Following the campaign, November 17
From Karin Caifa:
WARM RECEPTION
At Saturday night’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Des Moines, Kucinich got a warm reception from loyal Iowa followers, but one watching on C-SPAN couldn’t quite gauge if he’d won anyone else over. He took the stage to the strains of “Power to the People” and greeted emcee Hillary Rodham Clinton with something that made the senator throw back her head in laughter. Kucinich then took to charming the audience. Keeping with the news of the day, another downed helicopter in Iraq, he told the story of working as a copy boy for the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1965. He told of collecting the pictures of soldiers killed in Vietnam from their families, so the paper could use them for obituaries. “This is the moment,” he said, using his now-familiar campaign phrase, “where we can reconnect with the world community,” noting in a nod to the rest of the field, “every candidate is ready to go forward to create a new America.” Exiting the stage area he flashed the audience a peace sign.
ANOTHER CALL TO GET THE U.S. OUT
Kucinich made yet another plea to get the United States out of Iraq on Sunday, as the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq topped 400 this weekend: “Face the facts, Mr. President. You sent our troops there under false pretenses. Bring them home now and turn control over to the United Nations. Neither the world community nor the Iraqi people will support a U.S.-led occupation or an Iraqi government created by a U.S. occupation. In the name of decency, in the cause of democracy, and for the lives of our sons and daughters in uniform and of our brothers and sisters in Iraq, end this disastrous expedition today.”
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