Kucinich steps up the Presidential race

Too often this upcoming Presidential election has been referred to as a horse race, which many members of the media call it when describing the candidacies of the so called "Top Tier" candidates.

The majority of the time when the election is being covered on TV you will only see the images of three candidates from each side that the media has decided are the most electable. They include: Democrats Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, and on the Republican side they include Mitt Romney, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani.

Despite this overwhelming coverage and sometimes unfair look at the election, one candidate is not backing down or letting this affect his campaign. That man is Ohio Congressmen Dennis Kucinich who is taking his second stab at the White House, he ran for the first time in 2004. Kucinich currently polls in the single digits and has raised far less money than his colleagues. Kucinich's record of consistently opposing the Iraq war from the beginning makes him the right person for the job.

The Congressmen believes those running for president who in the beginning supported the war, and now oppose it do not have the leadership or the right to be Commander-in- Chief. "When Hillary Clinton said she was fooled by George Bush, does that make her right on the war now saying if she knew then what she knows now she never would've voted for the war," said Kucinich who spoke to the Primary Insiders in an exclusive interview on Sunday in Keene, New Hampshire.

"I don't believe someone who continues to allow the funding of this illegal war is using right judgment, I don't believe you can truly be against the war when you vote to continue funding it and keeping our men and women in harms way," Kucinich said of Senator Barack Obama. "All the others are talking about plans that would keep us in Iraq for a long time and dress these up as withdrawal plans," said Kucinich, who is the only Democratic presidential candidate with a plan to immediately leave Iraq.

Kucinich has also been aggressively pursuing articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney, but has not garnered the kind of support from fellow Democrats that he hopes for.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it very clear when the Democrats took control of the Congress in 2006 that impeachment was off the table, however this didn't stop Congressmen Kucinich.

"Bush and Cheney should be impeached for continuing with efforts to launch an American attack on Iran in the next 14 months, including plans to retrofit B2 bombers with 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs to drop inside Iran," said Kucinich. "Democratic leaders are wrong to rule out impeachment, when our leaders have said impeachment is off the table, what they have essentially done is make Mr. Bush a monarch."

Often, Kucinich likes to point out that the war is not just a Republican party issue but that the blame is shared by the Democrats who actually had the majority in the Senate when the vote came up.

"The people need to be told the truth, they need a leader who will never cower to political pressure, or back down from an issue when the citizen's of the United States civil liberties are at stake," said Kucinich. "I want to make it crystal clear that I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, I will continue that as President."

Even in the toughest of horse races, one dark horse continues his ride to the White House while remaining the same person and voice, regardless of what the white ponies are saying and doing. That's Dennis Kucinich for you!