It's clobberin' time

I’m trying to figure out why I don’t like Dennis Kucinich. It’s not his policy positions—not all of them, anyway—and I’d like to think I’m not just creeped out by his looks and demeanor. I always played Elves in D&D. We should have a natural connection!

But when I read his blog , or his guest posts on Larry Lessig’s, I just feel like punching somebody.

Sometimes it’s the things he says:

As the next President of the United States, I intend to address [corporate media and media accountability] directly. First, the Justice Department will engage in an ongoing dialogue [sic] with major media over how the public interests can be better served.

Sometimes it’s the way he says those things:

Just about every day of my life, I’ve met people who, because of fear and doubt, cut themselves off from the incredibly expressive power of the human heart.

But they combine to call up visions of a tripped-out John Ashcroft in a Beatles wig, just running around smoking fatties and weepily hugging people and then having them arrested for not serving his “public interest” quite right, and yes, it creeps me out.

Filed under: politics/2004