Kucinich's two jobs

Posted: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:33 PM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Democrats, 2008

From NBC's Andrew Merten

For a good part of the last five years, Dennis Kucinich has held two jobs: Ohio congressman and quixotic presidential candidate. In fact, if his White House bid lasts well into next year (which it probably will), he will have spent two of his last three congressional terms running for president — a sizable amount of time for someone who garnered just 1 percent of the vote in the 2004 Iowa caucuses, and who remains buried beneath other 2008 Democratic presidential contenders in current polls.

His time on the presidential campaign trail hasn't gone unnoticed by his critics. In his 2004 congressional re-election bid, his two opponents — Republican Edward Herman and Independent Barbara Ferris — brought up the votes he missed while running for president, arguing that he was distracted from meeting the needs of his constituents in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Kucinich is very aware of the issues and his unique perspective (which I don't largely share) needs to be heard by the people, something he accomplishes in debates. It's Gravel, Dodd and Richardson who are offering nothing to these debates.

In any case the people of his district didn't seem to mind his campaigning and voted for him. Did him missing all these votes change anything?

Yiannis, Baltimore, MD (Sent Friday, June 29, 2007 1:43 PM)

Kucinich is a mentally unbalanced nut job.

Bush Republican (Sent Friday, June 29, 2007 2:15 PM)

No, Bush RepubliCAN'T.....GEORGE BUSH is a mentally unbalanced nut job.
Dennis Kucinich is just a pain in the ass.

J. Merle Stanley, Westchester, NY (Sent Friday, June 29, 2007 2:32 PM)

Only two jobs!! What a lazy SOB, he is no Jamaican.

Russell in Maryland (Sent Friday, June 29, 2007 5:50 PM)

Considering all the problems in Ohio these days, you wonder why anybody would want to represent Ohio.

jerry/corpus christi texas (Sent Friday, June 29, 2007 11:41 PM)

Go J. Merle.....It takes a nut job to know one.....

Sherri, Charleston WV (Sent Saturday, June 30, 2007 10:48 AM)

Well jerry.....the republicans ran Ohio for YEARS up until the last election, so if they have problems leftover from G.O.P. leadership that will take more than 6 months to fix, it doesn't surprise me.
And by the way, for as much of a schla-meel as Kucinich is,.....I'd still vote for him for President over any of the losers your Republican party is running. If Freddie "Jack Daniels" Thompson, and Gigolo Rudy 'G' are the best you have to offer, you're in a lot of trouble

J. Merle Stanley, Westchester, NY (Sent Monday, July 02, 2007 9:17 AM)

Kucinich is the only person I trust in the entire U.S. congress. He is the only congressman I know that strives "for the new birth of Freedom" in the USA that president Lincoln wrote about. Congressman Kucinich is the only one that is working for a government that is "by the people, for the people", and not for the big coorporations that bring to poverty the true American working class. Instead of helping other countries for "their" freedom, with our hard working American money (like Bush and his buddies do), Kucinich is doing the oposite by trying to keep our sweat where it belongs, to us, the middle class people who played a big part in creating this beautiful land we live in, that is able to unite the whole world in one great place. America The Beautiful. Some times, two jobs do more good than 100 put together because they give you more time to "think" before you act.

Katereena, Cleveland, OH (Sent Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:15 PM)

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