Head-Spinning Political Shit!

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Originally Posted by iamkeri1

[B][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3]Dennis Kucinich is a personal hero of mine and has been since he was the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio where my parents lived at that time. I do not find him unrealistic. To me he is a perfect example of a good old fashioned knee-jerk liberal. Also He is fiscally responsible.

I don't find him generically unrealistic, simply unrealistic on foreign policy (and then only in certain areas, I agree with him, for instance, on Kyoto). He seems, to my mind, to take the opposite position that some prominent conservatives do that also drives me nuts.

Some conservatives treat other international actors as if they are obliged to be insane or stupid or both and thus make of them cartoon villains. Some liberals treat other international actors as if they were nothing more than misunderstood lambs who, if not for either the United States or Western civilization, would be pacifists and only even know of violence because it has been imposed on them by the US and/or the West. Both are wrong and I find Kucinich to be indicative of the latter.

This is not to say he was wrong on Iraq (he obviously wasn't) merely to say that I do not find him credible on foreign policy. Domestically, I rather like Kucinich and I’m sure he was a fine mayor and that he does a good job for the citizens of his district. That doesn't mean I would vote for him for President, I wouldn't. In fact, I would want to make sure he didn't get the nomination just as I'm sure that even now there are people in the GOP who hope that Sarah Palin doesn't get their nomination.

Cheers
Aj