Why are the two “minor” candidates (Dennis Kucinich & Mike Gravel) the only candidates exhibiting any testicular fortitude and common sense instead of the same old rhetoric? I use “minor” because that’s the classification the media gives them. They aren’t given the same time or respect as the others, amongst the candidates or the media, much in the way Dean got hammered for his “Iowa Scream.”
For a long time I have been an Obama fan, and I think it is wonderful that an African-American and a woman are front-runners for the presidency (and hey, it only took 200 years), but to be honest… I’m losing interest in the “mainstream” candidates. I am not a Clinton fan because of the fact that she pushed for universal healthcare and is now in their pocket, and while I admire Obama not taking lobbyist money and being a great speaker and all the other reasons people like him… I don’t think one can stand up and say “I was against the war all along” when he wasn’t even in a position to vote one way or the other and therefore can’t be held to the fire on something he said in a speech. Perhaps when actually voting, his opinion would have been different.
None of the debates sound much like debates at all until Kucinich gets a turn to speak. They sound like a bunch of old rich folks repeating themselves and stroking their own egos and occasionally each-other’s.
I want a real change. We heard nothing but good news for the last mid-term elections. We were told the Democrats were going to shake things up. They were going to bring the troops home from this unnecessary war. We’re still there. They were going to protect our privacy while ensuring our national security. They just gave the Bush administration everything it wanted with regards to wiretapping. At every chance they get, they roll over to the neocon agenda, and frankly I’m disgusted by it.
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