Democratic presidential hopeful campaigns in Washington
Last time Kucinich came to Seattle, the Seattle Post Intelligencer provided no coverage at all. This time it did slightly better, grabbing this story off the AP newswire, although it buried it so well on the website that I had to use the search function to find it already the next morning. One would think that the PI could manage to get one of its own reporters over there, given that The Olympian sent some on an hour's drive to get the story. The PI sure isn't serving the public by this, so one wonders who it is serving.
The media should not make the voters' decision for them through selective coverage. It should provide information on all the candidates and their messages, so that the voters make the choice. Anyway, here's what the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published
Friday, November 7, 2003 · Last updated 7:28 p.m. PT
Democratic presidential hopeful campaigns in Washington
By JIM COUR
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SEATTLE -- President Bush needs to take the United States out of Iraq immediately, Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich told supporters Friday on the University of Washington campus.
"It's time to end of the occupation of Iraq," the four-term Ohio congressman said. "What does America stand for? Do we stand for our way or the highway? Or do we stand for peace and the end of war?"
His remarks were greeted by cheers from a sign-waving crowd of about 500.
"Peace is patriotic," one sign said. "Support our troops. Help them go AWOL," said another.
After briefly addressing his supporters outdoors in the UW campus's Red Square, Kucinich took his campaigning inside to Kane Hall, where the crowd joined him. He spoke, then answered supporters' questions.
An underdog in the race for the Democratic nomination, Kucinich, 57, said he hopes to make a strong showing in Washington's Democratic caucuses on Feb. 7. He said he was asking for the support of all Washington residents, conservatives as well as liberals.
"In order to take America in a different direction, we're going to have to get the votes from many different people," he said.
But he spent most of his time criticizing the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. That country had nothing to do with the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he said, and it was wrong for the United States to be in Iraq.
"We have to know the difference between defense and offense as a country," he said.
Earlier Friday, Kucinich appeared at a rally on the Western Washington University campus in Bellingham, about 80 miles north of Seattle. After his UW appearance, he headed to a King County Democratic Central Committee banquet.
An American Research Group poll released Thursday showed Howard Dean holding a 14-point lead over John Kerry in a poll of likely voters in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary
Others in the nine-candidate field remained in single digits. Wesley Clark, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman had 4 percent each, Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt had 3 percent. Kucinich, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton had 1 percent or less.
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