> I may have mispelled his last name, but Dennis Cucinich of Ohio is one of the also-ran candidates for the Democratic Nomination. Like a lot of candidates who don't have a snowball's chance, he makes some sense. He wants to get out of Iraq as quickly as possible, and he says the only way to fix Medicare is the get the insurance companies out of it. It stands to reason that big companies raking off billions in profit don't do much to make health care any cheaper.
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> I heard his comments about that last week and none of it was ever quoted in the media. I wonder if the insurance companies control the media the way they do Congress and state legislatures?
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> Even if he can't get the nomination, I like some of the things he says.
> Howard

Kuninich is a goody guy, but he'll screw up foreign relations just as much as Bush did - he's intent on withdrawing from almost all if not all Free Trade Associations, which can pack some serious economic and thus foreign relations payback from Europe and Asia, both of which are on the rise(Asia has Japan and China; Europe has the EU). Not to mention repercussions from the other nations in NAFTA.

Of all the Democrats, in the running, I think Clark wouldn't screw up too badly. It's just that he's a sitting duck for assassins because of his numerous beliefs and ethnical background(assassins are almost always motivated either by money, power, or a calling from God/Hitler/generic racist).

Dean wants to repeal all tax cuts(don't know about Kuninich, but I'd assume he does as well). Now, I understand the U.S. has a huge deficit, but taxes are a bit too heavy as they are already.