>On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>Appealing to the goddess or the creatures of the forest is loony and
>>marginalizing.
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>I'm not into that New Agey side of Kucinich, but I find it odd that you're
>taking those comments so literally. He was obviously speaking
>figuratively.
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I don't think anyone's taking those comments "literally" at all. It's
mostly revulsion over the fact that the Kucinich campaign would offer
this kind of sub-Beatrix Potter tripe as figurative speech, metaphor,
simile, or teaching story.