Dennis Kucinich advice to the lovelorn

[eridani]

http://kucinich.us/archive/home/display.php?src=k_20060511_ybbxvat4ybir.cuc

Never, never sell American women short, they know what they want. Guess it just wasn't me. Only about one percent of those contestants voted for me in the New Hampshire primary. Talk about fickle. I was despondent, started to feel like Woody Allen, asking deep, probing, philosophical questions about myself, about sex, about elections, about death or combinations of sex, death, and elections, which you can't do openly if you are a Republican.

Questions: Did those National Enquirer stories linking me to the gene pool of the Keebler Elf hurt? How did Entertainment Tonight discover that the risers I used in the debates were actually a foot high? Did Fox News tele-morphing me into Alfred E. Newman on the eve of the Iowa Caucuses cost me the American-Gothic vote? Did Ted Koppel try to rush me off the stage from the debates because he was jealous of my hair? Was I doomed to a life of notorious loneliness?

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• Lesson Number One:
Keep your appointments.
• Lesson Number Two:
Be careful of your immigration policy.
• Lesson Number Three:
If you are an Ohio Democrat and your wife calls you "Guv'nor," it may be just a British figure of speech.
• Lesson Number Four:
If you don't have a monetary policy, make up one.
• Lesson Number Five:
Never lie about your age. But never tell it. This became a problem for me, because the City of Cleveland keeps wanting to put up my portrait from when I was mayor in 1977 (the year Elizabeth was born) and I keep telling her that was my father.
• Lesson Number Six:
Lie about your height. Show up early for your dinner appointments and remain seated.
• Lesson Number Seven:
When you've got it, you've got it. Even if you got it late. Ain't love grand?

[Selatius]

1. I often wonder how many more votes he'd get if he looked like JFK

I hate to point it out, but politics has become so superficial now. When all we had was the radio, you were weighed more by your policies than how you look and act. Now the equation has changed.

[cyclezealot]

3. People are so foolish.

Your thread about Looking like JFK are so to the point. So many Democrats I talked to in choosing a Dem Candidate said like, Kerry's hair or Kerry looks most like JFK. I found that so absurd but I'd say that's why Kerry got the nomination, not what he said. I'd say reason Kerry lost the general election( besides electoral corruption.)- he did not talk plain, his goals did not hit resognate with American's, and to some extent- he did waffle.
HOw can one vote for a candidate based on looks. Thougt that's how we won being president of your high school class. Makes me think US elections are hopeless.
HEre DK is a true American who has suffered from the same abuses with our short sighted safety net, which has caused so many American's to fail. Yet, anyone who has heard DK talk, knows he is a man of substance and committment to the American people, yet with our media he has a rough road to hoe to communicate with the American people.
DK is my reason for 'keeping the faith.'
Having heard DK speak in person several times , another mark of his personality is his wry sense of humor. This is another example. thanks.

[eridani]

4. It would be totally cool if it were possible to photograph--

--his personal charisma, or even to bottle it. In North Carolina, he won the three counties where he personally appeared, which unfortunately points out the fact that the only viable winning strategy for him was to have personally appeared in every county in the US.

[Ladyhawk]

6. Word. I voted for Kucinich in the primary.

When it comes to people, I care so much more about substance than "looks." My best friend was terribly obese until he underwent gastric bypass, but he was / is a better friend to me than anyone else on this earth has ever been, including my family. I haven't seen him much lately, so I worry that the surgery may have changed him. :shrug: I hope not. I miss him.

Before the November election, I tried talking to an airheaded woman that never, ever shuts up. I can barely stand to be around her because she's like an energy vampire, sapping away all my strength with her long-winded spiels while simultaneously managing to say nothing of import. (Perhaps she wouldn't mind taking over the job for Tony Snow since he doesn't appear up to the task.) She was worried about voting Dem because of--get this--taxes! Chimpy McFlightsuit and Shooty McLeakyDick have guaranteed high taxes for all of us if we're ever going to pay off the debt. I tried to tell her this. She finally relented and said she might vote for the Dem ticket because John Edwards was "cute."

Oh, please. :eyes: Yeah, he's easy on the eyes and I wouldn't have minded looking at him instead of * since January, but that's no reason to vote for someone. Sheesh!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. I knew someone like that.

A former co-worker -- a pleasant enough young woman about my age, but clueless about politics.

While the majority of the office were voting for Kerry, I was curious about how she would vote. She mentioned that she doesn't follow that stuff, etc.

She was a very superficial person, so I mentioned that John Edwards is an attractive guy, hoping that would spur her to give a damn about democracy.

I'm very certain she didn't vote on Election Day, which was all the more unfortunate since she's a single mother. She had more at stake than I, a single, childless man, did, and yet I was the one who managed to vote that day.

I guess you just can't reach some people.

[Ladyhawk]

10. "I guess you just can't reach some people."

Nope. :( I've given up on my family. They will stick to the weed until the bitter end. It's been such a source of pain for me. Thanks, Bush. :grr:

[tavalon]

13. luckily Edwards was an able and reasonable candidate

Of course, that wasn't why bubblehead would have voted for him. She probably "forgot" to vote that day anyway.

[madmom]

15. my daughter was still in school for bush's first go round and had

female classmates who voted for him cuz they thought he was "cute":puke: the only thing I can say is there's no accounting for some peoples taste.

[CAcyclist]

17. That's so true. I'm afraid Angelides will lose the California

governor's race because he looks a bit dorky and Steve Westly is smooth looking, even though Westly is basically a Republican stalking horse and Angelides is the only one with the guts to set our finances right by taxing the multimillionaires (like Westly) who have been getting a free ride from the feds.

[stellanoir]

2. That is a riot.

Got to love him. Thanks for posting.

[LeftyMom]

5. So wait a minute,

This funny smart guy wanted to be president and the American people gave the dumbass another shot at the job he'd already proved he couldn't do?

Either something is seriously wrong with the system or the people. Or both. :argh:

Dennis should run again. Sure, he's not much to look at but he's smart and honest and I think people are getting really sick of glib, fake politicians. Just put the new Mrs. K in as many commercials as they can. She'd win over the shallow vote, 'cause she's a hottie.

[eridani]

18. He might not want to subject Elizabeth to the trash talk--

--directed at Dem candidates' wives. Recall some of the vile nonsense posted about Judy Dean and Teresa Kerry for starters. Who knows, though? She might be up for it.

I'm hoping that whether he runs again or not, he stays a national leader like Conyers and Waxman, both of whom have done a great deal without ever considering any other office than in the House of Representatives.

[upi402]

7. Yep, Americans are superficial and easy to fool n/t

[TahitiNut]

9. "never sell American women short"??? bullshit.

He did ... and a terrific one bought! :evilgrin:

I'll take vertically-challenged over ethically-challenged every day.

[Autonomy]

11. This kind of self-deprecating humor, humility

and profound insight is totally incompatible with the office of president. There's just no precedent for it. Okay, Clinton had the humor, and Carter had the insight, but no president has ever had both in this way to this degree.

I really don't have a point, other than Kucinich seems like a wonderful person, and an odd duck for a politician.

[Pachamama]

12. Kucinich is terrific....

And Elizabeth is one lucky woman.... :hi:

[bklyncowgirl]

14. Cute. You gotta love Dennis.nt

[Fovea]

16. One of the greatest living Americans.

Dubya is not 1/10,000th the man that DK is.

[Terran1212]

19. X D