Obama 2: Kucinich Boogaloo

"I am a Dennis Kucinich supporter because I believe America's greatest problem is its incivility, its intolerance to new ideas, its remorseless hatred of weakness and failure, and the willinglness of its individual citizens to submerge their individual cowardice within the vicious commerce-driven standards of our national self-image. George Bush is a terrible president, but he is merely a by-product of thse wider national tendencies, which exist outside of him and independently of him. And these tendencies are symbolized exactly in the laughter directed at Dennis Kucinich. To vote for Dennis Kucinich, I believe, is to vote for man's right to publicly be who he is and not be ridiculed for it. If we are peaceful people, it is a vote for our right to merely be who we are."

- Matt Taibbi

If Obama is my black revenge revolver fired lazily from my privileged position, Kucinich is the velvet hammer swung by my endless pit of revolutionary rage. There's a lot about both guys to like, but liking the president isn't the requirement for a presidential candidate... the dude just needs to be right. In fact, I'd argue that the motherfucker just needs to be right about a few things and can get help from us on the rest. Dennis Kucinich is that dude, Barack could be that dude with a little help, and Hilary and Edwards are too scared to be that dude. Fear might push the privates, but the generals need confidence to lead the charge... and that means not just taking a stand but making the right choice that LEADS you to that stand.

Maybe they'll run on the same ticket and that would help me out. How much of a bonus would that be? Barack and Dennis doing the damn thing in the White House with a cabinet full of people that can throw some assists but aren't trying to pull a Demonic Dick and take over.

Why not just run some shit? Why not fix some shit? Man, I'd be all over the next candidate that says "I think I'd rather go out and work on Baltimore's education system" or "We fucked Iraq up like Buster Douglas..." Why does every candidate instead start talking through a big Plexiglass megaphone built by Bechtel?

Don't they know that they can't live without us? Yeah, yeah.. you have money. But regardless you still need someone to make your food and drive and all that... don't you know that if you don't start somewhere soon you're probably going to die painfully? Can't you see that if you abandon me and mine, you're abandoning yourself and yours?

Take this one chance, this one day, and be brave. Oddly enough, the dude you make fun of is the same person you should be emulating to get my vote.