it's a shame that Kucinich doesn't have a chance.....with the environmental issues we are facing, we really need someone as dedicated and radical as this. I don't think many people really understand the urgency and complexity of the problems we are faced with but I think he has a good grasp on it. the window of opportunity we have to avert potential disaster is closing and we have to act now.

I just wanted to say, what a strange society we live in that views like these expressed by Dennis Kucinich (promoting sustainability and peace) are considered outlandish or extreme. If only more people shared his vision we could actually make positive changes. And, now, alas, back to reality....

of all these folk who, while applauding DK's positions on the issues, bemoan the "fact" that he's "unelectable". ..."doesn't have a chance."??? ...."back to reality."???? Here's something to chew on: If these good people, who seem to comprise a large percentage of the populace, would support his candidacy and vote for him in the primaries, then Voilà! Dennis becomes electable!

You have to admire him for his courage in stating his views and for not saying what people want to hear. Courage (some would call it chutzpah) is about all he has going for him though. Well, that and a tiny minority of starry-eyed, ill-informed, drugged out dreamers.

He plans to tear down everything that has been accomplished by Americans for two centuries and replace it with some weirdo commune where we all freeze together in the dark eating grass while we wait for the "peaceful" Muslims to run us over. Now that`s leadership for America.

Get the hook and drag this turkey off the stage.

Oh my God, you're right! How could I have been so blind? Your sober assessment and irrefutable facts have made me see the light! Sign me up! I want to join you and the other 25% of Americans who are the true patriots. Let's get on with it! Torture those prisoners! Let's start a few more illegal, preemptive wars! The Constitution? Hell, as our Great Leader once said, "It's just a piece of paper". Health care for all? Screw that! What am I, my brother's keeper? Imagine! I once even called our courageous infallible God-appointed honest-as-the-day-is-long man-of-faith President an ignorant lying cowardly evil sociopath! Will you ever forgive me?....

I support this vision.

A year ago I would have dismissed Kucinich as a looney. I favored one of the serious candidates like Obama or Edwards.

Now, call me crazy, but Kucinich is the only candidate who actually makes sense.

Sure he doesn't mumble the serious platitudes that the serious candidates love to mumble, but that has some how changed from being a bad thing to being the only sane thing a candidate can do.

He's doomed... but hey, we are all doomed, so what so bad about "doomed"? He IS looney... but you know what, looney is the new sane. He will never be President, but hey, with my views I'm never gonna be President either. I can vote for a serious candidate I suppose... but I live in one of the last states in the Union to vote, so my vote is utterly meaningless. I'm thinkin' I may just cast my lot with Kucinich. Call it a vote for lonely prophet who is speaking the truth... a doomed quest to be sure, but you know what? Obama or Clinton will be owned lock stock and barrel by the big corporate interests. They are less and less looking like a serious alternative the Repbulican mafia system. As for Edwards, I don't know. Sinking fast anyway, won't make any difference by the time my state gets around to vote.

Kucinich (like Al Gore) is talking about the one problem that really matters and that is the future of the Planet Earth and its climate. Who gives a damn about ANYTHING else? I don't think I do anymore. Screw being sensible and practical. Time to vote for truth. All sensible and practical are gonna get us is another corporate machine politician anyway.

... years ago when I still lived in Cleveland, before I moved out to the west coast for college.

And you know what? He was a very reasonable - if driven - fellow. He liked to talk about what he wanted to do and he dreamed big. Sometimes he made it, sometimes he didn't, and although he tried to learn from his mistakes he wouldn't let failure bring him down. He was utterly undeterred by the local thugs trying to push him around.

I've since seen him speak and I don't think he's changed that much. A little more seasoned perhaps. He's always struck me as a guy who's pretty much fearless. I always get the feeling that if/when the shit hits the fan, he really would be there helping with shovels while other dems (and of course the GOP) would be running for the hills. There's not a whole lot I like about the Midwest in general or Cleveland in particular, but the remnants of we're-going-to-fix-this-so-get-the-hell-out-of-our-way still exist and Kucinich has that.

People may not find him charismatic. I am SO over the whole "I want to be able to have a beer with my president" thing. I don't want a beer with my president, I want him to fix this shit, dammit!

Yeah, maybe no one will vote for him and we'll get the candidate we (or is that you?) deserve. Next time someone accuses me of hating America or some other dipshit thing, maybe I'll bring this up.

Let’s see now, DK is a loony because he thinks we can make it on much less energy than we are currently using without sitting in the dark freezing. How about we check in with the numbers? Bush has squandered approximately three Trillion dollars on his Iraq fiasco. That money could have bought and hooked up over one trillion watts of photovoltaic power (or a lot of other useful things). With one hundred million homes in the U.S. getting on average five hours of useful sunlight per day that works out to fifty kilowatt-hours per household per day. Consider that the average home in California uses about half that amount of electricity.

So, had DK been President these last seven years, we might be generating all of our daytime electricity by fully renewable means and had a bundle left over to either subsidize useful industries with or just convert to hydrogen for nondaylight energy needs. Add in wind and tidal sources and we can clearly close down every coal-fired power plant as well as the nuclear ones.

The only place he is not visionary is his refusal to acknowledge that we will eventually need to restrict people’s global-warming emissions with a carbon quota (as opposed to a carbon tax). Being rich enough to pay a carbon tax should not give one the right to destroy the ecosystem that sustains all life.