Catching Up With A Loser: Dennis Kucinich
Join former United States Senate Pages Dylan and Ethan Ris as they bring you the dish on not just the presidential race but all the exciting triumphs and disgraces inside, outside, and below the Beltway!
Catching Up With A Loser! If the Pages have learned one thing in Washington, it's that politics can be a lot like high school. Take, for instance, the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. You had your major jocks — Barack Obama (basketball team), Bill Richardson (baseball team), John Edwards (synchronized swimming). And then you had your nerds — Hillary Clinton (student government), Chris Dodd (Glee Club), Tom Vilsack (tech theater).
But no one was a bigger nerd than this week's Presidential Loser: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)! The Congressman from Cleveland was the president of the A/V Club and the Latin Society rolled up into one — and the bullies on the campaign trail never let him forget it. Kucinich was picked on mercilessly for his uber-dork attributes, including:
* Adamant veganism.
* Destruction of Cleveland as Boy Mayor in the 1970's.
It also did not help that Kucinich (though 61 years old) had still not hit puberty, and that his most prominent endorsement was from a J.R.R. Tolkien character. Still he pressed on, and with good reason. After all, his 2004 presidential run garnered him 67 delegates and a foxy new wife 31 years his junior!
But like so many other high schoolers, Kucinich hit the sophomore slump in his second run for the White House. Having ceded the "liberal populist" vote to John Edwards Version 2.0 and the "hilarious prank vote" to newcomer Mike Gravel, the Ohio Congressman had to drop out of the race on January 24, 2008. Kucinich is now back on the job in Washington, occupied with impeaching George W. Bush and protecting outer space for future generations of Star Wars collectibles!
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I hear that kucinich's voice has finally started to deepen
But you have to admit, dude has the HOTTEST wife. And she has a tongue piercing, bonus.
awww be nice to kucinich! i really admire him for working to impeach bush and for being an incredibly awesome liberal.
Good stuff. We're laughing with you Dennis, not at you.
I don't know where you got the idea that Mayor Kucinich destroyed Cleveland (perhaps from the 'Plain Dealer'?). This is a slander that has been going on for decades….spread by the people who tried every trick in the book to take over the municipally owned power company.
Dennis Kucinich, at great political risk to himself, prevented the private corporate take-over of the city's electricity provider, thereby saving millions of dollars for the people of Cleveland–an action for which thousands of Cleveland's citizens were grateful (contrary to the claims that continue to be made by those involved in that attempt to acquire huge profits at the expense of Cleveland's taxpayers).
I suggest you consider the sources of these spurious accusations. As we so often see in the political and corporate worlds, libel takes on a life of its own.
Damn, guess we need to start electing a lot more nerds.
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Damn, guess we need to start electing a lot more nerds.
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Hey…wouldn't hurt
Kucinich is simply the best.
George W. Bush’s sentence-by-sentence speaking skills are deteriorating. Apparently, this may be due to a mental illness called “presenile dementia.” Bush may or may not be secretly still drinking heavily. Bush suffers from narcissism and megalomania. Moreover, Bush has been arrested three times. Bush was arrested for disorderly conduct. Bush was arrested for stealing. Bush was also arrested for a serious crime—driving under the influence of alcohol. There are reasons to believe that Bush suffers from a learning disability. Bush’s learning disability would explain a lot of things. All in all, Bush is a severely mentally ill individual. Bush is not fit to be the president of the United States.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
HELLO THERE !!!! IM HUNGRY…
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