Posted on 12/28/2003 5:36:41 AM PST by billorites
NASHUA Rep. Dennis Kucinich spoke yesterday of the fear paralyzing America under the Bush administration, a message delivered with a little help from a man sporting baggy pants and a handlebar mustache.
The Democratic Presidential candidate joined a celebrity supporter, street clown and physician Hunter Patch Adams, at a Nashua campaign stop yesterday, each taking shots at the Bush administrations national security efforts.
Kucinich blamed the administration for spreading fear this holiday season when it raised the countrys terror alert from elevated to high last week.
Were back to duct tape and plastic, Kucinich said, conjuring an image from last February when Homeland Security officials advised Americans to stock their home with emergency supplies during a heightened security alert.
Were getting lulled into a false sense of insecurity, he told the crowd, which included several dozen supporters and undecided voters.
Nashua couple Tim DesClos and Victoria Tane offered their home at 23 Auburn St. for the event.
Kucinich said the administration used fear to bring the country to war in Iraq and to garner support for the Patriot Act, the anti-terrorism bill passed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Now, he said, this government feels free to inject it into the holiday season.
This is the time to put an end to fear. Thats what my candidacy is about: the end of fear and the beginning of hope, he said.
Adams, who arrived in tie-dyed eye glasses and long silver hair streaked with blue, also spoke of fear.
The founder and director of the Gesundheit Institute, a free health facility in West Virginia, made several appearances around the state yesterday on behalf of Kucinich out of intense concern and discomfort for this horrible government, he said.
He called Kunich a love candidate, and dismissed the notion that such a title should be a stigma.
The love candidate might not sound strong enough to some who seek a President who is tough on national security, he said. Yet I know it is the strongest thing there is.
Adams endorsed Kucinichs plan to create a federal Department of Peace and cheered his support for universal single-payer healthcare.
Kucinich called healthcare the most significant domestic issue facing the country, and criticized former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean for not going far enough in his support of health care reform.
Hes a doctor. He ought to know better, Kucinich said.
Kucinich also pitched his strategy to remove U.S. forces from Iraq, which would call on the United Nations to take over control of Iraqs oil resources and bear responsibility for handing out business contracts there.
He pointed to a news clipping on General Electric, the manufacturing and communications conglomerate that said this week it expects large profits from its contributions to the Iraqi reconstruction effort. GE owns the NBC, CNBC and MSNBC television networks.
When the media is also involved in defense contracts, were in trouble, Kucinich said. He promised if elected to ensure all media companies divest of any defense contracts.
Kucinich described himself as the only Democrat with a strategy for removing U.S. troops from Iraq. The distinction won him praise from Merrimack resident Janis Cosby, whose son-in-law, David Voight, was recently mobilized with the New Hampshire National Guard for a mission in Iraq.
Hes fine, but were scared. I just want to skip the heck out of there, Cosby said. I dont know if we belonged there anyway.
Let's see, I count two clowns in this story!!
IDIOT!
Several dozen is a crowd?
Yesterday we got a generic holiday card from some woman (Kathy Turner) in Hawaii with a handwritten letter explaining how she was totally convinced that Kucinich would be the savior of America (universal single payer health care, environmental protection, educational reforms, save social security, dept of peace) and all we needed to do was read the enclosed speech ("A Prayer for America") to become converts too. I have to wonder how we got on the mailing list. Obviously there's something amiss in his outreach department. Oh yeah, the artwork on the front of the card was a (snow) flake. Fitting.
Yesterday we got a generic holiday card from some woman (Kathy Turner) in Hawaii with a handwritten letter explaining how she was totally convinced that Kucinich would be the savior of America (universal single payer health care, environmental protection, educational reforms, save social security, dept of peace) and all we needed to do was read the enclosed speech ("A Prayer for America") to become converts too. I have to wonder how we got on the mailing list. Obviously there's something amiss in his outreach department. Oh yeah, the artwork on the front of the card was a (snow) flake. Fitting.
This little shrew of a man is way over his head when he picks up a razor!
Dean leads the pack!
The living room was so packed that some had to stand in the adjoining master bedroom.
The rally broke up when both pizzas were devoured.
G
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