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[thom1102]

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Great, you can cut and paste a stock campaign piece off his website. I wanted you to explain to me personally how you think he can sell a message to the American people that the majority don't want?

"As President, I'll make sure that workers' rights are enshrined in a Workers' White House. As President, I'll issue an executive order which will say that anyone who gets a federal contract will have to provide that when 50% of the workers sign up for a union, there's an automatic union. As President, I'll set aside those provisions of Taft-Harley which attack the right to organize. As President (with a 100% AFSCME voting record, I might add), one of my first acts in office -- recognizing how trade has devastated so many towns around Iowa and the nation -- will be to cancel NAFTA and the WTO.

Bush is going to have two hundred million dollars, plus tons of pac money from big business to paint Kucinich as a communist based on this message alone. The majority of Americans think NAFTA and the WTO are a-okay, because the media tells them so.

"On the other side of the spectrum, no other candidate can attract disaffected voters, 3rd party voters and Ralph Nader supporters to the Democratic column like Kucinich. Across the country, Nader 2000 voters and Green Party sympathizers are joining his campaign, as are other 3rd party supporters."

Like those who are members of Moveon.org? The place where Dean beat Kucinich nearly 2 to 1?

"Speaking to more than 1200 progressive leaders and activists in civil rights, labor, feminism, peace and the environment at the "Take Back America" conference in D.C. yesterday, Kucinich "electrified" the crowd with a "spell-binding speech." Here's a description from Salon, whose sub-headline reported, "Kucinich's Bush roasting gets the biggest cheers":

"The most impassioned applause of the day was reserved for Kucinich. Introduced by Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America, as 'the only vegan in Congress,' Kucinich took the stage to John Lennon's 'Imagine' and proceeded to conjure the heyday of American progressivism by promising a new version of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Project Administration. 'We're gonna rebuild America's cities and we're gonna do it with America's steel'... Medicare for all, money pulled out of the Pentagon budget to pay for schools and other domestic programs, and 'total nuclear disarmament.' He spoke to the crowd's fury over the war in Iraq, getting a screaming standing ovation when he cried: 'This war was wrong! This war was fraudulent! We must expose this administration.'"

70,000 people came out for Dean at his announcement. 5,000 + in Burlington VT alone. Makes 1200, seem a little small, don't you think?

Promising to get rid of all our nukes, makes it sound like he is going to give away the whole store with his budget cuts. Not smart at a time when the average Joe is worried more than anytime since the cold war about National Security. His reference to "American Steel" on the same day as a ruling from the WTO against American tariffs for the steel industry shows his contempt for overseas markets (where many of our remaining manufacturing jobs create products for export, jeopardizing even more American Union jobs)

Still comes off as un-electable to the moderate mainstream. You know, those people we need to win the election?