Reply #26: as one who voted for Kucinich in the last election

[GreenArrow]

I sadly agree that you are right. Kucinich wasn't a factor in the last set of primaries, other than having Dean and to a lesser degree, Edwards, co-opting his (and Sharpton') rhetoric. He had no money, and got virtually no face media time, and when he did, it was ususally derisory. He couldn't even parlay his few delegates into an anti-war platform at the National Convention, even though 95 percent of ALL delegates were in favor of such a platform.

Even sadder is that Kucinich has been on the right side of virtually every important issue over the last six years, and then, before it was popular or expedient to do so. He's ahead of the game, and as the saying goes, a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. The fact that the American public would forgo voting for someone who has correctly analyzed the issues, and who hasn't fed them an unending stream of bullshit, doesn't speak particularly highly of the collective judgement of the country, which apparently prefers greasily venal corporate flacks and and the easy promises of puffed up snake-oil salesmen.