Okay. Heres hoping this is the correct forum for this.
My neighbors were conversing this afternoon while one was cleaning his window and the other getting ready to go out.
They were discussing the convention, especially Kucinich (my homeboy).
The one who is quite opinionated politically said Dennis creeped him out with talk of changing the economy and starting over from an equal standpoint, which to him meant communism.
He pretty much finds Dennis to be commie, though not officially.
The other guy said his comments sounded Hitleresque.
Now, I missed Dennis’ speech, and never really listened to any of Hitlers.
What exactly like Dennis say, and did it imply he wanted to make the American economy communistic? if reality got bizarre and he actually was elected.
I didn’t listen to the speach either, but to start with Hitler was a Fascist and despised comunism. If you start with that assumption your neighbor was talking out of his… um sorry not the pit.
Dennis Kucinich is not a communist. He is an elected member of the US House of Representatives. He is loved (and hated) by people from my state of Ohio.
You can find more information about him at Rep. Kucinich
It’s just filled with vague platitudes. I hardly see anything in there that indicates communism or fascism.
You can also check out Kucinich’s platform here:
While Kucinich is definitely a liberal, it’s risible to call him either a communist or a fascist. He advocates private sector solutions in a number of his policy positions, and since his is a big fan of civil liberties, I can’t see how comparisons to Hitler are anything more than mindless, uninformed smears on a decent man.
From what I’ve read of him. Kucinich does seem to veer further left on economics and military issues than most of the Democratic Party establishment, plus he has a somewhat mystical idealist new agey spirituality. Green maybe, perhaps even pink, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call him Red. S
Just read the speech- I’m sure it sounded better spoken than it looked when I read it. Sentence fragments galore- with a blending of sentiments echoing Marx (“workers of the world”), Jesus (“blessed are the meek”), and Lennon ("I am he and you are he and you are me and we are all together’).
Maybe not Kucinich for President but definitely Kucinich for Walrus! (goo goo g’joob!)
I’m a member of the Socialist Party and I was active in Kucinich’s campaign this year and I’ve heard him speak in person and I know the contents of his website, and based on all this I can tell you flatly that Kucinich is not a socialist, certainly not a communist, and is not even as far to the left as Nader. He is probably the furthest-left Democrat in Congress. But I’ve never even heard him called a socialist – except by John Stewart who, in a recent primary-season retrospective on The Daily Show, referred to DJK as a “socialist garden gnome.”