January 04, 2008

What Kucinich Saw: Witnesses Describe Close Encounter. In a Democratic presidential debate in late October, Mr. Kucinich acknowledged seeing something airborne that he couldn't identify and then defused the issue with a joke about opening a campaign office in Roswell, N.M., the capital of unexplained sightings. Since then, the long-shot candidate has refused to elaborate on the experience.
posted by HawthorneWingo 16 years ago
  • Yeah, it's just easier to write him off as a nut than to deal with the issues he presents on a substantive level, like health care or ending the war or banning handguns for civilians or gay marriage being a matter of fundamental equality... It was a flying object that could not be identified. That makes it an unidentified flying object. And Reagan saw two, and the whitewash of history says he wasn't a nutter, so can we go back to talking in this election about things that actually matter? Sheesh.
  • The focus on this UFO thing just drives me bonkers. It has absolutely nothing to do with the man's capacity or qualifications for the office, nor for the issues he would have to address in that office. It's just like the Eagleton mess, or Gary Hart. Keep scaring off people who have an imperfect past, or who are in some way different from your ideal, and it's no wonder the country gets stuck with leaders who either have no mind for themselves, or have to perpetrate an eternal fraud over the country in order to make themselves palatable. GRR!
  • Yeah, we could focus on his political views, but since they represent a small minority of voters, he's not really a viable candidate for anything. It's either the UFOs and the hot wife, or we just ignore him completely.
  • OK, let's focus on the hot wife, then.
  • The delegate from Illinois would like to second the hot wife amendment
  • He, Dennis, is the only one that terrifies the establishment more than Edwards does. Correction. If he were deemed to be electable. Even so, his ideas scare the establishment. Particularly the health insurance industry. Speaking of Edwards, how much coverage for him and his relative shoe string expenditure after beating Hillary in Iowa? It is still all about Clinton. The one democrat the establishment is comfortable with.
  • so can we go back to talking in this election about things that actually matter? Hahahahahahahaha! Ahhhh! Oh Louie you're a nut! Heheheh. *snif* Ahhh. Oh. Heh. Matters. Heh. Yee Haw
  • The establishment is about as afraid of Dennis Kucinich being president as Alan Dershowitz and Barry Scheck are afraid of me(small-time lawyer) cutting into their business. I think you have to poll at over three percent to get the establishment worried. Hell, Ron Paul scored ten percent in Iowa, and I am sure that no one is remotely afraid of him.
  • All in favor of the hot wife say aye! AYE!!! Motion carried. Show us your tongue stud, young lady!
  • For the record, I wasn't posting this to promote the "oh look what a kook Kucinich is" P.O.V. I've seen a UFO - a flying something that no one could identify. I believe Kucinich. This whole thing makes me like him even more than I did 4 years ago. It's interesting that this was on the cover of the WSJ.
  • Do you believe?
  • Sorry about that, Hawthorne. My frustration wasn't directed at you, but rather media outlets like the WSJ, who are supposed to be talking about actual news.
  • Shit! Better vote for him, his off planet supporters are back!!
  • My frustration wasn't directed at you, but rather media outlets like the WSJ, who are supposed to be talking about actual news. *cough* *cough* *snif* I like that they used "Throbbing" in the title. That was fun.
  • Throbbing is a bad sign. Trust me. Unless it's the good throbbing.
  • My infuriation with this goes in two directions. One, towards the WSJ for using this on the front page. (It's news, I believe, but not front-page news.) Two, towards the knee-jerk "what a kook" reaction to these stories. Reagan saw a UFO; Carter saw a UFO. Astronauts have seen UFOs. Airline pilots have seen UFOs. All kinds of people have seen UFOs - which are, as the good Cap'n pointed out, flying objects that cannot be identified. If seeing a UFO makes one crazy, then there are way more crazies out there than anyone realizes, around the world, in all levels of society, and in all kinds of positions of public importance. The knee-jerk reaction is lazy and lame.
  • OK, let's focus on the hot wife, then. What Kucinich Saw: his brilliant, kind, gorgeous wife looking at him with true love in her eyes. Naked. Oh my.
  • Most people in the public probably didn't think anything of Kucinich having a sighting, only the assholes in the media. Millions of people have had sightings or know someone who has, plus there are a lot of people who already believe in UFOs. It wouldn't make any difference to his voter turnout, I should think. In fact it might have helped, if he promised he would release all the government info on 'em if he got in. I'm trying not to think about his wife's quim.
  • I saw a UFM one night,,well I think it was a monkey.
  • There is some talk going around the UFO discussion sites that Kucinich saw an early unmanned USAF drone.
  • I'd be more concerned about seeing Unrestrained Fascist Officials. They actually exist.
  • And yet, if he said he heard Jesus in his head, telling him to declare war, he'd be OK.