Has anyone spoken to Dennis? We need a hero here.

[genius]

[MuseRider]

1. There have been several

posts about him and his ideas about the election but sadly I did not bookmark them. There was one just this morning about him and he said he had a couple of lawyers working on some things about the election. Wish I could remember, I read it right after waking up. If I run into it I will post the link. You know he is doing something, it would not be in his character to not be looking into this, at least in Ohio.

[goodhue]

2. Going Forward With Resolve

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Subject: Going Forward With Resolve
From: "Dennis Kucinich" <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, November 5, 2004 1:22 am
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Going Forward With Resolve

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Hi everyone, Dennis here. Welcome to part of my library. I've been doing a
lot of reading and thinking in these past 24 hours since we have seen the
outcome of the election - so different than what we had hoped for.

I have to admit, myself, to being surprised that John Kerry lost the
election. I did everything I could to try to make it possible for America
to take a new direction - even to the point of beginning my own
presidential candidacy almost two years ago.

All of us in the Kucinich campaign poured ourselves into John Kerry's
campaign so that America could make a new beginning - and I've heard from
so many of you around the country expressing great concern about this
outcome, and asking, "Where do we go from here?"

This is a critical moment, where everything we believe in is being
tested,
and everything we stand for and hope for remains on the line. George Bush
will have another four years in the White House. We can predict the
direction he'll take this country and the world.

But what we also need to be able to predict is what we shall do. What our
intention is for this country, the world, the role that we hope to play.
Because, certainly, the feelings of anger and even depression which
abound in so many of the circles that so many of us move in - despite
that anger and depression we have to see things as they are and move
beyond this moment to create some new possibilities in America.

Because, while George Bush is certainly going to have a lot to say about
what happens in the next four years, he's not the only one.

You, I and those with whom we've worked over the last few years have the
opportunity to participate in creating a whole new dialog in America and
the world. We may not have the kind of momentum we had hoped for, which
we hoped a Kerry victory would bring, but we do have our own courage -
and our own quality of heart - which will hold us in good stead in what
will surely be some very challenging times ahead.

I think we need to go through this period of grieving over the election,
and then we have to get ready to bring some closure and move on, and go
to a place of real action again, of real heart-centered action, of
willingness to take on the challenges which this administration is
bringing to our nation and the world.

We need to rededicate ourselves to working for peace. Not just further
empowering the anti-war movement, but to look at peace as a creative
endeavor, where we bring ourselves into working for peace in our
relationships, in our communities.

The Department of Peace becomes ever more imperative. And the eleven
states whose Democratic delegations took a strong stand in favor of a
Department of Peace will be focal points of all our efforts to get
congressional delegations to begin to sign on in support of this concept,
which is aimed at making non-violence an organizing principle in our
society. If there was ever a time when we needed that approach, it's now.


On health care: in many states across this country, new iniatives are
being aimed at the state level to help develop a kind of a universal
health care approach within a state. People in Oregon tried it a few
years ago and I think they're going to come back. There's a burgeoning
effort in the state of Ohio. We need to look and see what we can do to
promote health care in this country, and to get people organized around
it.

The environment: we know this administration is not going to be good for
the environment - but we also know that we have the opportunity to push
forward, at every level, development of alternative energies.

You know, we're looking at soaring natural gas prices in the next few
months. This gives us some leverage to get popular support for an effort
to develop energy alternatives. (As if we didn't need that - get that -
with the higher gas prices.) But we know with the oil companies having a
resurgence in political power with the re-election of George Bush, it
gives us also the ability to galvanize public support for the development
of alternative energy.

There'll be so many things that we can talk about in the days ahead. But I
just wanted to take a few moments of your time to remind you that, while
it would appear that so much was lost on election night, so much remains
for us to do. We have to be firm in our resolve. We have to remember the
commitments that brought us into this contest. That it wasn't just about
John Kerry - it was about us. It was about our hopes, our dreams, our
intentions to create a better nation and a better world. Those
commitments remain. They help to empower us daily.

So, let's grieve over the loss of this election, but let's come together
and realize that it's the unity that we have expressed over these last
few years which gives us real power to bring forth creative change. That,
even in this moment of seeming political darkness, we can find some light
- and that light is within each of us.

This isn't the first time in our nation's history that we've seen bitter
divisiveness - it was in 1865 in March that Abraham Lincoln faced a
nation that was horribly divided in a civil war with massive casualties.
And in his second inaugural address, Lincoln said these words: "With
malice toward none, with charity for all." He gave us a lesson that's
valid in our times - not to get pulled into the bitterness and the
divisiveness - to still be heartfelt in our communications - to at some
point separate ourselves from the anger which we all feel and to move
past it, to try and connect with each other once again - through the
heart.

This campaign, for us, began with an understanding of the world being
interconnected and interdependent. It is our connection to all people
that causes us to achieve a higher level of compassion.

So let's remember Lincoln's words - and let's remember our own resolve.
And let's make sure that when we begin a new chapter in the politics of
this nation, we come forward with ever more resolve, ever more courage,
ever more heart, ever more of a spiritual approach - that will enable us
to be better-prepared to help create this new world that we know is just
waiting to be called forward.

So, thank you - thank you for participating in this election. Thank you
for your efforts on behalf of John Kerry and thank you for still
believing that we can come together through a collective effort to
achieve a transformation of our social and political structures.

We must never yield to disappointment and to discouragement, because we
build our victories for tomorrow from today's defeats.

So, I look forward to continuing our ongoing discussions. You'll be able
to watch a lot of activity at kucinich.us - there are going to be a lot
of exciting things happening on this Web site.

I hope to speak with you soon - and if I don't talk to you before
Thanksgiving, I hope that you and your families have much to be thankful
for in your own lives and loves, notwithstanding this unfortunate result
of the election.

Thank you, and thanks to John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, John Edwards,
Elizabeth Edwards and their families for giving this nation an
opportunity for hope again, and for showing us a level of decency that
reflects well on the potential that all of us have to touch our fellow
citizens.

Thanks, and good day.


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