Kucinich will make a great cabinet officer, just as Sen Clinton will make a great US Supreme Court Justice, in the Obama/Dodd or Obama/Edwards presidency.

Now I have to actually decide. Crap.

No, but seriously, this guy and his supporters are all nuts. Sorry, just had to say it. Ever run into one of his supporters at a party? My lord, stupid and uninformed, what could be sexier.

Sad.

what department -- Secretary of the Left??

Your pronouncements about Obama's cabinet are starting to sound like your assurances that we would have a transit bill by the end of February.

But don't worry- Obama will make a *fine* Vice President.

These runs for President may cost him his House seat.

Too bad America has its head up its ass. Including Dan Savage, Eli Sanders, Annie Wagner and probably some others at Seattle's "alternative" weekly.

But hey, given his anti-choice history, he could probably get a seat in a GOP administration too.

It's unfortunate he was cut from the Iowa debates due to his campaign office not having a store front. Seem to set up a chain of debate exclusion.

He should guest star on American Idol. It has higher ratings anyway.

Which Dept, @11 ... well, not the Dept for Peace, so how about Justice?

In my perfect world Kucinich would be part of a unified coalition of parliamentary parties that governed from left of center and that would implement most policy planks he supports.

But we have winner take all, not proportional representation. We have a focus on personality and likability instead of long term party building. Even among us over here on the Democratic side, we are mainly driven by likability, threats to not vote for the D in the fall if one's own candidate isn't the nominee, and so on.
We have stupid fights over "racism" because someone said soemthing about LBJ and didn't say the right thing about MLK, when at the same time we all need national health care and other things that are way more important.

We have huge numbers of people in DC who lack any representation in Congress at all, and that's a real deprivation of rights, and it leaves us 2 votes hsort int he Senate at all times, but few really care even within the Democratic Party. We'd rather fight about what's taboo or not taboo to say about AAs, Latinos, and women, and accuse another Democrat of being part of the KKK if they say the wrong thing.

Meanwhile we also act like it is just fine that we have this wacky system where 21% of the nation, the most conservative part, gets to elect 51% of the US Senators. We are under the collective delusion this is a democracy with majority rule, when it isn't. It's a minority rule system. We worsen this by supporting the idiocy of "minority rights" in the Senate's rules about cloture, although this empowers an 18% minority by population to dictate to the majority, which is why we can't stop the Iraq war or huge corporate giveaways or get national health care. Beyond that we have the nondemocracy of the electoral college, which is a means whereby rural conservative states (more dominated by huge corporations and the right wing) can rule over all of us in the larger, more diverse, metropolitan areas, although we have more people.

So, Will, if we were like most nations in Europe, we'd have a social democracy and we'd already have health care for all, and I'd be with you on thinking Dennis Kucinich would and should get into the cabinet.

Hell, he might've even been the guy to keep the socialists in line with the social democrats and the greens and the DLC types to get the whole center-left governing coalition together.

But in our system which is structurally undemocratic and tilted to the right, he's nothing on the national scale.

Alas.

God, I wish I was king...

And a question.... is it mud-slinging if your name is Gravel???? What about Dirt??? Or if your initials are BHO?

Didn't you say the same thing about Bill 16 years ago????