Posted on Mon, May. 17, 2004
Unflagging Kucinich aims to change party's direction
By Rick Lyman
NEW YORK TIMES
PORTLAND, Ore. - Before Americans get too engrossed in a general election contest between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, would like to remind them of something: He's still out here, working hard every day, slogging from town to town, the second-to-last person still standing in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"Math is not my major, but I can count," the Ohio congressman said as his car wound along the dripping piney woods of the central Oregon coast, a glowering sky flecking the windshield with pin-size raindrops. "I understand that Kerry has enough delegates to be nominated. I can count, but I can also figure."
And this is how Dennis Kucinich, former boy-mayor of Cleveland whose half-forgotten, dead-but-still-twitching presidential campaign is now targeting Tuesday's Oregon primary, figures it:
"The reason I have not dropped out of the race is that we may have a nominee, but the future direction of the Democratic Party has not yet been determined."
And what he wants Kerry, and the Democratic Party, to do is to take an unambiguous stand against not only the war in Iraq but against "the very idea that war is inevitable." The nation's whole political mindset must be changed, Kucinich said.
"We are at the unusual juncture where what is morally right and politically efficacious are in confluence," Kucinich said. "My presence in the race provides...(Full Story)
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