Dennis Kucinich - The George Bush of the Left
 
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Reading about Dennis Kucinich, aka "The Mighty Munchkin", and his campaign announcement today I was struck by the eerie similarities between his positions and those of the current president. They are both extreme and both are on the far ends of their respective party's ideological base.
Let us look at Kucinich's announcement and break it down.
1. Kucinich said today "he would return to bilateral trade by revoking United States participation in NAFTA and the World Trade Organization." Bush said three years ago he was pulling the United States out of the ABM treaty, un-signing the International Criminal Court treaty and would not endorse the Kyoto Protocols on global warming. Now Kucinich wants to unilaterally yank the US out of two more treaties which bind us into the international political economy. Does he have any idea of how Canada and Mexico would view this act? Bush and Kucinich are both lawless treaty breakers, one just hates free trade while the other hates any constraint on American political homogeny.
2. Kucinich also said he would "create a cabinet-level Department of Peace that would bring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s principles of nonviolence into government." Non-violence and pacifism are not politics, they're religion and we have a constitution in this country which mandates separation of church and state. Bush wants to tear this wall down by allowing religion a larger role in American government and Kucinich wants to do the same thing. We already have a "Department of Peace" and it's called the United States Department of State.
3. Kucinich was opposed to NATO and US involvement in stopping Serbian genocide in Kosovo and was also opposed to United Nations-sanctioned action to remove the Taliban in Afghanistan. He never sees an issue that cannot be talked to death and has consistently refused to say when, if ever, he would see armed action as being a viable choice in international governance. Bush, on the other hand, looks to force usually as a first resort and diplomacy as a last. Again Bush and Kucinich's positions are almost exactly alike, just on the opposite ends of the political spectrum .
I could go on and on for Kucinich's meager record in congress, including sleeping during important committee meetings, gives one much ammunition to use against him. However I think I'll let him embarrass himself until he finally drops out of the race, I'd say by mid-April. Knowing Kucinich and his inability to articulate a cognizant thought without some mealy-mouthed leftist platitude coming out of his mouth I'm sure that once again, he won't let us down.
1:53:08 PM 
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