I see three reasons:<br><ol><li>Kucinich's fervent, albeit unorthodox and New Agey, Catholicism informs every position he takes. He was solidly anti-abortion until 2002. This makes a large sector of the American left very nervous.
</li><li>He's also downright odd. The man precedes his public speeches with Tantric meditations. This makes another sector of the American left, smaller but with more money, even more nervous.</li><li>He has honest-to-God working-class revolutionary instincts. Unlike John Edwards, he hasn't forgotten his roots. This makes the smallest but wealthiest sector of the American left extremely nervous.
<br></li></ol><div><span class="gmail_quote">I've shaken hands with a few members of Congress, and Kucinich is one of only three (along with Cynthia McKinney and Connecticut's Chris Murphy, who had just been elected and not yet inaugurated) who didn't make me feel queasy. I wish America had a left capable of propelling him all the way, but needless to say, it doesn't.
<br><br>On 4/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">tfast</b> <<a href="mailto:tfast@yorku.ca">tfast@yorku.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Why is their not<br>any popular mobilization for him? Is There? Why not?</blockquote></div><br>