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Whilst painting yesterday afternoon after work, I was listening to C-SPAN radio (the local NPR station is having a fund drive and I can’t take their incessant whining about their stupid business plan) and heard the entirety of Dennis Kucinich’s official announcement. He seems like a decent enough chap, but my word he’s a loon. Without exaggeration, he’s to the left of Leonid Breznev. He wants to socialize virtually the entire economy and his foreign policy is slightly less hawkish than that of Switzerland. Granting that he has absolutely no chance of winning the nomination, he’s still rather scary.

John Hawkins has some choice quotes from and analysis of the speech.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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Yes and did you know that Communist PartyUSA favors Kucinich? Since he has the support of the communist party, I wouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole!

Jennifer Martinez sends

Posted by Jennifer Martinez | October 14, 2003 | 10:18 am | Permalink
 

(the local NPR station is having a fund drive and I can't take their incessant whining about their stupid business plan)

NPR now has a business plan? Begging and extortion letting them down?

Paul

Posted by Paul | October 14, 2003 | 10:47 am | Permalink
 

I caught the end of the speech on C-SPAN and was surprised not so much by it's content as the lackluster delivery. There was Kucinich tyraiding on about his immigrant grandfather and all America owes the common man while clearly reading from the paper in front of him. What should have been a passionate delivery was mitigated by excessive pauses to glance down at his notes. No doubt the speech sounded better-delivered on the radio (like the Nixon in his Kennedy debate), but clearly Kucinich isn't ready for the information age.

Posted by Nathan | October 14, 2003 | 10:49 am | Permalink
 

Their business plan is begging, apparently. Hoping that people will send them money because they're whining strikes me as an odd way to run a radio station, given that the advantages of donating are zero. Indeed, you have to listen to the annoying weeks of begging regardless.

Posted by James Joyner | October 14, 2003 | 10:50 am | Permalink
 

Where's his "immigrant grandfather" from, the USSR?

Jennifer Martinez sends

Posted by Jennifer Martinez | October 14, 2003 | 02:40 pm | Permalink
 

According to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, he's polling below Carole Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton!. What can Kucinich possibly be thinking. Even the most loony leftist can't possibly be that detached from reality.

Can they?

Posted by BTD Greg | October 14, 2003 | 07:10 pm | Permalink
 

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