Dennis Kucinich's Brave Voice
Dennis Kucinich deserves the praise and gratitude of all Americans who want our government to promote peace and justice at home and abroad. On all the issues, Dennis took brave, honest positions that reflect his great courage and decency.
While Clinton and Obama continued to support funding the Iraq war, Dennis said the war was simply WRONG and worked to cut off funds and remove our troops before more Americans died in vain.
While many of his fellow Democrats hope the Bush administration just quietly fades away, Dennis wants to impeach Dick Cheney right now and expose his high crimes before the American public.
We don't need more Congressional hearings on Cheney, the record is clear. It's time for the Democrats to follow Dennis' lead and make Cheney an ignominious example to future leaders who contemplate lying to the public to get us into another war.
While Clinton, Obama and Edwards claim their "morality" prevents them from supporting gay marriage, Dennis takes the truly moral position: All Americans deserve the right to marry regardless of their sexual orientation. Anything less than full marriage equality is immoral discrimination!
I congratulate Dennis for his brave campaign and I wish him great success in his congressional race. I will do anything I can to see him reelected because we need his stalwart voice challenging his fellow congressmen and fighting for the America that he and I both believe is possible.
I promise to stay in the presidential race and continue promoting our shared ideals so that one day our party and our government will be as committed to peace and justice as Dennis Kucinich.
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I promise to stay in the presidential race....
great news!
Senator,
With Kucinich's departure I am sadly reminded of the early debate where Edwards and Clinton were caught on mike planning to get you and Dennis removed from future debates for speaking the truth to their corrupted power. Both of you have fought the good fight against all odds and I wanted to say thank you. The entrenched power structure is strong, but we just have to keep chipping away at it with hope. You had my vote at the Iowa Caucuses and you will have my vote in the general election.
Go Gravel! I'm positive that your kind words for Congressman Kucinich are appreciated by his supporters. Though you've always been my choice for President you are now the only Democratic candidate in the race who speaks out against what's really happening to our country at the hands of the Military Industrial Complex. We as a country need your voice in this election. Americans are tired of 'Politics as Usual.' Thank you for staying the course and not giving up! You have my votes and my support.
Well said Senator. I wholeheartedly agree.
We need the voices of leaders like you and Congressman Kucinich to make progress against greed, war bigotry and discrimination.
Senator Gravel:
Thanks for your anti-war voice.
Yes, it's true, as pointed out by Tom Hayden and you, none of the three leading Democratic candidates actually support a total withdrawal of all U.S. troops. The counter-insurgency program with private security troops will continue to occupy Iraq for many years to come, regardless of whether any of the leading Democratic candidates are elected.
A "counter-insurgency" is a program that involves the use of military force, with economic, political and social programs. The mission involved securing access to Iraq's oil if not control or even privatization, i.e., outright ownership.
You and Dennis Kucinich aptly pointed out the drawbacks of conducting such wars but nobody wants to accept the truth about the war. I remember when you tried to end the war in Vietnam. The Pentagon Papers are revealing as was the Downing Street Memo. Strangely, the same people in America who consider themselves patriots and guardians of democracy and freedom do not want to hear the truth.
You deserve credit. Some day your bravery will be recognized. This is true patriotism.
Thank you, Senator Gravel. Good luck to you on your bid for the Presidency.
I will continue to support Congressman Kucinich now in his bid for re-election to the House even though I'm not a resident of Ohio because I believe, like you, that we can't afford to lose his voice and his activism in our government.
On a lighter note, his presidential campaign bumper sticker will remain on my car.
Strength through Peace
I'm not surprised to read your kind words about Dennis Kucinich. The fact that you and he have been so poorly supported is a measure of the hypocrisy of America. We Americans are voting McCain/Romney or Obama/Clinton, all dedicated to war.
You and Ron Paul are, and were always in my judgment, the only anti-war candidates in the race. I have no soft-spot in my heart or head for libertarianism but I'd vote for any Republican or Democrat with your or his anti-war credentials.
It looks like this election will be the one where I and I hope many, many Americans finally turn our backs on the R/D duopoly and start walking the long, long winding road to a third (in reality a second) party here in the USA.
Win, lose, or draw, may I recommend the People's Virtual Party as base?
http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/United_States_Peoples_Virtual_Party
Thanks, again, Senator Gravel. You are indeed one of the (few) good guys.
One can point to the corporate monopoly MSM as part of the reason that courageous and intelligent individuals such as Kucinich and yourself can not get a fair hearing of their ideas. But, sadly, the most prominent reason is that the majority of the American public are shockingly stupid. They always say that they want to vote for a candidate on the issues, but it seemingly comes down to shallow surface inanities that carry the day for our ever less effective "leaders".
Voting against your own self-interest (let alone in the best interest of all American citizens) because some candidate is handsome, has a nice voice, is the same race, gender or political party, is our national tragedy. I still hope we will one day rise above our dim-witted course, but I doubt that I will live to see it.
Earthlings Unite!
You fought the good fight Mike! Thanks for your effort!
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Thanks for your courage, insight and directness and for acknowledging the work that Dennis Kucinich has done.
Both of you needed more press coverage..
Please continue to speak for us.
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I watch from here in England and wish that all the wise, independent minded and honest candidates would get together to form a mass of individuals that we could recognise as having hopes for the future that echo our own. It is no different here...although our 'third party', the Liberal Democrats are at least visible, albeit with far less coverage...but for me, they are the honest alternative to the main two parties that appear to be morphing into an unrecognisable blob of political something that offers no choices, just different ways of getting it wrong.
I have followed your (Gravel) campaign since I first heard you speak truth and realised how out of place it sounded - I wish you success and I think that can only come when an electoral system allows people to vote with their personal truths...and not as part of a 'strategy' to get a party out rather than what they truly want - in.
RIGHT ON!!!
Thank you Senator Gravel!,
I'm still planning on voting for either you, or for Senator Edwards come Feb. 12,... I just gotta which.
Thank you for your service and for NOT getting out of the race for President!
Senator Gravel your comments are appreciated. You are a classy guy. Thanks for your past efforts as a Senator during the Viet Nam war era, your historic filibuster to end that war and your continued efforts to speak out against the disaster in Iraq. Peace.
Hi Sen Gravel! Nice to hear from you. Your voice has been sorely missed from the Democratic debates and conversation. I very much appreciated that while the rest of the Democratic candidates kumbaya'd about how they would like to expand domestic social services and then tried to knock each other down on petty character flaws, you pointed out that there are bigger issues at stake - a war that is killing innocent civilians and US soldiers, a national debt caused in grand part by this war and other military action dragging down the whole economy, that our government is in a point of constitutional crises as a basic liberties are being stripped from us. You speak to the hard cruel truth of where our country now stands and I appreciate it.
Both you and Dennis Kucinich have been true fighters in the fight for our democracy and I am very sorry to see him go. But its nice to here that your still around - telling it like it is.
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Posted January 28, 2008 | 12:36 PM (EST)