5//7/07

A century ago, a Nobel prize winning President said "Walk softly and carry a big stick."  From looking at  Dennis Kucinich, you wouldn't know that he is the Democrat who most frightens the Bush Administration.  He is friendly and open and doesn't look particularly scary or like someone who could take apart the toughest criminals in D.C..  His wife looks like a top fashion model. 

Remember the Matrix?  Watching the candidate is reminiscent of when Neo turns down the blue pill for the red pill and suddenly sees that everything he knew up to that point was a lie and that reality is something different.   The moment you hear Kucinich speak, something happens.  You realize that listening to the speeches from all the other candidates was like taking the blue pill that kept you in the illusion of reality.  As soon as Dennis begins his address, something inside you knows that you are in the presence of truth and that you are about to learn more about what is happening in the nation's capital than you have learned in your whole life up till that moment.

As Dennis speaks from the heart and opens up about what happens in committee meetings and in Congressional back rooms, you realize you've been had by other political leaders.   Unlike the other candidates, he has facts and full and complete information about events and issues that affect your life.  When audience members ask Dennis questions at each of his events,and you watch him answer each question completely and without hesitation, you realize that the reason he seems so honest is that he holds nothing back.  He never hedges his answers.  He gives the audience exactly what it wants.  He hides nothing.  The reason he can do this is that he puts the interests of the people first.  He wants to give them  the information he would want to get if he were in the audience asking the questions.  The difference between Dennis Kucinich and all other leaders is like the difference between daylight and blackness, between truth and omissions and misstatements,  or between connecting and being talked at.

Given that Kucinich's honesty and pro-peace postions are the antithesis to what one gets from Edwards or Obama, why would any progressive even consider backing Obama or Edwards?  Some so-called progressives want an easy win more than they want to save the world.   They would rather see the world destroyed by a Democrat than lose to a Republican.  These are the kind of people who flock to throw their support to phony peace candidates.  They like the ease of being in the Matrix, like the Joe Pantoliano character Cipher, who betrayed the heroes in the movie for the benefits he was promised.  When you see people who say they are progressive backing Edwards or Obama, you feel sad for them because you know that they care less about their principles than about winning.    Some thought Dean or Kerry were easy wins.  Neither of them is President because, when the real fight for the Presidency started on January 6, 2005, they both hid.  Kucinich fought for Kerry that day in Congress.  But who can win a fight for an absent leader?  If Dennis had been the nominee, the leader would have been present and we would have a Democrat in the White House.

Cynthia McKinney says that, when you get into Congress, they give you the keys to the file cabinet with all the information, but you aren't supposed to tell.  Her problem was she told.  In speaking truth, she incurred the wrath of Pelosi and everyone who couldn't understand why she put the interests of the people before the interests of the co-conspirators in a corporate-run government.  Edwards, Clinton, Obama, Biden, Dodd and Richardson were good players who didn't tell.  Instead they worked side by side with the Republicans to send jobs overseas, remove freedom and rights from Americans and create and perpetuate a war that is killing hundreds of thousands of innocent children and people while the oil companies loot the saving of hard-working Americans.   For that, they are the darlings of the media.  "Electable" is doublespeak for  "keeping the lies."  When someone questions whether Kucinich can win, they are really questioning whether he can be trusted to sell out his country as the other candidates have done.

Dennis Kucinich has always told the truth.   He has stood up for conscience and good leadership instead of continuing the lies and graft.  This terrifies the leadership in both parties more than anything.  It is well documented that Dick Cheney and George W. Bush have committed major felonies while in office.  However, to impeach would be to open the doors to the file cabinet and tell all.  This is why Nancy Pelosi says impeachment is off the table.  This is why she and the establishment fear Dennis.  He has a history of opening the file cabinet.  They hope the media won't notice who the real leader of the opposition to Bush is.

Dennis's power is in his willingness to risk all to do what is right.  In Cleveland, he risked his life and career to save the people hundreds of millions of dollars in utility costs.  When the truth came out, he was hailed as a hero.  This is part of the reason the people of Cleveland keep re-electing him with super majorities.  They love what he has done for them.

In Congress, Kucinich has introduced Congress's most courageous bills from holding the oil companies accountable for gouging the American people to abolishing nuclear weapons  to protecting the food supply to abolishing the death penalty to restoring freedom and rights to the American people to stopping global warming to bringing back paper ballots to creating a cabinet level Department of Peace and Non-Violence.  Other candidates may pretend to be on the people's side of the issues.  Only Kucinich has the record to prove it.

Kucinich is going further than introducing bills.  He is using the power of the subcommittee he chairs to investigate the abuses of corporations, government officials and others in ripping off the American people and to investigate the tainting of the food supply and the endangering of  the people of the United States.  Dennis is the only current member of Congress who has the courage to investigate what happened on 9/11.  Later this year, his committee will do a grounded, honest and open investigation of the subject.  Every other member of Congress has been frightened into silence and complicity in failing to check out the scientific facts.  The victims' families have demanded answers and only Kucinich is willing to do what it takes to find the answers for which they are looking.

Dennis Kucinich is the leader of the opposition to the war in Iran.  While corporations are offering millions to candidates who will say "yes" to free trade, Dennis plans to cancel NAFTA and withdraw from the WTO when he takes office.  He also plans to bring an end to the PATRIOT Act, an act opposed by virtually every American outside of the federal government.

Is it any wonder that Kucinich is the most feared and the most powerful man in Washington? The news media hopes that if they don't mention him, no one will find out he is the only Presidential candidate fighting for the people.  They hope that people won't hear the word "impeachment."

To become President, Kucinich needs people to believe in themselves and in their own power.  Anyone can vote for a corporate sell-out.  It takes a person of courage and conviction to vote for a hero.  When you decide whom you are going to vote for, you will be determining whether you are a coward or someone deserving of the right to vote.

My generation is backing Dennis Kucinich for President.  We deserve the vote but don't have it.  Does your generation deserve the vote?  We'll find out on election day.

Copyright 2007 by Natasha H. All rights reserved.