Obama opens 2008 race in historic setting
Obama has vaulted quickly into the top tier of a crowded field of Democratic presidential contenders along with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and 2004 vice presidential nominee John Edwards.
Five other Democrats are contending for the nomination, including New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack and Sens. Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Joseph Biden of Delaware.
I was dismayed by this article, as it represented an inaccuracy that I have seen repeated in the media: specifically, failing to include Democratic House of Representatives member Dennis Kucinich to the list of Democratic candidate hopefuls. I would like to think that in this instance, the author’s failure to include Dennis Kucinich was just an innocent, unintended oversight.
Jackie P.
You would be right in thinking it was an innocent oversight. While some of our political stories may only identify the top two or three front-runners at a given point in the campaign, if a story mentions that five other Democrats are in the race but only names four of them, that is a mistake: GBU Editor
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Thanks for clarifying the oversight on Rep Kucinich. It would be wonderful if you could offer a profile on this honest, dynamic leader.
Few, the field of candidates especially, have displayed the foresight he excersises. And this is not just simply in terms of doing his duty in observing the data re: Iraq. Health Care, War on Drugs, Transparency in Gov’t - heck even going back to his days as Mayor of Cleveland, Rep Kucinich has not backed down from from empirical approach to researching the issues. Even if it meant putting his career in jeoprady.
Few politicians have engaged in that. I like this cycle’s field of honest contendors - from Hagel to Gravel, and I think the readers would be best served by a look at these individuals who serve the good rather than the pocketbooks of a “master”.
Are we not tired of the major networks serving as the arbiters, the gatekeepers, of who is viable?
Is it not hinckey that the major networks drool at the prospect of record breaking campaign spending?
Please, let us learn about the candidates who, in Kucinch’s words, have “no strings attached”.
Enough of giving a pass to those who easily enamour the electorate like so many shiny trinkets.
There are servants of the public, good and true, who have tried to represent the best interests of their constituents - and they recieve derision and cheap opinion in the form of adjectives (ie: “longshot candidate”, “maverick spokeperson” etc.)
This really is our last best hope for restoring what the aspirations of the democratic founders, otherwise democracy flounders, and we are regressing into a dictatorship of those who can hire the best campaign admakers.
Really no different than a record label that shells it out to make an over the top video for a mediocre song.
“Video killed the radio star”, as the songs goes. It’s also killing the idea of a democracy. A dictatorship of the dollar, if you will.
Looking forward to reading more of Kucinich, Hagel, Feingold, Gravel, etc.
thanks,
Stephen
- Posted by StephenThe GBU editor says “You would be right in thinking it was an innocent oversight.” And Lincoln said “…, you can fool some of the people all the time, ….”
- Posted by GregirtKucinich definitely deserves more coverage from Reuters. He has the most interesting ideas of any candidate running this time out.
- Posted by libhomo