Kucinich continues fight for Democratic platform
By JIM ROSS - The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- Dennis Kucinich knows he will not be the Democratic nominee for president. What he’s fighting for now, he says, is to remind his party of what it stands for.
"The direction of the Democratic Party has not yet been determined. This is a critical time to keep the debate going," he said during a visit to Huntington on Friday.
"I was a third-string quarterback on a team that had only two strings, but I learned two things. You never sit on a lead, and we don’t have a lead right now."
Kucinich said voters will not have the choices they need to have this fall if the campaign run by John Kerry doesn’t change. The Democratic Party should stand for universal health care, for canceling the NAFTA and WTO trade agreements, for repeal of the USA PATRIOT Act and for getting out of Iraq immediately, he said.
"If we don’t put an end to this war, we’ll be looking at a draft the middle of next year -- guaranteed," he said.
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A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
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