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Kucinich: Fear is paralyzing with Bush
Manchester Union Leader ^ | December 28, 2003 | Scott Brooks

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 administration’s national security efforts.

Kucinich blamed the administration for spreading fear this holiday season when it raised the country’s terror alert from elevated to high last week.

“We’re 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.

“We’re 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. That’s 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 Kucinich’s 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.

“He’s 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 Iraq’s 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, we’re 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.

“He’s fine, but we’re scared. I just want to skip the heck out of there,” Cosby said. “I don’t know if we belonged there anyway.”


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; kucinich
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1 posted on 12/28/2003 5:36:41 AM PST by billorites
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To: billorites
Where ever Quacks, kooks and weirdos are to be found, Kucinich will sniff them out.
2 posted on 12/28/2003 5:44:29 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: billorites
The Democratic Presidential candidate joined a celebrity supporter, street clown

Let's see, I count two clowns in this story!!

3 posted on 12/28/2003 5:47:32 AM PST by Elkiejg (Clintons have ruined America)
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To: billorites
He called Kunich a “love candidate,”

Yeah, baby!

4 posted on 12/28/2003 5:48:30 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: billorites
Fear grips America! I know it has been devestating in my area. The Malls are empty. The streets are empty. No one is out. Lights are off. It's fear, I tell you!
5 posted on 12/28/2003 5:48:56 AM PST by whereasandsoforth (tagged for migratory purposes only)
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To: billorites
He called Kunich a “love candidate,”

Yeah, baby!

6 posted on 12/28/2003 5:51:12 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: billorites
Dennis Kucinich gives new meaning to the words freedom and liberty; he is free and at liberty to make as big a horse's patootie of himself as he wants! “This is the time to put an end to fear. That’s what my candidacy is about: the end of fear and the beginning of hope,” he said. Ahhh, you have a real friend in OBL......

IDIOT!

7 posted on 12/28/2003 5:58:59 AM PST by yoe (Little Tommy Daschle/tantrum throwing little Gen. Clark=farts in a skittle.....)
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To: billorites
...he told the crowd, which included several dozen supporters and undecided voters.

Several dozen is a crowd?

8 posted on 12/28/2003 6:15:23 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: yoe
It must be the fear that is forcing us to be more productive. We must be shaking in our boot when the stock market rebounded. I shocked we can even lift a finger withi all this fear going on.... The left is losing it. When the sheeple can't get enough of J-Lo and Ben or the Britney/Madonna kiss we are far from fearing our future.
9 posted on 12/28/2003 6:19:37 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: whereasandsoforth
Yes fear is everywhere. There were only a billion people at WalMart yesterday instead of the usual billion and one.... LOL
10 posted on 12/28/2003 6:20:41 AM PST by buffyt (Howard Dean doesn't have a leg to stand on.... because he has BOTH FEET in his MOUTH!)
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To: billorites
how can anyone take this asshole seriously?
11 posted on 12/28/2003 6:20:48 AM PST by The Wizard (Saddamocrats are enemies of America, treasonous everytime they speak)
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To: whereasandsoforth
And the mall, you can't find a parking place there. Fear keeping shoppers away? ha ha ha LOL You are right!
12 posted on 12/28/2003 6:21:41 AM PST by buffyt (Howard Dean doesn't have a leg to stand on.... because he has BOTH FEET in his MOUTH!)
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To: The Wizard
how can anyone take this asshole seriously?

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.

13 posted on 12/28/2003 6:43:18 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: The Wizard
how can anyone take this asshole seriously?

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.

14 posted on 12/28/2003 6:51:03 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: billorites
It's scary to think that Kucinich almost makes Dean look mainstream.
15 posted on 12/28/2003 6:57:38 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: billorites
Denny-boy begins every day trembling before the mirror.

This little shrew of a man is way over his head when he picks up a razor!

16 posted on 12/28/2003 6:59:11 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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To: billorites
“This is the time to put an end to fear. That’s what my candidacy is about: the end of fear and the beginning of hope,” he said.

Oh no, not "hope" again......

OK - I say we bitch slap the first Demoncrat candidate who says "KEEP HOPE ALIVE!"
17 posted on 12/28/2003 7:01:34 AM PST by Zaxis (There's no ism like Coulterism!)
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To: yoe
It's an all out fight for the "idiot wing" of the Democrat Party.

Dean leads the pack!

18 posted on 12/28/2003 7:01:43 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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To: billorites
Of course there is fear...fear that one of these nine dwarves will be elected in place of President Bush.
19 posted on 12/28/2003 7:19:53 AM PST by stylin_geek (Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count)
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To: billorites
Nashua couple Tim DesClos and Victoria Tane offered their home at 23 Auburn St. for the event.

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

20 posted on 12/28/2003 7:23:55 AM PST by Vinnie
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