRST choice for the democratic nomination.

Thank goodness there's a democrat left in congress.

Right on, Dennis. Make this speech viral, folks. *No* Republicans in 2008.

I wish Kucinich was the nominee. It will have to be Obama by default.

In a better-educated America, Kucinich is the nominee and this is his acceptance speech.

Too bad Americans look to celebrity before intelligence. You can still be president. We just need to spend more money on education in America for that to happen.

Dennis Kucinich is my Congressman, too! How's that for plagiarism?

Hey nunu, you got it backwards. Ron Paul is the plagiarist:
"We need to start building bridges instead of blowing them up," he (Dennis Kucinich) told them.
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
08/18/2007

http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2007/08/kucinich_draws.html

Finally, a man who speaks the truth. Why not make him the keynote speaker? THat's the problem with the Obama campaign, no real risk taking, Take on Black families to appease white voters. Where is the talk to the poor, the disenfranchised, the struggling working class that Michelle came from? Dennis was my first choice, too.

His big mouth sure didn';t win him the Democrat nomination for President

Dennis Kucinich said exactly what needed to be said, and I'm glad the DNC gave him the forum to say it. Unfortunately, the author of this news story, Mark Silva, so larded the intro to Kucinich's comments with snark that I had to hold my nose while stepping over his rhetoric on the way to Kucinich's stirring words. Mark, please, your bias is showing.

Mark Silva: plenty of time to report on Dennis Who?, but no time to mention the latest Gallup Poll (showing McCain leading and Obama losing ground) or even the ABC News story on Joe Biden's lobbyist son, who's suddenly become rich. See http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5640118&page=1
for the details, and how young Biden's firm lobbies his father.

He's one of the more fascinating politicians around.

Big money and big law firms in Cleveland tried to do him in, but eventually he came back.

Senate?

So why does he not run for office???? It's one thing to sit in the stands and scream at the coaches & players and another to be down on the field getting into the game. History is full of yahoo's like Dennis who have all the answers but don't have the guts to run for office.

Representative Kucinich is absolutely correct. The current brand of Republicanism IS the problem. In their fervent rush to enrich and empower themselves, their friends and to prove themselves RIGHT above all else, today's Republicans are creating a counter-America based on Fascism, aka Corporatism and creating a new Aristocracy. All this in the land that began as 13 little colonies dedicated to equality and fairness to all. The Republican party used to be a proud and noble party. Not any more. The Conservative movement used to be a proud, noble philosophy. Not any more. These groups need to be stripped of power so they can regroup and rethink their core values and come back to the mainstream once they have dedicated themselves to the TRUE American dream and spirit of equality for all. The grand American experiment is failing. Any person of good conscience must flat-out REJECT this current brand of Republicanism and DEMAND that they change their ways for the good of our nation's future.

The Democratic Party, I grant you, is FAR from perfect. In fact, I don't like them very much at all. The current broken two-party system we have severely limits our choices to create a more perfect union, one that we more sincerely deserve. This said, the Democratic party, and Barack Obama, is our best- no, our ONLY hope- for moving away from the virulent, un-American and immoral policies of the current brand of Republicanism and Conservatism.

Representative Kucinich was my first choice in the primaries and I wish our great country were ready for a President of his vision and sense of duty to good. In the meantime, the most important step we as Americans can take to bust our way through all the BS in our ongoing duty to form that oh-so-elusive more perfect union is to reject the pestilence known as modern Republicanism and Conservatism and embrace the American ideals in which this country was founded. Don't think of it as voting for the Democratic party so much as voting AGAINST modern Republicanism and Conservatism.

Only MASSIVE Democratic turnout will prevent the voting results this November from being handed to the Republican thieves in what WILL otherwise be a manufactured squeaker. With McCain, of course, winning by a hair over Obama. Only a huge margin of victory by Obama will prevent another electoral theft by the crooks in the Republican-controlled voting machine companies.

After we get rid of the Republicans we then have to get rid of the two-party system. We need to first RECOGNIZE the problem in our system and then re-invent it in the spirit of common, shared identity, love of country and a dedication to the betterment of our quality of life. For ALL, not just for the privileged few as it exists today. We can do better this. And we must. Or this country will not be recognizable a generation from now.

More MSM spinning. You say he "reluctantly" endorsed Obama-Biden?????? Please everyone, go watch the speech on YouTube if you haven't seen it already and see for yourself instead of reading this spin. It was practically the PUNCHLINE!!

And you think Barac is the answer? Only if the question is "how far has the middle shifted to the right". Vote Nader or let the media choose your candidate.

P.O., you are wise.

However, I think it would be better just to shrink the Republican party way down, say, to a size so it could be drowned in the bathtub.

A Truth Commission would be a good start.

And a Judiciary Act of 2009.

Tim said:

So why does he not run for office???? It's one thing to sit in the stands and scream at the coaches & players and another to be down on the field getting into the game. History is full of yahoo's like Dennis who have all the answers but don't have the guts to run for office.

You're kidding, right? If Dennis Kucinich didn't have the "guts to run for office" than how is that he is a Congressman? Oh yeah, he also ran for the Democratic nomination for President twice. I guess those just came to him via osmosis.

Wow. Those are the words of a genuine patriot - after all the phony poseurs from Ollie North to Newt Gingrich illy "Loofa-boy" O'Reilly, we'd forgotten what genuine patriotism is. Hint: It's NOT blindly parroting the drivel from Fox News. It's not defending Dubya's treason. It's caring about our nation and it's people - Kucinich has a whole lot more cred tonight than I thought possible. Dennis, I salute you.

