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Article: The pure one: Dennis Kucinich, 'soul-light magic,' and the Democratic party.(Election 2004 III)
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- National Review
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- February 9, 2004
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IT'S easy--and not altogether unfair--to dismiss Rep. Dennis Kucinich as a kook. What other Democratic presidential candidate has mused publicly on the nature of the universe by saying, as Kucinich did in June 2002, "The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self"? And who else has described his perfect soul mate, as the unmarried Kucinich did in November, as a woman who is "fearless in her desire for peace in the world and for universal, single-payer health care"?
It's good for a laugh, but perhaps it is too easy to dismiss Kucinich--and to ...