By:
Logan Murphy on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 5:30 PM - PDT
The most outstanding remarks early on in the forum came from Congressman Dennis Kucinich. The question was on China and whether they should be considered a friend or foe. Kucinich brought the house down with his comments, even the other candidates couldn’t hold back. Take a look…
Filed Under: Campaigns/Elections, Countdown/Keith Olbermann, Debates, Democratic Party, Dennis Kucinich, Election 08, MSNBC
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Now, that’s what a homerun looks like, kids.
Aw, second.
That was a good one.
Kucinich has done great today. Also, I am sooooo proud that the Democrats had this forum in front of real people with real issues and took their questions directly. They’ve done this at least twice with the Youtube debate and this forum. I’d like to see how repugs discuss healthcare and underfunded pensions.
That’s why I’m supporting Kucinich, I don’t care if no one thinks he can win.
nonbeliever @ 3:
Does it matter what they say? They just make shit up and their people eat it up.
I love Dennis Kucinich, sadly though, he is dismissed as a third tier contender/candidate.
Dennis Kucinich is the best hope our nation has.
ALSO he has won an issues poll, answer 24 questions & you will see who is your best candidate:
with 90,000 responses his stand on issues are the as 55% of Americans!
http://www.dehp.net/candidate/
It is interesting that the Democratic candidates are offering a future and a plan to make this country great again. While the Republicans just scare Americans and offer just fear. I love to hear the response the Republicans to the man who lost his health insurance when his company went bankrupt. This what real Americans are facing today, the Republicans have know clue ,and they do not care.
oh my goodness.
chris matthews is unyieldingly vacuous.
if you ask me….I think Kucunich did the best….I really liked Richardson’s idea about all Vets getting health care anywhere,anytime….The Rest did very well…all in all..it was a good start…Edwards did well too.
Hillary stumbled badly, but Chris Matthews is acting as if she hit a homerun.
Their internal response, not the one they would ever actually verbally express, but their actual instinctive thought response, is that the person in question must be a failure and a loser, and its his own fault hes unemployed and his company shouldn’t have been such a failure that it went bankrupt. Admitting anything else to themselves would force them to confront the idea that a free market economy is not the end-all be-all solution to all of the world’s problems.
Thanks for featuring Kucinich C&L!
Kucinich is the only one I can listen to without cringing.
Liberal Journal @ 4:
You & me both!! From the moment I found out who he was, what he stood for and what he has done… he’s been the candidate for me!
Jay_M @ 7:
Unfortunately he is only popular among the internet population and we do not yet outnumber the typical American moron.
Cythraul @ 13:
That is the response all the talking heads on the right give , that the guy was a failure, and he made bad decision. They really do not care about real Americans. But the Republicans will never take questions from regular people like those at this debate. If they did they show their true colors, they do not care about real Americans.
actually, Markos of dailykos.com is another moron who loves to mock kucinich
crazy train @ 6:
What gets me is that he has been dismissed by liberal blogs such as the Huffington Post.
I don’t understand it.
I’m encouraged by C&L posting this Kucinich moment.
Maybe it will change things.
I voted for him in 04′, and it looks like I’ll vote for him again this time around.
LOVE IT!
Damn Dennis!
I lived in the same near westside neighborhood as Dennis Kucinich. I believe he is 1 or 2 years older than me. I am backing him 1005 win or lose. He is the workingmans best hope. I will donate to his campaign again this year and I hope a bunch of c&l Bloggers can do the same.
I rarely gave Kucinich a 2nd thought before tonight…boy has that changed!!! I AM GOING TO VOTE KUCINICH DOWN THE LINE BABY!!!
Markos of dailykos.com is another moron who loves to mock kucinich
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see i never read this morons blog! and thats probably why some ppl do not know of dennis.
shame. the mans cutting off his nose to spite his face. Markos who?
AnnCoultersMoustache @ 5:
It’d be fun to watch them try to answer a real issue with a typical conservative idiot response before an audience as lively as this one. They’d get booed off the stage.
Railden @ 18:
That’s because everyone knows by the Media reporting that the only two candidates that WILL win anything are Hillary and Obama. Nobody else matters if they don’t receive the nomination, and regardless what the “grassroots” thinks, the one with the most media attention/money wins. I know it sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it is true. Been there, seen that. Many, many times. The best candidate and most popular rarely wins.
vivek, the tool shed called, your missing!
mudshark @ 10:
IIRC, Richardson is also a Vietnam vet. I never hear anyone mention that. It is a great selling point when compared to whomever gets the RNC nomination.
