Friday, February 20, 2004

Kucinich not ready to quit

By Kevin Eigelbach
Post staff reporter

The race for the Democratic presidential nomination has become like the television program "Survivor," candidate Dennis Kucinich said on Wednesday.

Appearing before a crowd of about 40 in Over-the-Rhine, Kucinich said he's not going to vote himself off the island, however.

"I'm not leaving," the congressman from Cleveland said.

"The trees on that island will leave before I will."

Earlier on Wednesday, former Vermont governor Howard Dean dropped out of the race, leaving three candidates besides Kucinich -- Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and the Rev. Al Sharpton.

In the race so far, Kucinich has run a distant third to Kerry and Edwards. But his left-of-center message resonated with the audience at Buddy's Place.

Applause greeted his call for a nonprofit health-care system with a 100 percent prescription drug benefit. He called it a defining moral issue for the country...(Full Story)

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