The Other Winner in Iowa Why That Result Should
be More Important to Democrats

post from Liberal College Kid on 04 January 2008 11:56:46 PM. © Liberal College Kid

Last nights historic election will be remembered for one reason: Obama. My intention here is not to demean him in any way, and the fact that the young voters came out like never before is also reassuring to me. However, there was another election last night in Iowa, one that seemingly no one [...]

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Bill Moyers Asks; Is Mainstream Media Counting
Kucinich Out

post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 04 January 2008 11:54:56 PM. © My Left Wing - Front Page

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Dennis Kucinich - The Real Democrat

copyright ? 2007 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org

On January 4, 2008, Public Broadcasting Services [PBS] Bill Moyers will discuss what most in the press barely acknowledge; the mainstream media is counting Dennis Kucinich out. Perhaps the truer statement is they do not let him in. Perchance, if we reflect on what has occurred throughout the Presidential campaign we might realize, the moguls who own the airwaves fear true change. They trust Ohio Congressman, Dennis Kucinich will actually work for the people, just as he has done throughout his career.>/div>
Corporate magnates do not want the country or the office of the President to be other than it is, profitable for them. The Big Wigs can control the other candidates, and they do. These tycoons have invested in the top tier candidates. Money, cash, checks flow to those who promote plans that allow Insurers, Pharmaceuticals, Defense Industrialists, and Private Investors to prosper. Dennis Kucinich and his proposed policies do not benefit the powerbrokers. Thus, he must be eliminated and indeed, he is.

In Iowa, the Des Moines Register would not allow the Presidential hopeful to take the stage. The American Association for Retired Persons also blocked his appearance. As we contemplate the number of times Dennis Kucinich was purposely excluded, we recognize the message we, the American people, receive is manipulated. The public does not have access to all the Presidential hopefuls. Only the aspirants financed by the Big Boys and Girls are afforded an opportunity to speak.

Granted, we may have had a glimpse of the extremely qualified Dennis Kucinich. However, when we did the time to view or listen to the voice of the people was extremely limited.

Pundits and political historians might express that Congressman Kucinich "delivers the Democratic message clarity and conviction" Presidential hopeful Kucinich might be far ahead in Progressive polls. Nevertheless, the potential President, Dennis Kucinich ultimately will be silenced at least on most radio and television stations.

On January 5, 2008, just prior to the New Hampshire primaries, the first actual ballot vote for President, ABC News will host another Democratic discussion, America will be able to hear and see the candidates, except for . . .

ABC News Has Excluded Kucinich, Gravel, and Others . . .
In an arbitrary decision that shakes our democracy to its very core, ABC News has set debate criteria that exclude Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, and Duncan Hunter from their Saturday debates. New Hampshire has a recent history of open debates. As a result of these exclusions the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper has decided not to co-sponsor the debate.

Many Americans will ask as the one true Progressive hopeful does . . .
"How can you have a debate if you don't have a voice to challenge all the others?"
~ Dennis Kucinich

On January 4, 2008, Bill Moyers offers a rare forum, a chance for the Congressman to speak. You may wish to tune in. Moyers offers this introduction.

The 2008 Election; Crashing the Parties?
Presidential nominee Dennis J. Kucinich is a sixth-term Democratic Congressman serving the 10th district of Ohio, which comprises much of western Cleveland and its adjoining suburbs.
First elected to the House of Representatives in 1996, he sits on the Education and Labor Committee and is chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. A member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Kucinich previously ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000 and 2004. Now more than ever, he sees a split in the Democratic constituency and the leaders to which each side is drawn, as he explains to Bill Moyers in his interview:
We have two cultures here. One which is the emerging culture of information technology that's Internet-based. And the other one is the more conventional TV technology which is coming to a clash. And I think they reflect some political trends in this country that maybe aren't getting too much attention. But they are gonna have an impact.

A short biography of the candidate is also available amidst the program information. As we peruse the list of associations, affiliations, and ponder what is important to Dennis Kucinich we get a sense of who the man is and why he relates more to the average American than he does to those who sponsor debates . . . or contribute to the other candidates campaigns.

Kucinich served twice as an official U.S. delegate to the U.N. Convention on Climate Change. In 2003, he received the Gandhi Peace Award from Promoting Enduring Peace. Additionally, he has been honored by the Cleveland AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, Friends of the Earth, the Salvation Army, the Human Rights Campaign, Public Citizen for his work in office.

If, upon reflection, you too are concerned by the fact that Americans no longer have a choice, that we can only hear the persons the powerbrokers tell us are viable, please express your distress. Click here to join us in flooding ABC with emails and phone calls demanding that all the candidates be included in the televised debates.

(You may also wish to speak to the exclusion of Ron Paul from a Republican debate hosted by Fox News. If so, please do. Click here if you wish to tell Fox what you think.)

Thank you for working to take our country back from the party bosses, big money, and corporate media,

Transcripts, Trials, Tribulations . . .