Kucinich and Paul speaking the TRUTH to those who only think they are powerful. YEWEH BLESS AMERICA.
Unfortunately, these two would be lucky to win the ‘local dog catcher’ race but, being from Ohio and Texas respectively, allows for good government to surface somewhere in this God forsaken country.
NChom, follow the money…
Too bad it has already been decreed that Dennis is not a serious candidate.
Kucinich/Paul 2008
Isome @ 14:
Dennis always does this- the guy is a trouper and is right on the money for every issue that A Real Democrat SHOULD.
Gotta love him. If only he were electable. But, we don’t have a real democracy, so we can only elect people who the big corps control.
Kucinich and Paul should share the Independent Ticket
bones @ 29:
Exactly, but it sure is frustrating when people still back the party and talk like they have any influence whatsoever. Like I said, you get to vote for people CHOSEN for you to vote for. You don’t have a choice. Not sure how people consider that democracy.
http://kucinich.house.gov/Biography/
Dave @ 31:
Get a clue. Ron Paul is a deadbeat. He’s the furtherest thing from Kucinich that anyone could even imagine. Kucinich wants the government to work for people. Paul wants to get rid of the government all together.
Dirty Hippie Blogger @ 28:
The problem with that statement is that one of ‘em- not Kucinich- only tells half-truths. The more ya dig into the other guy’s message, the more ya uncover the similarities to Ayn Rand.
kaT-
“furtherest”.
I like it! :)
Dennis is the Menace to Republican free-trade spin
Eric & Dave-
Stop it! Stop it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYDwvS9nPCk
kaT @ 37:
Thank you!! Paul is right about the war but I disagree with him just about everything else. No way that libertarian gets my vote.
If Hillary win the Dems Nomination They will Lose Horribly. That is why Tweety is pushing for her so hard.
Kucinich has been making alot of progress lately. However he scares the shit out of the establishment and they will try very hard to bury him. I hope they fail.
You know what I REALLY wish Crooks and Liars would do when they have these video posts…
I Really wish they would post a written version for those of us that still have dialup and an old dilapidated computer because we cannot afford (thank you Bush) anything else.
What the hell did he say?
It would take longer to download the video than it would take for me to grow another gray hair! Inquiring minds want to know…
Andy K @ 41:
you called it yesterday Andy…the trolls for he who has no name are coming out in abundance……ya know…he who has no name is going after all the fleeing repub votes,those who have left and those who are going to leave.The repug base has to try something to pull votes away from the left….all my freinds who are repub say they are definitly not voting repug this time around…….that must scare the holy living ….. out of them.
Thanks C&L for posting this. As is evident by the posts above, most true liberals now know that Kucinich is the only real hope for change this country has. He is also the only card-carrying union member on that stage. If anyone would like to support Kucinich further, please visit The 35 Percenters and subscribe to our channel on YouTube. If Crooks and Liars continues to inform the blogosphere about Kucinich and if The 35 Percents are able to bring that same kind of awareness to the YouTube community, then the guy just might stand a chance. We need to do all we can to counter the efforts of the mainstream media to edge true progress out of the public discourse.
No one but Kucinich in ‘08
Dennis Kucinich was great as Obama. I am a little taken off that MSNBC give it all to Hillary? As an independent I cannot vote for a party, I do not worry about that because we did throw all the repubs out.
Today in Democracy now was great.
“Freedom Next Time: Filmmaker & Journalist John Pilger on Propaganda, the Press, Censorship and Resisting the American Empire.”
http://www.democracynow.org/ar...../07/130258
Don’t miss it I did taped it.
Way to go Dennis, that was awesome. With that he just won my vote in the primaries.
Railden @ 18:
I hear that. On DK he is trashed repeatedly. I don’t base my decision on anything from any blog, but reading said blogs does give you a different perspective. In the end though, we should do what we believe is right.
Bryan @ 44:
Quite often there is a transcript attached. But when time is of the essence(and Logan got this one posted pretty quickly), the transcript goes out the window.
I bet if ya write to C&L and say really nice things about the Yankees, Amato can get the post updated to include a transcript.
kaT,
What is so wrong with (as you put it) “get rid of the government all together.”?