You are a bunch of hypocrites. I'm sorry to say it, but the constant message on this site is Clinton-Obama-Edwards, over and over--while at the same time there is simultaneous blather about "out of Iraq" or "do something about public health" or "save the whales." Hello, NONE of these three so-called "front runners" stand on platforms that line up with the issues you supposedly support.
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? Why don't you support Kucinich?
For example,
Fifteen thousand trade unionists had packed into Chicago’s Soldier Field to hear contenders for the 2008 Democratic nomination make their cases. While the frontrunners drew their requisite rounds of applause, it was the scrappy working class Congressman from Cleveland who wowed the AFL-CIO activists. Dennis Kucinich delivered applause line after applause line—connecting with the crowd on ideological, political, and emotional levels that the other candidates could not begin to reach.
http://www.progressive.org/...
But then,
Within weeks of that August AFL-CIO forum, unions began to make their endorsements. The Machinists went for Clinton, arguably the steadiest proponent in the field of the job-killing "free trade" schemes that have decimated the union’s membership. The Carpenters and the Steelworkers broke for Edwards, a newly minted populist who sounds good but still struggles to get the specifics right. The Firefighters backed Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, an old-school liberal with a weaker record than Kucinich and no better prospects.
It is so very, very frustrating. In blind polls based on issues, Kucinch wins. He takes solid progressive positions. He does what he says he will do after he gets elected. He's not in the pockets of all the evil corporations that everybody here constantly goes on about.
But at the end of the day, it's all about Clinton, Obama, and Edwards. Clinton, the war supporter. Obama, Mister "who cares if the Mexicans can afford tortillas?" Edwards, the billionaire lawyer. What happened to Howard Dean's "Democratic wing of the Democratic party" theory, anyway?
There is a perfectly good progressive Democrat on the ticket. Why does the political left in this country support a bunch of Republicans-in-Democratic-clothing? I simply don't understand why the good hair candidates get so much support in on-line communities like this one...