Our current commander in chief has "one on one's" with the Holy Ghost, and receives his bombing runs and targets from Jesus. As long as Kucinich's aliens don't tell him to take health care from our kids, lock up poor people, or bomb other countries, right now, I'll take the aliens.

This blog has had no coverage of Kucinich, who champions the issues that a great many Salon readers care about, even if they won't vote for him. And now this? A second hand story about something he allegedly said years ago about something that has no impact on public policy?

This is a hit piece. Why not only post about Whitewater when talking about Clinton? If I want coverage that tells me who to ridicule and who is "serious" I already have cable.

And I'll add that this sort of crap is just what Kucinich does not need from his "friends".

But then Salon doesn't seem to want a real change in American society, the sort of change that only a Kucinich or a Paul can bring.

Why pay any attention at all to anything Shirley MacLaine says? If I were Kucinich's media guy, I wouldn't answer either.

His staff can't even manage to get back to me about a simple bumpersticker.

That is the perfect description of Shirley Maclean. Kucinich too? I would not be surprised. Looking at the present Pres and the would be sucessors that description is quite appropriate.

Mitt Romney believes some wacky stuff. So do Huckabee and Brownback and...

somthing like 50% of people believe aliens have visited Earth, maybe this is a good demographic for Kucinich to go after.

Maybe the aliens will agree to take over for us in Iraq. I make this comment because everytime Kucinich is asked for his plan for Iraq, it is the U.S. gets out and other countries and the U.N. send in peace keepers. WHAT countries!?! What country would be stupid enough to do that? No one ever seems to follow up with "And if they won't?"

She was, in reality, speaking of one of George Bush's coke dreams where the roses were actually red poppies he was hydroponically growing at his Crawford "ranch". The balcony was really the back of his pickup truck and what he actually said was: "Wow! Look at them colors would ya Jeb! Let's nuke Iran, heh, heh."

But here back in his district nobody cares it's just "Dennis being Dennis." He's pricipled and he stands up for his district in a way that should be emulated as opposed to being mocked. He has been a consistent supporter of progressive causes and doesn't back down to anyone whether it's the boy king and his corporate allies or people in his own party who don't want to be seen as "soft on terrorism."

Dennis is Dennis this thing deserves a roll of the eyes and nothing more. But dennis is a consistent punching bag for everybody so have at it.

But in 2008 he'll carry his seat by his average of 63% to 37%and be part of a veto proff majority and we'll all be glad.

p.s. Maybe if the boy king had talked with an alien instead of having direct conversations with God himself maybe thinggs wouldn't be quite so f*cked up.

The easy snark is that this could explain a lot.

The reality is that it doesn't matter. And for those who complain that Kucinich is being ignored, it's time to face some facts:

1) He's being ignored in great numbers by the American voters.

2) Outside his own district, he barely reaches statistical significance.

3) The lack of press is a reflection of that fact, not the cause of it. If he led the Democratic field, with 50% preferring him, the press would be on him like the proverbial (insert cliche here).

Personally I think it's all bunk. But when PhD aerospace engineers tell me they saw something they can't explain I tend to believe they believe what they're saying.

Thanks a lot, Shirley MacLaine.

...As if Kucinich didn't have enough trouble being taken seriously.

Now If she said that he had a regularly scheduled, daily (two way) conversation with, say, Jesus...that would be just fine, I suppose.

jedimaster nailed it - we should be way more concerned with candidates who believe everything they learned from a book (loosely translated from it's original language) which no one seems to agree on the messages found therein anyway... and then choose to make policy decisions based on guidance from invisible friends. Hell, Nancy was rescheduling Ronnie's meetings based on psychic predictions. There's something to be scared of.

Dennis saw something he can't explain. It moved him. Fair enough. This is why our polititians are scared to death to be real, fallable, beautiful people: one false move and the press will pounce.

I once saw a "cabbit" in northern Minnesota. Clear as day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbit

Maybe he doesn't reach outside his district because even in "liberal" media he is only covered when he is being ridiculed. If he got the coverage Clinton did (with the same respect) he would be among the frontrunners. Alan Lloyd may be content to base his considerations on what Tim Grieve or Tim Russert tell him, but don't act as though the public's view on Kucinich is based on a fair evaluation of his views and policy priorities; that's Bush-level honesty.

Claim first hand experience with alien abductions. Keep away from the brown acid.

Maybe he doesn't reach outside his district because even in "liberal" media he is only covered when he is being ridiculed. If he got the coverage Clinton did (with the same respect) he would be among the frontrunners.

If he got numbers like Clinton does (disclosure: I am not a Clinton supporter) he would get coverage like Clinton does. The press is a trailing, not a leading, indicator.

And just to set you straight, on the off chance you are amenable to reason, I don't particularly care what either Tim tells me. I see a large number of info-sources in the course of a day, and am also capable of thought. And what I see is a guy who may have some interesting positions (I actually agree with a good number of them) who is not resonating with voters. Therefore, his candidacy is Quixotic, to say the least. One or two more and he can be the 21st Century's (Democratic) Harold Stassen.

Grow up, face reality, and learn something. Or not, as you choose...