Dennis Kucinch

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Looks like the mother of skunkwork's avatar.

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All I know is that his wife is a hawt. I saw her on TV CSPAN today. We should have a thread dedicated to her awesomeness.

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What do you think his secret is?

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Being a congressman that doesn't kowtow to corporate interests and supports things like environmentalism, social freedoms and "helping" the poor. Your pick of hot babes follows.

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On a different note, if RP were to win the nomination, I have a strong hunch that Kucinich would be his running mate. I've been thinking this for a few weeks and figured I might as well post it so I can say I was right in case it happens.

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Having grown up in Cleveland and witnessing the start of his political career I find this to be almost laughable:

Kucinich used divisive politics in early years, politicians say

Washington - As a presidential candidate at the dawn of the 21st century, Dennis Kucinich says he wants to unite the nation behind peace.

But longtime Cleveland politicians and political advisers say that when civil rights still divided Cleveland during the 1970s, Kucinich got some of his first toeholds in local politics by exploiting the city's racial prejudices. They say that while he courted white, ethnic voters on the city's West Side, he vilified black politicians, attacked their white colleagues as puppets and opposed busing for school integration.

This is all true. He was the chief advisary and most vocal critic of Carl Stokes. Here's what I find funny, the rationalization of his appeal to racism. Cleveland had more than it's share of segrated neighborhoods including the ones that Dennis the Menace represented.

"It doesn't mean he was a racist. It means he played to the fears of constituents who might not - how shall I put this mildly - hold diversity near and dear to their hearts," says Powell Caesar, a Cleveland public-relations and political counselor long active in civil-rights issues.


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Friends and former enemies alike say the Democratic congressman and presidential aspirant was never a bigot. But they say he took political stands and circulated campaign literature during the 1970s that played on white voters' intolerance. They also say he long ago abandoned those tactics.

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Joseph Tegreene, a Cleveland lawyer and former Kucinich finance director at City Hall, says it is unfair to "zero in on Kucinich because he was ethnic and he lived on the near West Side, and not focus on other people as well who were operating in that environment."

"The truth," says Tegreene, "is that anyone who is familiar with the politics of the time . . . knows that racial issues permeated politics. And while that's unfortunate, and it's something we look back on with a bit of shame, the fact is racial aspects permeated urban politics throughout America. And Cleveland was no exception."



Excuses and rationalizations. In other words he was elected for appealing to bigots. He grew up in the same neighborhoods that they did and espoused the same views they did. He was there man in city hall. It's mind boggling to me that this guy has turned out to be a bastion of the far left. If they would have only seen Dennis back in the day. I guess people change as Robert Byrd was a former member of the clan but it sure seems to me that the media and such are much more tolerant of Democrats that make these changes than Republicans.

Kucinich maintains race never played a role in his campaigns. "They were always about issues, they were always about principles," he says.

Total BS.

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On a different note, if RP were to win the nomination, I have a strong hunch that Kucinich would be his running mate. I've been thinking this for a few weeks and figured I might as well post it so I can say I was right in case it happens.

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That would be nutty as hell. Pretty sure Ron wouldn't piss off the Republicans that much though.

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On a different note, if RP were to win the nomination, I have a strong hunch that Kucinich would be his running mate. I've been thinking this for a few weeks and figured I might as well post it so I can say I was right in case it happens.

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There is absolutely no way this would happen. Just about the only thing he and Ron have in common is being against war in the middle east.

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She's his third wife and Kucinich is Roman Catholic. The church allows divorces now?

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On a different note, if RP were to win the nomination, I have a strong hunch that Kucinich would be his running mate. I've been thinking this for a few weeks and figured I might as well post it so I can say I was right in case it happens.

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There is absolutely no way this would happen. Just about the only thing he and Ron have in common is being against war in the middle east.

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That's why it will be so brilliant when it happens. Does any politician agree with Paul on much of anything anyways? Kucinich talks about ending the executive abuse of the Constitution, and is also staunchly anti-war and has the same anti-establishment flair to him.

So Paul can get away with being true to the heart of his message, while also dragging in someone who can play a sort of "glue" for voters who are totally afraid Paul will abolish every government program.

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On a different note, if RP were to win the nomination, I have a strong hunch that Kucinich would be his running mate. I've been thinking this for a few weeks and figured I might as well post it so I can say I was right in case it happens.

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There is absolutely no way this would happen. Just about the only thing he and Ron have in common is being against war in the middle east.

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That's why it will be so brilliant when it happens. Does any politician agree with Paul on much of anything anyways? Kucinich talks about ending the executive abuse of the Constitution, and is also staunchly anti-war and has the same anti-establishment flair to him.

So Paul can get away with being true to the heart of his message, while also dragging in someone who can play a sort of "glue" for voters who are totally afraid Paul will abolish every government program.

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Dude...This won't happen if RP wins the nom. I'll make a friendly wager on it? And I mean friendly, like 20 bucks or something.