Dennis Kucinich has announced his run for candidate for president of the United States. He is the most outspoken anti-war candidate, who didn't vote for the war, didn't vote for increases in spending, and does not support the slaughter mills of American corporate greed otherwise known as the Iraq war. Kucinich urges early Iraq exit: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16210167/
"Waiting for another anti-war candidate “A lot of people are sitting on the fence until someone comes up with something a lot more definitive than what’s being said right now about the war,” said Maryland Democratic Party chairman Terry Lierman, who was the finance chairman of Howard Dean’s presidential bid in 2004.
“The person who wins this (battle for the nomination) is going to be the person who comes up with the strongest and most rational proposal to get out of Iraq,” Lierman added. “Those who have namby-pamby proposals will suffer the consequences.” If Democrats are looking for a contender who did not vote to go to war in 2002 and has not voted to fund the war, two names immediately come to mind: Dean and former vice president Al Gore.
Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana will not seek the presidency in 2008. “At the end of the day, I concluded that due to circumstances beyond our control the odds were longer than I felt I could responsibly pursue,” Bayh told the Indianapolis Star. “This path — and these long odds — would have required me to be essentially absent from the Senate for the next year instead of working to help the people of my state and the nation.” A very commendable step-aside for someone hired to do a job and someone who actually wants to do that job. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16235397/
John Edwards to announce '08 run.
Former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards intends to enter the 2008 race for the White House, two Democratic officials said Saturday.
Edwards, who represented North Carolina in the Senate for six years, plans to make the campaign announcement late this month from the New Orleans neighborhood hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina last year and slow to recover from the storm. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16239360/
In other news, the two who want to dig a hole for America by re-electing another Republican all because they're too egotistical, are getting media attention. Hillary and Obama http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16238556/site/newsweek
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Meanwhile, someone not getting publicity for being a politician, but rather for doing a good job, is Al Gore.
"I am not planning to run for president again," Gore said last week, arguing that his focus is raising public awareness about global warming and its dire effects. Then, he added: "I haven't completely ruled it out."
Those words make Gore the 800-pound non-candidate of the Democratic field. The possibility of another presidential bid delights many Democrats still steamed over the disputed 2000 election, in which they argue a few more votes, a state other than Florida and a different Supreme Court could have put Gore, not George W. Bush, in the White House.
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the front-runner, but a polarizing one for some Democrats. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is the electrifying newcomer, but limited in his experience. Gore remains, for many party activists, the Democrat and popular vote-getter done wrong.
"He won the election in 2000 _ he just lost the (electoral) count," former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler said. "If I were he, I wouldn't rule out a run. It's an uncertain field, and he's a person who is widely respected." http://www.algore.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=430&Itemid=81
