Interview (almost) With Congressman Dennis Kucinich
5 January Michael Arrington
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was too far behind in the polls to get invited to today’s ABC/Facebook presidential debate - he was cut along with Duncan Hunter and Mike Gravel. Instead, we scheduled time to talk with him about his positions on technical policies, something we’ve already done with Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney and Mike Gravel.
Unfortunately we didn’t get past the niceties before Kucinich abruptly pulled the plug on the interview, said goodbye and hung up. There’s not much content here, but he does briefly address his position on the atomic bomb, the internal combustion engine and NASA, and notes that he’s had a lot of support from the Internet. At the end of the interview he promises to reschedule. Something tells me he won’t be able to do that before he pulls out of the race. After coming in dead last in Iowa and polling “NA” in other states, I have a feeling he may not be around for long.
More at TechCrunch, including a transcript of the conversation.
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January 5th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Comments
January 6th, 2008 at 9:22 am
He didn’t come in “dead last” in Iowa. He told his supporters to back Obama if he did not meet the 15% threshold (you do know how the Democratic caucuses worked, I presume), and they did. He’s actually polling fourth in New Hampshire, ahead of Richardson.
January 9th, 2008 at 11:56 am
As a Progressive Democrat (even Obama called himself just that), I am a strong Kucinich supporter, and will vote for him here in Calif. no matter how he has done elsewhere. And I did read how he stands on just about every possible issue — something I haven’t seen any other candidate provide. And surprise surprise, I agreed with every single stand he has taken on the issues. But my second choice would be Obama.
I don’t dislike Hillary, and my wife is a great supporter of her, but after all she did vote for the Iraq war, even though she was lied to big time by the administration at the time. So I could live with either candidate as nominee, however I would much prefer Dennis Kucinich.
And if I were a Republican and in a primary state which didn’t allow me to cross party lines, I would vote for Ron Paul, who in my opinion seems to me to be very similar to Kucinich, although I really haven’t studied him much.
January 27th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
That was a good interview otherwise I would never have gotten his point of view on some of the issues as he didn’t have the ABC debate platform.