Crashing the Parties. Interview with Bill Moyers. Public Broadcasting Services. January 4, 2008
Kucinich Washington Post.
Democracy In Action. Independent Primary.com.
Transcripts. Crashing the Parties. Interview with Bill Moyers. Public Broadcasting Services. January 4, 2008

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Friday Political Stuff

post from The Liberal Doomsayer on 04 January 2008 11:47:00 PM. © The Liberal Doomsayer

I certainly don't support him as a candidate, but kudos to the Ron Paul people for taking snark to a whole new level (re: Rudy and his latest bogus campaign ad)...

...and speaking of campaign ads, this is just a reminder that John Edwards is sticking around - we have a ways to go.

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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

post from Daily Kos on 04 January 2008 11:45:45 PM. © Daily Kos

(Tonight's selections are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue Rangers. SusanG)

This evening's Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, Patriot Daily (mentoring blue jersey mom and plf515), jennyjem, ezdidit, YatPundit, Got A Grip and joyful, with watercarrier4diogenes at the editor's desk.

Tonight's diaries cover a variety of interesting issues not covered by the MSM with the kind of research, perspective and analysis we see here every day. A pity, isn't it?

In Jonathan Turley on Countdown: Torture Is Still a Crime, FWIW, reports on Keith Olbermann's interview with this Contitutional Law Professor. (vcmvo2)

Sylvester McMonkey McBean analyzes a Scientific American article on energy independence in Solar Energy by 2050: A Plan. (vcmvo2)

Robert Ullmann continues his reports from Kenya on the election turmoil in Will Kenya count the votes? (vcmvo2)

Goldy at HorsesAss reports that despite Washington State's highest in the nation minimum wage, business is thriving, in The Eight Buck Per Hour Double Per Buck Cheeseburger. (vcmvo2)

The success of racially integrated schools in Ossining, NY, is questioned by Forgiven in School Integration 2007; A Difficult Proposition. (YatPundit)

gmoke flashes us back to the 1970s and Carter's energy policies in 1973: Sorry, Out of Gas. (YatPundit)

In an interesting first diary, billd uses Joe Klein's latest gaffe as the basis for some dKos navel-gazing in Time and the Daily Kos. (YatPundit)

First-time diarist Chris Rodda details how H.Res.888 attempts to re-write US history in an effort to turn the USA into a Christian nation in Think the "Christmas resolution" was bad? Check Out H. Res. 888. (blue jersey mom and plf515)

When the religious right turns on one of its own, what happens next is Far From Heaven. blueness contemplates Huckabee's "fall from grace" with eloquent precision. (jennyjem and avila)

A 1968 Analogy is bart49's contemplation of Iowa caucus night 2008 in considerate analysis of a previous historical shift back in 1968. (jennyjem and avila)

In Rising CO2 Linked to Increased Mortality Rate: An Undeniable Truth, markthshark examines the first direct link between carbon dioxide emissions and death. (jennyjem and avila)

Avenging Angel ponders the Iowa Aftermath: Immigration the New GOP Wedge Issue for 2008. (joyful)

DrForbush takes a look back and shares the view from Four Years Later. (joyful)

va dare has Top Comments - 1.04.08 - One Day At A Time, Sweet Jaysus!.

Enjoy and please promote your own favorite diaries in this open thread.

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Overnight

post from Eschaton on 04 January 2008 11:39:00 PM. © Eschaton

Things Are What You Make Of Them [.mp3].

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Fox Propaganda

post from Eschaton on 04 January 2008 11:29:00 PM. © Eschaton

As is often the case, it goes without saying that if some other supposedly liberal (but not really) news network had done something similar - like, say, excluding candidate Joe Lieberman from a debate - that there would be much more media outrage. Howie?

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Obama, Biden: Clean Break with the Past

post from Connecting.the.Dots on 04 January 2008 11:14:00 PM. © Connecting.the.Dots

Joe Biden's campaign got off to a rocky start last February when he was pummeled for a "gaffe" in describing Barack Obama as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."

This week, Biden gave up his Presidential hopes as Obama achieved a storybook milestone in American racial history, a black man of blue politics winning a red state with almost all white voters.

In his apology for the remark, Biden had explained, "Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that the Democratic or Republican Party has produced at least since I've been around. And he's fresh. He's new. He's smart. He's insightful. And I really regret that some have taken totally out of context my use of the world 'clean.'"

Obama has proven to be all that and more, and his Iowa victory this week has dispelled any sense of unreality about the possibility that he could be elected the first African-American President this fall.

If he is, it would be smart and insightful of him to ask Joe Biden to be his Secretary of State.

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Stop It

There really are more important things than baseball.

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Late Night Music Club with Blood, Sweat, and
Tears

Fresh from the Older Sister Record Collection VaultBlood, Sweat & Tears ? ?Spinning Wheel?

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Late Night David Brooks: What the little people
don’t know about themselves

Blue Texan has already covered the political idiocy of David Brooks' post-Caucus column.I'd like to talk about his sociology.Those of you who follow Mr. Brooks already know that he has a smooth line in explaining how The Little People think, based, I[...]

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