[lbo-talk] Re: perot vs nader (or, naderphobia continued?)

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Sat May 1 08:09:59 PDT 2004



> Problem is, Kucinich is kind of a goofball.
>
> Doug

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/139/story_13914.html 'This Conversation With You is a Meditation' Interview with presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, a New Age vegan Catholic.

"After I lost the [mayoral] election in Cleveland in 1979, I moved to California for a while. I actually remember walking in the area around L.A. known as MacArthur Park, and I was thinking of that song and thinking of the lyrics where they talk about 'Someone left the cake out in the rain. It took so long to make it.' And it goes on, raising the question of whether I'll ever have that recipe again." -- Kucinich http://www.realchange.org/kucinich.htm

Heh, Richard Harris!
> ...Other policy positions of his get a bit "out there" as well. In 2001,
> he introduced a bill to ban space-based and other exotic weapons,
> including "radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or
> other energies . . . for the purpose of information war, mood management,
> or mind control of such populations."

Included in the ban were "chemtrails," supposed airplane emissions that change the weather or cause rashes in schoolkids, if you listen to the Art Bell radio show anyway. Chemtrails were removed in a revised draft of the bill. "I'm not into that," Kucinich told The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Really? But Kucinich was the legislation's sole author.

As snide as I'd like to be, I can't improve on Kucinich's own mysticism, so here's some more from the article in New Connexion magazine: "In our soul's Magnificent, we become conscious of the cosmos within us. We hear the music of peace, we hear the music of cooperation, we hear music of love. In our soul's forgetting, we become unconscious of our cosmic birthright, blighted with disharmony, disunity, torn asunder from the stars in a disaster ..."

http://www.newconnexion.net/article/09-02/kucinich.html Rep. Dennis Kucinich


>From his talk at the Praxis Peace Institute Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
on June 9, 2002

As a Congressman, he amassed one of the most anti-abortion voting records in Congress, one especially unusual for a Democrat. Fair enough, Kucinich was raised Catholic. He voted to criminalize partial birth abortions, to deny American servicewoman the right even to pay for their own abortions overseas, to prevent Washington, D.C. from funding abortions for poor women with nonfederal dollars, against research on RU-486, even against health coverage of basic contraception for federal employees. In 1996 he told Planned Parenthood that he did not support the substance of Roe v. Wade. He received a a 95 percent position rating from the National Right to Life Committee, versus 10 percent from Planned Parenthood and 0 percent from NARAL.

-- Michael Pugliese



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