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It's Kucinich time: fanfare for the common. And for his lovely wife, Elizabeth.(Dennis Kucinich)
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Esquire
- Article date:
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November 1, 2007
- Author:
- Raab, Scott
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The pure products of America go crazy," wrote William Carlos Williams--antipoet of "the thing itself"--but Dr. Williams was from north Jersey, and as far as I know never strayed to Cleveland, whose own pure products long have been flame tempered, union made, and born batshit insane. So when I tell you that Dennis Kucinich is first of all a sane, sane man, and secondly, fit to be president--and thirdly: It's Kucinich time, now, because what this blue-balled, war-thwacked nation needs is not another scleroid corporate whore but a sixty-one-year-old vegan peacemonger, poor beyond corruption and honest as spit, hauling balls big enough to both choke Dick ...