So why does he not run for office???? It's one thing to sit in the stands and scream at the coaches & players and another to be down on the field getting into the game. History is full of yahoo's like Dennis who have all the answers but don't have the guts to run for office.

Posted by: Tim | August 26, 2008 8:17 PM

Tim - seriously... you shouldn't talk of what History is full of unless you actually know what you're talking about yourself.

So why does he not run for office???? It's one thing to sit in the stands and scream at the coaches & players and another to be down on the field getting into the game. History is full of yahoo's like Dennis who have all the answers but don't have the guts to run for office.
Posted by: Tim | August 26, 2008 8:17 PM

Speaking of 'yahoo's'...

Hate to tell this to lefties such as "gayle ca", but there's a reason your guy UFO Kucinich isn't being allowed to speak in prime time.

It's because the leaders of the Democratic Party know that he's so nutty that he'll turn voters off.

This isn't my judgment. It's the judgment of Dem leaders. That is what they think of him--and by extension, what they think of you.

Nader Paul Kucinich Gravel
McKinney Ventura
Perot charts...
RATM

Honesty compassion intelligence guts;
Or more of the same RNC/DNC?

I've said it once and I'll say it again Bush and Cheney both should be Tried for war crimes concernig Iraq. We didn't belong there in the first place. As a retired Marine I know this for a fact. We sent men to fight and die in the country of Iraq for OIL and the fact that GW's Dad didn't do the job right the first time around

Sure, Bruce, but that doesn't in and of itself make the Democratic leadership right. Many such as myself happen to think they're, for the most part, a bunch of lazy cowards who are negligent and borderline treasonous in their duty to serve their constituencies (ending the Iraq occupation, investigations into the Bush administration's MANY lies and deceptions, hearings for impeachment, etc). What they think is "nutty" about Kucinich, his supporters most likely think is courageous. This is exactly part of the problem with modern political parties and why I feel the whole concept of them must be completely redone from the ground up. What I think is nutty is playing it safe in these Orwellian times when black is white, down is up and a habitual liar like GWB still has any support and credibility at all left even amongst the 29% most socially maladjusted and ignorant of all Americans. Courageous voices like Kucinich's must not be drowned out by "safe" rhetoric just so elected officials don't rock the boat in their party and can go on to re-election. Legitimate, serious voices such as Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, Bob Barr etc. deserve to have their voices heard and not ridiculed *just because* they don't fit into the so-called "mainstream" of the do-nothing, rotten, cancerous political parties that their unique voices are wedged into under the current system. Ridicule them all you like on the issues, not because they're not popular with the mainstream. Don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution.

Then again, your need to address some of your fellow citizens as "lefties" (the next generation of the Cold War "Commies" slur) and to refer to Rep. Kucinich as "UFO" casts a glaring light on your wisdom, your ability to think critically and constructively, and your ability to be mature rather than dismissive and childish in your choice to discuss Rep. Kucinich's time slot rather than the substance of the man's actual message tonight.

Americans DO need to wake up...I cannot believe anyone would vote for four more years of BUSHIE. I don't care if we have someone with one year experience they can do better. It's not about one person running this country it's the people and team around him. Obama will get the best people around him. WAKE UP AMERICA and vote with your brain.

What is with all the DK supporters? Is this what happens when Gus Hall isn't around to run?

Dennis is great--I am so glad he ran for President--he said things that need to be said. I thought it was okay that the other party "won" (not really) in 2000--after all, we have checks and balances. Who would think for one minute that nothing was ever investigated and that we would do seven years of blank checks for the wars in Iraq and Afganistan?? Republicans will say anything to win--check out what was said by them in 2000--Bush wasn't for "nation-building", they would keep the tax breaks for renewable energy. See it really doesn't mean anything what they say, because they are liars. It's all about the almighty dollar. I know a lot of people fault the Democrats for not doing more since their thin majority won in 2006 (Sorry, Joe Libermann is NOT one of us). If you don't have the votes, you don't have the votes. And Republicans smear the Dems during elections ("He didn't support the PATRIOT ACT!) Somebody needs to be reading these laws before they get passed--better yet, put them online. Watch how your congressman votes--they vote very carefully, so that when they are up for election, they can distort their record. Also, watch for all the "little" things that are added to bills, so our government can go thru with crap like the I-35 corridor, which if taken all together, would not pass the smell test. We have to get real, and pay attention. Oil dependence just makes for more tyrants. We need to figure out how to use hydrogen--everybody's got it, and then use oil as needed. Besides, sooner or later we will have to do it. Limited supply, right?

All that ranting like a loon.
If I were a democrat at that convention,I'd be pretty insulted that I was being shouted at like like that! I guess he feels that all you dem's are asleep.
"Wake Up" folks, Mr. Nobama is a empty shell. Change? Socialism is a change.

Wake up, America. This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left. This is call for you to go from down to up. Up with the rights of workers. Up with wages. Up with fair trade. Up with creating millions of good paying jobs, rebuilding our bridges, ports and water systems. Up with creating millions of sustainable energy jobs to lower the cost of energy, lower carbon emissions and protect the environment.

"Up with health care for all. Up with education for all. Up with home ownership. Up with guaranteed retirement benefits.

AKA: UP WITH TAXES!